Angling effort is well down on the Moy now, compared to this time last year and only in the region of 100 salmon were reported for week-ending 04 September.
Only 4 salmon were caught in the Ballina Fishery. Bernard Breslin had one fish of 5.5lb on worm on the Rdige Pool while Pat Kane, Donegal, had 3 salmon on spinner, 2 of which he released. The middel reaches fished a little better, particularly around Foxford and some fisheries, like Mount Falcon, Knockmore and Rinanney had catches into the mid to high teens.
Bernard Breslin Dublin 1 Sal. 5.5 lbs on worm
The East Mayo Anglers reported 12 salmon caught, 5 of which were released. Reg Bishop and Celia Fry, UK.both had fish in the 3lb bracket on worm.
With more heavy forecast for the weekend its not likely fishing will be much better next week.
This nice 2 ½ pounder caught by Dominic Conlon at Massbrook, fell to a Green Peter
Declan Cooke reports that amid very mild and damp weather, Lough Conn continued to produce excellent trout angling over the last few weeks with both wet and dry sedges accounting for many of the fish. The daddy-long-legs also produced some great angling.
This nice 2 ½ pounder caught by Dominic Conlon at Massbrook, fell to a Green Peter
Walter & Susan Byrne from Edenderry Co. Offaly had a fantastic week reporting over 30 trout on various flies, mainly in the area from Cormorant rocks to Rinmore point. Ian Wise, fishing out of Cloonamoyne also had some great days with various clients using a variety of dry sedge patterns in sizes 12 – 14
Ronnie Chambers from the Northern Ireland had 6 good trout including one of 3.25lbs in the Victoria Bay area on a dry daddy. All fish were returned. Steven Browne enjoyed excellent sport with dry sedges at the Cormorant rocks.
Padraig Traynor landing a lively trout near Castle Island on L. Conn
In the recently fished Paddy McDonald cup 22 anglers reported 22 trout over 13 inches as well as numerous smaller ones. Sean Goulding was first with 3 trout weighing 3.52lbs. Padraig Traynor came second, also with 3 trout weighing 3.21lbs. In third place was Mick O’Toole with three trout weighing 3.1lbs. Best fish was caught by Colm Mc Andrew at 1.80 lbs.
Last cast of the Day. A nice 1.5lb trout from Massbrook about to be released
In the last week, mainly in the Castlehill to Browne’s bay area, James Cooper and Jonathan Dibble from Sussex had 13 trout over 2 days averaging 1.25 to 1.5 lbs. Most fish were caught on sedge patterns. Richard and Michael Commons from Dublin had 6 fine trout in one day around Massbrook. Amongst these was a 3lb fish which fell to a green Peter.
There was great fishing on Lough Derg last week. Jerome, fishing with Paul Bourke of Ireland Angling Tours, had an exciting couple of days pike fishing bringing 20 really good fish to the boat.
20 pike over 2 days for Jerome last week
The good fishing continued over the weekend. One angler fishing with TJ’s Angling Centre had 13 fish with the biggest just hitting the 1m mark. Best of the fishing was in the morning during the heavy rain. TJ’s anglers continued to get good fish in the early part of this week as pike to 94cm were landed.
13 pike to 100cm were caught by this lucky angler on Saturday
Paul Bourke and Co also continued to get lots of good this this week. Amongst the lucky anglers was Christian who had his 3rd pike over 1m (this trip) yesterday.
Christian with his 3 100cm plus pike of the week
Anglers fishing with Pierre Monjarret had lots of 100cm plus pike in the last few days. Luca Foroni and Claudio Giagnoni 15 pike earlier this week. The best ones were 93cm, 96cm, 96cm, 99cm, 99.5cm 103cm 105 and 108cm. On Friday Andrea had two excellent fish in the morning -106cm and 108.5cm. Both put up super fights. The previous week anglers Diego and Matteo had 8 pike over 1m, the biggest making 115cm!
Herman and Rob
Hermann Molenaar believes that no holiday in Ireland is complete without a fishing trip. Kira and Rob Bö through so to and took the change to chase pike on Derg. Kira got her first pike ever, screaming in delight and excitement! The couple landed 6 fish and lost a few good fish which ran at full speed into the weed beds and escaped.
Kira’s first pike
Go fishing…
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TJ’s Angling centre arranges trips and offers support to anglers visiting the Lough Derg area. All our guides are local anglers with a detailed knowledge of Lough Derg and its surrounds. All equipment needed can be supplied or if you prefer to use your own, our guides will be happy to offer advice on methods and baits to use, full or half day trips are available, contact us for prices and available dates.
