Tommy Lawton reports on the Fermoy Coarse Angling Spring Festival May 2025…
While we got beautiful weather for our week, this was not ideal for angling, very hot, 23°C most days, with a very clear, hot river made for difficult and challenging fishing for the 35 anglers from the UK.
Fermoy Spring Festival
Monday 12th Matt Hudson got off to great start winning with 16lb 12ozs, 2nd Neil Richards with 15lb, 3rd Dave Limbert with 12lb 8ozs.
Wednesday 14th 1st Ant White 12lb 12ozs, 2nd John Moroz 10lb 12ozs and 3rd was Nigel Hirst with 10lb 4ozs.
Friday 16th 1st Nick Chaffer with 15lb, 2nd Dave Miles 8lb, 3rd Simon Heaton 7-10.
The Overall Winner Fermoy Spring Festival 2025 is Nottingham angler Dave Limbert with 29lb, 2nd Nick Chaffer, Leeds with 28lb 15ozs, 3rd Ant White, Nottingham with 28lb 10ozs.
The John Whitehouse Memorial Trophy Pairs was won by Ant White and Nigel Hirst with 51lb 6ozs.
River 2 Day
Dave Limbert did the double by also winning the River 2 Day on Tuesday 13th and Thursday 15th with 15lb 6ozs, 2nd Tom Donnelly with 13lb 4ozs, 3rd Ken Pacey 12lb 1oz.
Inniscarra 2 Day
The Inniscarra 2 Day was won by Dave Micklewright with 32.430kg, 2nd Nigel Hirst 26.990kg, 3rd Ian Daly with 21.990kg.
Congratulations to Dave Limbert winner of the Fermoy Spring Festival 2025 and congratulations of all the other winners as well, we thank all the anglers who competed and who continue to support our festival in Fermoy.
We thank our sponsors The Cross Bar and the Avondhu Bar, Land and Fishery owners, Horan family, Walsh family, and Fermoy Game Fishing, we thank Kipper with the Wheelie Boat and all who helped during the week. We also thank Fermoy Rowing Club once again for keeping the rowing boats off the river while the fishing was going on.
We would like to especially thank Brian and Siobhan Enwright and their family of the Cross Bar. Brian has been our main sponsors of festivals for the last 25 years and he will now soon retire. He recognised the huge economic value of Angling Tourism in Fermoy and was a staunch support of our angling festivals over the years. We wish Brian well in the future and we thank you so much for all you have done for Fermoy CAC festivals and the anglers that visit our town, thanks Brian.
Go fishing…
Fermoy Coarse Angling Association
Fermoy, Co. Cork
Contact: Tommy Lawton
Email: tommylawton4@gmail.com
National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI
The National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI has been representing coarse angling in Ireland since 1962, the federation was formed by a group of angling clubs who foresaw the need for governance and a presence on the international match scene. The founding clubs were Fermoy AC, Prosperous AC, Cavan AC, Royal Enfield CAC and Ballinamore AC who were at this time facilitating the huge numbers of visiting anglers coming to match fish working hard to promote angling tourism which continues today.
Coarse angling in Ireland is closely linked to tourism due to the fine selection of natural venues from the North to the South of the island utilised by anglers from home and overseas. Domestic championships have as a result always been open to the visiting angler and the festivals run by our clubs continue to attract large numbers from overseas. For details of future events please visit www.ncffi.ie
