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.

Team Ireland U20 rank a respectable 8th at Worlds

This report from the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland: After the final leg of the World Youth Angling Championships, our U20 squad secured 8th place...

A Cold and Chilly Day for Ballybay Angling Association Knock-Up on Lough Sillan

Liam O'Brien and Sheila Bromley report that 18 anglers turned out to fish the Ballybay Angling Association knock up on Lough Sillan on Sunday 26th...

Father and Son team win NCFFI Commercial Pairs Championships

Well known Father and Son combination, Adrian Browne and Youth International, John Browne recently won the NCFFI Commercial Pairs Championships fished at Oaklands. Congratulations to...
Larry Kelly with the largest of 4 Tench caught this evening.

Big tench and good roach at Lanesborough, huge carp spotted

Paul Waghorne reports that the cold weather has slowed down the activity at Lanesborough but there has been some good fishing there in recent...
Rimantas Kondrackas.

Alan Larkin wins all round at Lough Sillan Easter competitions

There were 32 anglers fishing CM Lakelands' h pre-Easter Open on Lough Sillan on Good Friday. Anglers reported some decent fishing with some nice bream landed.  Some pegs...

Cootehill Fishing Championship won by Mark Pollard

The hugely successful Cootehill Fishing Championships run by the Cootehill Tourism Group in County Cavan This is Cavan has been won by visiting angler...
L to R Neil Mallinson Neil Parkinson Kevin Johnson

Great weights in challenging conditions at Arvagh competition

Alice Murtagh from the IFI Corlesmore office reports: The annual Arva International Coarse Fishing Competition took place last week with 72 anglers taking part. Venues...
Brian Bohan with some early season tench

Conditions conspire against coarse anglers in Leitrim

Fishing has being  very slow the last few weeks due to the cold north winds and temperatures as low as  -2C on some...

Cold and ice makes for tough fishing at Oaklands

Adrian Browne reports from Oaklands where its all to play for in the Winter League… 27 Jan: Very cold and very windy at Oakland's today for the...

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...