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.

Tommy Dowd wins Clones Festival

The August bank holiday weekend saw anglers from England, Scotland and Ireland attend the annual coarse angling festival in Clones. This year brought some...
Winners of the 2017 Arva International Fishing Festival

Kevin Johnson wins Arvagh International with 57.960kg

Alice Murtagh from Inland Fisheries Ireland's Corelessmore office reports that the Annual 2017 Arvagh International Fishing Festival took place last week with 84 anglers...
Stephen McCaveny had good bursts of skimmers on Connolly's

Heavy weights at Kilbracken Club Anglers Challenge

The NCFFI reports that the fist Kilbracken Club Anglers Challenge saw great bags of fish weighed in with an average weight of 20lb per angler...
The group in attendance at the event.

Memorial Angling match on the Barrow huge success

The Annual Michael Lyons Memorial angling match for people with disabilities was held recently on the river Barrow in Bagenalstown, Co.Carlow and was a...

Good roach in the cold at Portumna – big June match to look forward...

Bitterly cold conditions is keeping many anglers from venturing out. Those that do are finding excellent Roach fishing. Other news is Portumna will...

Coarse and Pike fishing improving on the hot water stretch on the River Shannon...

  Paul Waghorn reports on recent fishing on the hot water stretch in Lanesborough   from http://www.lanesboroughangling.ie Monday 8th April One ...

Small fish and modest bags at recent Float Only Winter League match

28 anglers turned out for the latest match in the Float Only Winter League in mild and calm conditions. The match was fished on...

216 anglers competing in Waterways Ireland Classic Fishing Festival

The 2013 Waterways Ireland Classic Fishing Festival kicked off today on the shores of Lough Erne, with a very respectable entry of 216 anglers...

Coarse angling improves at Lanesborough

Very good coarse fishing was enjoyed by most anglers at Lanesborough over the past nine days. At a recent competition run by coarseandmatch.com Paddy Smullen...
Partners on the Greenway

Youth teams worldwide will fish in Inniscarra in 2017

Further to a meeting in Rome this November the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland has been  awarded the honour of hosting the FIPS-ed...