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A great mix of species from the Atlantic

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IFI Staff
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Co Clare waters saw skipper Luke Aston landing Pollack, ling and haddock last week.  Even though Thursday’s conditions were poor anglers still managed 2 blues to the boat the one below at about 25 lbs and a good fighting 65 pounder.

Carrigaholt - Aug 11th

Friday got wet and windy but there were still some good double figure Thornback Ray around.

Carrigaholt - DoubleSaturday was busy with Pollack and mackerel bashing and Sunday saw a return of the calm seas.  Luke says they got some very good fishing with a nice mix of species, including common and bottle nosed Dolphins, humpback and Minkie whales around the boat.  Great company!

Enjoying the Atlantic too was Séan Maguire’s Lady Gwen II who had good steady fishing last week with lots of mackerel around.  Friday was a little choppy for a group of Limerick lads but that didn’t stop them having great fun fishing.

Conditions improved on Saturday for fishing albeit there was a bit of a swell. They had some lovely drifts for whitefish, and picked up a few nice species. While Sunday was a beautiful day on the ocean with some fine Pollack over the 3kg mark.

Sean McGuire - Sat Aug 13th

Go fishing…

Clare Dragoon

Clare Dragoon is a LOCHIN 366 powered by 650HP engine that operates out of Carrigaholt Co. Clare.

I have some offers up on my web site www.fishandstay.com and if anybody is interested in putting a trip together please do get in touch. Also I Twitter from the boat on @fishandstay and try to update my face book page www.facebook.com/CarrigaholtSeaAngling fairly often!

To experience some of the best deep sea fishing available in Ireland contact Luke.
Telephone: +353 65 9058209 or +353 87 6367544
Email: lukeaston@eircom.net Web: www.fishandstay.com

Lady Gwen II

Fishing Adventures on Séan Maguire’s Lady Gwen II, a Lochin 33  M265Ti Perkins charterboat which operates 15 miles from Kilbaha, Carrigaholt, and Kilrush.

Whether you want to go to the Atlantic Ocean for a large selection of species, including different types of shark, or fish the estuary for ray conger tope etc, Fishing Adventures will cater for whatever fishing you desire.
Telephone: +353 (0) 877508758 or +353 (0) 894431182
Email: fishadven@gmail.com Web: www.fishingadventures.ie

 

Top marks for guide Sid who delivers the fish !

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IFI Staff
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Wexford guide Sid Jones has been a busy man lately.  In early April, IFI invited anglers to participate in the Bass Angling Survey and over 200 of you were good enough to complete the online survey forms.  On offer was the prize of a guided angling session and the lucky winner, Sean Martin from Clashmore, County Waterford, chose Sid Jones of Wexford as his preferred bass angling guide.

Sid tells us they had an excellent trip with great comradery and a few bass landed for each of them.

Sid Jones - while guiding Martin

Sean with one of his bass
Sean with one of his bass

On a previous trip he had a wonderful couple of days fishing with Murside and her husband Don from Michigan USA. The bass didn’t turn up but they did manage a 45lb specimen Tope for Murside on her first ever boat trip.

Sid Jones - Sid with Murside

Sid Jones - Murside

While out guiding Tony Murphy  16 bass in total ranging in size from 4lb to 9lb were landed with 10 bas over 6lb and every fish was returned. A fantastic session.

Tony's fishing session
Tony’s fishing session

Sid Jones - Tony's BassSid Jones - Bass August 2016

 

 

Top marks for great guiding Sid !

Sid Jones

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Sid Jones
Telephone: +353 (0)87 7734870
Email: fishingadventuresie@gmail.com Facebook: Fishing Ireland Guided Fishing

Well done to the boys in Green – BSI Sensas bring it home!

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IFI Staff
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BSI Sensas AC
BSI Sensas AC

NCFFI report:

BSI Sensas AC are the proud holders of the Bobby Smither’s Cup and the NCFFI Club Champions of 2016. Two Sensas Ireland teams represented the club in this weekend’s Club Championships which took place on the Grand Canal at Daingean. The two day match also serves to select the team to represent Ireland at the World Club Championships and is therefore fished to FIPS-ed rules.

