Coarse angling reports

Regular coarse angling reports from all around Ireland featuring match and festival updates, as well a general news from popular and less well known venues.

Great activity at Lough Gowna Festival !

Day Three and it is all happening! Roy Marshall flew in from Thailand to compete in the Gowna Festival and has part-paid for...
Playing a tench on the pole

Coarse fishing in Mullingar area producing some nice tench

Michael Flanagan ran into some coarse anglers on a stroll down the canal at the weekend... Up and coming young Mullingar Coarse Angler Cillian Fagan...
Ewan Weed

Top Anglers for a Top Match! Kingfisher AC Ramor Festival in County Cavan,...

The excellent fishing at the one day Open match on the Sunday preceding the festival gave us an idea of what was to come. ...
Kelvyn with a couple of bonus fish

Fishing going well for UK anglers staying at Melview Lodge, Longford.

Kelvyn, Brian, Jan and Dave who we reported on last week for their bream fishing changed tactics and went to fish on silvers, and...
Gordin Hill with a nice 7lb mirror Carp at the open

Great results from Oaklands open match

Adrian Browne of Oakland Lake Fishery in New Ross gives us the results of their recent open match: Results from open match. 1st ...

A cracking 5lb Bream for visiting angler at Templemore

Super fish caught at Templemore on Saturday.  A visiting angler to the town lake was delighted with his catch of a fine quality bream...
Overall winner Darren Greaney displays his catch from day two (143lbs 06 oz.)

Incredible 143lb bag from Templehouse Lake at the Ballymote Festival

Keith Coleman, Chairman Ballymote and District Angling Club, reports on the Ballymote Festival... Despite bad weather and a horrendous forecast 19 anglers turned out to fish...

Good bags of Bream and Hybrids in the Arva area

Alice Murtagh IFI reports: Arva Some visiting anglers visiting the Arva area report good bags of fish during the past week.  Nigel Thompson, Norich bagged 86lb...
Pre baiting is the key to big bags like this

Good Bream Fishing for UK Anglers Staying At Melview Lodge Longford.

Brothers Kelvyn and Brian along with friends Jan and Dave who have been fishing in Ireland for around 35 years were here once again...
Mick Hare, England

Bas Smith wins Belturbet Summer Angling Festival for a third time

With 1500kg of fish caught by 42 anglers over 4 days, the 2013 Belturbet Summer Angling Festival proved yet again to be a great...