Pierre Monjarret moved to Ireland in 2007 to pursue his dream as a guide. It is now many years since he cast his first line on Lough Derg. Throughout that time his passion for this lake has never faded, always something new to learn, new techniques to develop and challenges that remind you why you love catching big fish!
Herman Molenaar offers guided pike fishing on Lough Derg. Specialises in the Dutch market. Boat hire, tackle shop and accommodation also available.
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The Fishmaniak’s last pike/perch competition was held on Garadice Lake last weekend. Fished as a 2 day event the first session took place on Saturday evening. Being a catch and release competition each team wa issued a club measuring tape so that each fish captured could be measured. Because of the terrible weather – heavy rain – just few fish were caught. On Sunday with better weather condition we managed to catch more fish. Overall 18 enthusiastic contestants took part and between them managed to catch 25 pike and 17 perch over 25cm . The biggest pike was caught by Sebastian Kisiel – lovely pike – 93cm of length, the biggest perch was caught by Tomas Gausmonas – 34cm.
Sebastian Kisiel had the biggest pike -93cm
The result of the competition are as follows:
1 st palce Aivaras Zalepugas and Mantas Selickas – 11 pike and 5 perch – 851,5 points
2 nd place – Henryk Walkowiak and Cezary Kowalski – 3 pikeand 3 perch – 313 points
3 th place – Tomas Gausmonas ans Piotras Aleksandravicius – 3 pike and 1 perch – 255 points
4 th – Sebastian Kisiel and Lukasz – 1 pike and 4 perch – 253,5 points
5 th – Arunas Sinkievicius ans Aivaras Petrikas – 2 pike and 2 perch – 204 points
6 th place – Marcin Wrzesinski and Beata Kielak – 2 pike and 2 perch – 187,5 points
7 th place – Pawel Orlow and Karol Zjawinski – 2 pike 108 points.
8 th plase Edgars Nalivaiko and Andris Preilis – 1 pike – 59 points.
The Fishmaniaks want to give a big thanks to Tarczynski shop and Katarzyna Stepien who provided the delicious food for competition Barbeque.
This Polish Fishing Club was founded in the fall of 2008, the club brings together anglers residing in the Ireland – to promote sportsmanship and basic principle Catch & Release.
Polski klub wędkarski powstał na jesieni 2008r założycielem oraz pomysłodawca jest Paweł Ładniak , klub zrzesza wędkarzy przebywających na wyspach , działania klubu są proste – propagowanie sportowej rywalizacji oraz podstawowa zasada Catch & Release .
Greg Latour of Tir na Spideog reports on the pike fishing on Lough Allua where the pike are taking well…
02 September: 11 pike landed today for my happy dutch customers , Lough Allua is fishing very well . All methods seemed to work today, trolling, jigging, dead baiting and vertical fishing all produced pike . Even colours didn’t seem to matter .
On of 11 pike caught on Lough Allua last Friday
My new Savage gear Line Thru Roach didn’t get a touch though. I think it will have to rest in my box till spring as it didn’t dive to 5 meters and that’s where the pike are at the moment …
105cm pike for Tony Mees
07 September: I have certainly fished on nicer days as fog and persistent drizzle pestered us all day. My dutch customer and his friend didn’t mind the weather as we caught 6 pike on our trip with the longest pike measuring 105 cm and a personal best for Toni Mees.
Tir na Spideoga Fishing Lodge is situated on the shores of Lough Allua, about 5km from Inchigeelagh Village, overlooking a narrow but long water system, also called the ‘ Inchigeelagh lakes’. Lough Allua ranks amongst the top pike fishing waters of Ireland, regularly producing pike of 20 and 30 lbs. and still it is one of the least known pike venues on the island .
A guided day on the lake for 2 anglers costs as little as €80 – plus €40 for the boat hire. No permit is required
Some really good bream were caught at the NADAFEST
Eddie Long, NADA PRO, reports on the Naas and District Anglers NADAFEST…
The Naas and District Anglers NADAFEST took place on the 26th 27th and 28th of August 2016 in the Shantonagh/Ballybay area of Co.Monaghan. We had nine anglers up for this weekend match which was to take place on three different lakes in the area, Ballytrain, Schoolhouse and Whites lake in Ballybay. Three anglers would fish a lake each day and we’d rotate onto a different lake the following day and so on. We fished this match with one dropper meaning each anglers two best weights over the festival would be totted up and their worst days weight dropped.