The Leinster based club sponsored by Sensas Ireland entered the challenge presenting two teams, Green & Black fishing against Kingfisher AC, the Tubertini Match Club and Fermoy AC the current holders of the title who travelled to Italy to represent Ireland earlier this year. The Green team members Damien Maddock, Pat Bartley, Conor Browne, Fint Brennan and Matt Kemmy were victorious.

BSI Sensas AC
BSI Sensas AC

Gavin Walsh, team manager and sponsor who fielded the teams who would take first and second positions knew it was going to be a tough match with end pegs almost guaranteed to be section winners. And he was proved right with both end pegs winning A and E sections both days. The teams plan consisted of feeding one ball of ground bait the size of a golf ball with a pinch of pinkies and caster with chopped red worm fed on two lines. Hemp was fed at 13m looking for the better quality fish. This worked on Saturday when there was a wind blowing up the canal but not in the flat calm conditions of Sunday. Local knowledge prevailed as the water appeared coloured when in fact this was just the boggy canal bottom and the winning anglers fished 3 foot of line between the pole and float to prevent spooking the fish.

Team Results

Sensas Green 19 points

Sensas Black 26 points

Tubertini MC 32 points

Kingfisher AC 36 points

Fermoy AC 38 points

Sensas Green

BSI Sensas club was originally formed by Bobby Smithers who sadly passed away in 2008. The larger than life Bobby, Ireland only gold medalist in coarse angling created the club which is still run in his honour today and therefore brings with is a special meaning for this year’s winners.

The NCFFI congtratulates the winners and all those who took part, with thanks to the hosts BSI Sensas AC and the Castle Barna Golf Club.

NCFFI Club Championships

For more information please contact:

Gavin Walsh
00 353 87 613 9551
Helen Rainsford – NCFFI PRO
00 44 (0) 7711 607200
pro@ncffi.ie

 

Or visit:

www.ncffi.ie

www.facebook.com/coarseangling

Twitter: @ncffi

Best catches on Corrib localised as hatches slow

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myleskelly
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Declan Gibbon reports that hatches on Corrib in the week gone by were sparser than during the previous couple of weeks and any hatch of fly life was very localised and for brief periods…

On Saturday last Frank Reilly and Peter McGuinness enjoyed an excellent days fishing on the lower lake on dry fly landing eight trout for their efforts with the best fish being three pounds and the total bag was an estimated fifteen and a half pounds all sportingly released.

Shannon angler Glen O Connell enjoyed good fishing in the Portacarron area on Saturday last landing four fish.

On Wednesday last in the Oughterard area Kevin Molloy (087-9604170) & Harold O Toole enjoyed a day wet fly fishing landing four fish with the best fish being three and a half pounds.

On Tuesday last Michael Canny Carlow and friend fishing out of Kevin Molloys had four trout dapping with the best fish being five pounds.

Ted Wherry from Mayfly Lodge (087-4305957) Ballynalty Bay reports of Richard Robinson a visiting UK angler enjoying excellent fishing on Saturday last on dry hoppers in the area and catching a cock and hen fish on the same drift which he sportingly released.

Billy Kavanagh from Annaghdown Angling Club was on to us to in form us that they are hosting,

On Sunday next are hosting The Paddy Cunningham Cup,10.30 to 6.00, all legal methods, open individual competition.

Great ling and Pollack for German anglers in Kerry

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IFI Staff
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Bernd with his double
Bernd with his double

Siegy Grabher, skipper of Sioux out of Valentia Island reports on the fishing around the Skelligs and Valentia Island…

This week our regular guests from Wolfsburg in Germany caught many nice ling and also pollack, coalfish, pouting, grey gurnard, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, mackerels and sandeels. Bernd in paticular was working very hard and caught a lovely double of pollack. Nice catch!

