Big pike from Upper Shannon for Kevin Lyons and guests

Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge Guest house in Longford Ireland was guiding Mark Whiteside and Kerry Hardy from Northern Ireland last weekend around the...
Alfredo Maatz

Aachen to Mullingar Ryanair style

Angling correspondent Michael Flanagan tells us: Alfredo Maatz dropped over from Aachen in Germany for a few days fishing. It was a kind of a...

Werner rolls back the years to land huge trout

The Irish Specimen Fish Committee recently received a claim in for a specimen brown trout and the story was so good we decided to...

Ideal conditions on the Munster Blackwater and salmon being caught

Recent rains made a bit of dirty flood on the Munster Blackwater but as visibility improved salmon started to be caught again... 09 June: Ger Fogerty...

French anglers have great week’s pike fishing at Melview Fishing Lodge in Longford

Melview Fishing Lodge reports... French pike anglers Camel, Quentin, Alain, Ltiffes, Mathieu, Sebastien, Pascal Jr, Loic and Pascal senior were over to stay with host...

108cm summer pike for Sandrine on the Shannon!

Vincent Moreau from Le Kingfisher Pike Lodge sent in a short report of a fine 108cm pike from the River Shannon. Sandrine Guillois from...

Irish Youths win Gold to claim unprecedented Four-in-a-Row Grand Slam

This report courtesy of the Irish Trout Fly Fishing Association: Despite torturous temperatures during the Youth International Fly Fishing Championships held in July 2024 on...

Blackwater "gin clear" and lovely fish caught and released

Waterlevels on the Munster Blackwater were slowly falling last week. the river jumped about 45cm with yesterday's rain but is dropping back again already... 15...

Big salmon to 18lb caught and released on the Drowes

Monday 30th April  to Sunday 13th May 2018 (2 weeks). Water levels were fair to good overall on the Drowes over the fortnight. The gauge...

Mariners brave storm Kathleen on the Mullet Peninsula

Despite storm Kathleen Killybegs Mariners had a great few days fishing the beaches around Belmullet in northwest Mayo including a cracking specimen sea trout....