On Whites lake myself and Paul chose to start on the pole with Padraig electing to use feeder only. I put in five balls of groundbait laced with caster and chopped worm at the start but didn’t get so much as a bite so I went out on the feeder at thirty turns but the bites were hard to hit. With about two hours gone in the match I had only about three or four small fish in my net all caught on the feeder but then the wind died off and the fish turned up on the feeder for both me and Paul. It became a fish race between myself and Paul, he’d catch one then so would I but he definitely had a better stamp of fish than me and with about and hour to go I noticed fish rolling on my pole line so imediately I went out on the pole and straight away I was into a decent fish. I was using a double six Preston original slip and was able to bully these hybrids away from the reeds either side of me and into my net. It was definitely gonna be a close finish between myself and Paul and I could see the beads of sweat collecting on Paul’s brow but at 8pm the all out was called and the weigh in began. Padraig had a bitch of a peg with snags in front of him and had been losing feeders and hook lengths so he wasn’t in the running for this one but still managed a decent weight of 4.750kgs. I had 9.600kgs and Paul beat me with a fine weight of 10.300kgs. No bream for us but some decent hybrids and some decent roach and perch. At this point word had come back to us that some decent bags of bream had been caught on Ballytrain and Schoolhouse. It’s at this stage that I’d like to point out that both those lakes had been prebaited the day before the match and unfortunately Whites had not but we weren’t sore at all by this clear advantage, not in the slightest.
Some really good bream were caught at the NADAFEST
In the end Dan Campbell won the NADAFEST with 3 lake wins the last of which was very impressive indeed, 17.900kg caught on the 4meter whip and a total weight of 32.200kgs Brilliant result and a well deserved winner.
Second place was Paul McLoughlin with 2 lake wins and a total weight of 30.750kg and Padraig O Riordan was third with 1 lake win and a total of 28.450kgs.
Ollie Doyle had 2 lake wins and Owen Lynch had one lake win.
The Naas & District Anglers Club was set up on the 31 August 2012. Our Club is a Social club. The waters around Naas are Home to brown trout, salmon, eels, pike, perch, bream, rudd, tench. Naas and District Anglers are dedicated towards getting kids involved in the sport of angling.
Club Members are responsible for restocking and ensuring that all angling byelaws are complied with.
Membership of the club is always open and we welcome new members with open arms.
Inniscarra hosts a number of festival and competitions at this time of year. The results of the last number of competitions run by Inniscarra TDLare below…
Lennox Cup 2016
George Knight had 13kg on day 1 and finished with 31.54kg to finish 14th overallSome nice perch at the Lennox Cup
Congratulations to Marco Hoffman who wins the Lennox Cup this year. Its been a great few days fishing once again when we have enjoyed the company of many of our Dutch friends. Another close run festival with fantastic sponsorship of €1000 from Jackie Lennox Chip Shop
JOHN BOHANE WINS THE VINTNERS CUP 2016
George Knight had 13kg on day 1 and finished with 31.54kg to finish 14th overall
One of the closest festivals in years with just 600g between the top four. Congratulations to the winner John Bohane with 44.620, 2nd Robert Bell with 44.360 and 3rd was Alister Ogilvie with 43.880.
Day three saw Adrian Freeman wins with 16.720, 2nd was Mike Stone with 12.560 and 3rd was Alister Ogilvie with 12.540.
Earlier this year event organiser Tommy Lawton responded to the outcry from feeder anglers from across the UK and Europe after the success of the World Feeder Championships in 2014, and created Feederfest Ireland. With the 120 peg match already a sell-out preparations are well under way and this week the perpetual trophy and winners cup was collected.
Enda Fields from Emy & District Anglers was in touch to let us know that youths based in Emyvale, Co. Monaghan are going for a day outings to Glenkeen trout fishery in Aughnacloy Northern Ireland on Sunday September 25th from 2.30pm.
If any club, individuals etc like to meet up with the Emy & District youths, come along for some fun & meet new friends . Cost for youths is £8.00
The sun was shining down into the water and I could clearly see that there were a number of fish darting around between the weeds. They were very small fish and I wished I had a pinkeen net to catch one and identify it. Then one of them swam towards the surface and turned, giving me a look at its profile. A stickleback… Irish Examiner, 06/09/16. Read the full article ‘Stickleback had me hooked‘.