Bernd with his double
Bernd with his double

Valentia Fishing - Ling - Aug 9thValentia Fishing - Ling - Aug 9th pic 2

Valentia Fishing - August 2016

Siegy Grabher 
Sioux

Go fishing…

Sioux

The charter boat “Sioux” is an Offshore 105 equipped with a 300 hp Ford Sabre Turbo Diesel engine. The season for most species is from April to the end of September; cod, pollock, ling, coalfish, whiting, haddock, mackerel, garfish, pouting, plaice, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, grey and red gurnard, seabass, mullet, skate, ray-thornback, conger eel, dogfish, bullhuss and blueshark (July – September)

35′ Offshore 105. 300 HP Ford
Valentia Island, Co. Kerry.
Tel: +353 66 9476420 or +353 87 6871267
Email: valentiafishing@eircom.net Website: www.valentiafishing.com

Doctor (51) whose body was found during Galway lake search was top cancer surgeon, Irish Independent

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myleskelly
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Tributes have been paid to the top cancer surgeon who died in a boating accident on Lough Corrib in Galway yesterday. The man has been named as Professor Aongus Curran (51), a married father of five who worked as a medical professor in UCD and in St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. Dr Curran’s body was found west of Camillaun Island, around four miles from where he set off in the Oughterard area…
Irish Independent, 13/08/16. Read the full article ‘Doctor (51) whose body was found during Galway lake search was top cancer surgeon‘.

More reports on this story

Angling Notes: wet weather doesn’t dampen spirits at championships, Irish Times

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myleskelly
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Angling Notes: wet weather doesn’t dampen spirits at championships
Angling Notes: wet weather doesn’t dampen spirits at championships, Irish Times

The 56th National Coarse Angling Championships took place recently in Ballybay, Co Monaghan. The market town, situated on the shores of Lough Major, was chosen for its accessibility to a number of angling venues that has the Dromore system on its doorstep. Recent wet weather dampened the spirits of some anglers, but 113 arrived to register in torrential rain at the Riverdale Hotel. This was to continue throughout the day; short sunny spells impacted on the weights of fish recorded…
Irish Times, 12/08/16. Read the full article ‘Angling Notes: wet weather doesn’t dampen spirits at championships‘.

Angling Notes: wet weather doesn’t dampen spirits at championships
Angling Notes: wet weather doesn’t dampen spirits at championships, Irish Times

Ballinamore leads the way with new tourist centre, Leitrim Observer

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myleskelly
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B allinamore leads the way with new tourist centre
B allinamore leads the way with new tourist centre, Leitrim Observer

The sun shone in Ballinamore last Friday at the official opening of the town’s Tourist, Angling and Information Centre. The centre which has turned a disused building into one of the most important facilities in town was made possible by a hard working committee. The group chaired by Publican Terry Shortt wanted to have a focal point in Ballinamore that will be able to inform all visitors to the town about the surrounding area, activities, facilities and much more…
Leitrim Observer, 12/08/16. Read the full article ‘Ballinamore leads the way with new tourist centre‘.

B allinamore leads the way with new tourist centre
B allinamore leads the way with new tourist centre, Leitrim Observer

Huge mystery shark species 'is longest-living vertebrate', Irish Independent

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myleskelly
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Huge mystery shark species 'is longest-living vertebrate'
Huge mystery shark species 'is longest-living vertebrate', Irish Independent
Some Greenland sharks, which can reach more than five metres in length, can reach an age of around 400 years, according to the new research. Writing in the journal Science they said the slow-moving giant had an average life expectancy of 272 years, surpassing other species known for long life, including turtles, tortoises and some whales…
Irish Independent, 11/08/16. Read the full article ‘Huge mystery shark species ‘is longest-living vertebrate’‘.
Huge mystery shark species 'is longest-living vertebrate'
Huge mystery shark species ‘is longest-living vertebrate’, Irish Independent

Change in Weather Helps Visiting Fly Anglers on the River Boyne

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David Byrne
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The very unsettled weather lately has made fly fishing tough on the River Boyne and the strong gusty winds in particular making dry fly fishing for trout very difficult indeed. However, yesterday saw some respite from the difficult conditions as the wind settled a bit. Vincent and Niamh fished with angling guide Peter Cunningham on the lower Boyne and had some nice trout fishing. Water levels are very low and clear in the river at the moment and there have been hatches of blue winged olives in the afternoons.

Fishing on the River Boyne

If you fancy a days guided fishing on the River Boyne with Peter Cunningham and the Boyne Valley Fishing Guides then why not give Peter a call on his mobile at 086 4682516 or email him at petercunningham3@gmail.com

Additional information on fishing with Boyne Valley Fishing Guides can be found at www.boynevalleyfishingguides.com

Additional information on fishing the lower Boyne can be found at http://www.rossinslaneangling.com/ and https://www.fishinginireland.info/trout/east/meath/boyne1.htm

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