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Good salmon fishing continues on Munster Blackwater

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myleskelly
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Connie plays a salmon on an 8 foot rod
Connie plays a salmon on an 8 foot rod

Connie Corcoran reports from the Ballyduff Bridge fishery…

28 July: Delighted to see John Curtin catching a lovely fresh 6lb salmon today with us at Ballyduff Bridge.

30 July: Well done to Tony Murtagh catching a lovely 6lb fish today at Ballyduff Bridge well done Tony.

31 July: Mr Tony Murtagh does it again with a nice fish of around 4lbs at Ballyduff Bridge returning the fish safely also well done to Pat Kennedy also catching and releasing a fish also at Ballyduff Bridge.

Jason's fish goes back with a splash
Jason’s fish goes back with a splash

01 August: Jason had a nice fish from our Ballincurrig beat today and yet again Jason released his salmon.

Connie plays a salmon on an 8 foot rod
Connie plays a salmon on an 8 foot rod

02 August: Well done to Stephen Hayes hooking and landing 2 fish today at Ballyduff Bridge one of 4lbs and another of 6lbs both on spinner. I had a lovely fish of around 6lbs on a 8ft hexagraph fly rod something I’ve been told only a few can do…  Water level is now up 3ft and quite dirty should be good in the coming days.

Go Fishing…

Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery

Ballyduff Bridge fisheries control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater. The Ballyduff Bridge beat is almost a mile long offering a huge variety of water and is particularly suited to fly fishing. Upstream near the village of Ballyhooley (a few miles outside the town of Fermoy, Cork) we have two beats. The Ballincurrig Beat is one of the most beautiful locations along the river and has an excellent piece of fly water flowing into a deep pool. Just downstream on the opposite bank we have a short but productive beat, called Magners. This beat fishes also well in high water.

Contact  Connie Corcoran:
Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.

Mobile: +353 (0)87 6918230.
Web: www.blackwatertroutandsalmon.ie

The Munster Blackwater…

For more information about salmon fishing on the Munster Blackwater please see the following page with a list of all the fisheries

Clones Festival a "Bream" come true!

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myleskelly
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Julian Kendick
Julian Kendick

A bream delight for anglers at the 2016 Clones Angling Festival…
John Potters of Lisbellaw, Co. Fermanagh hooked onto a bream shoal on the first day of the competition with 36 fish for 163lbs and a likely match record weight this year. To his left was Mick Hare a festival regular who takes part during his annual two week holiday to Ireland from the North of England who was delighted with his 146lb catch, a personal best in Ireland. These first day weights were to be difficult to beat over the next few days but it made for some good competition for the top five places with the leaders eager to hold onto their positions.

John Potter
John Potter

The four day event is well attended by visiting anglers from England and this year saw 11 out of the 37 travel over for the competition on the prolific waters of County Monaghan fishing a variety of venues by daily rotation. The pole and feeder fishing venues included Corkeeran, Bairds Shore and Bream Rock on the Dromore system and by special permission from the Tyrone Guthrie centre the beautiful Annaghmekerrig Lake at Newbliss. TheCreighton Hotel Clones was the base for the anglers where bait from Irish Bait and Tackle Limited was available to buy on site as the competitors made their daily draw returning each and returned to check out the results.
Julian Kendick
Julian Kendick

The anglers were met with warm but showery conditions for the four days over the bank holiday weekend with the fishing tough but enjoyable. The festival as usual provided mixed bags with good nets of quality roach, 4 and 5lb bream and tench and hybrids and perch in smaller numbers. The top weights by venue were;
Annaghmekerrig 163lbs 4oz
Bream Rock 38lbs 5oz
Bairds Shore 36lbs 4oz
Corkeeran 33lbs 12oz
The Festival Winners
The Festival Winners

Congratulations to the Festival Winners;
1st John Potters 201lbs 2oz
2nd Mick Hare 168lbs 14oz
3rd Mark Theedom 144lbs 13oz
4th Tommy Dowd 96lbs 12oz
5th Bas Smith 84lbs 6oz
The organisers would like to thank everyone who took part in the festival this year with special thanks to the landowners, Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the staff and management at the Creighton Hotel, Clones.
Due to the restricted number of match venues in the area this festival has limited entry visit www.clonescoarseanglers.net for more about fishing in the area and details of next years event to take place from the 4th to 7th of August 2017.
Report courtesy of Clones Coarse Angling Club

NCFFI

Coarse Angling Club are affiliated to the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland and are members of the Angling Council, the National Governing Body for coarse and predator angling. www.ncffi.ie

Not many salmon reported from the Laune last week

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myleskelly
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Billy Downes tells us that as of Tuesday 2nd August Laune raising slightly after Monday’s rain. The river was at 1.1m and still rising. It was carrying a good bit of colour from the Gweestin but this should be cleared by now. News of fish being caught or met is scarce enough despite a good angling effort.

That said a few anlgers met success including Dr Jim O’Sullivan who has become a recent convert to fly fishing. Jim met three fish on the fly in two visits to the Laune in recent days. He managed to land two of them. Tony Murphy had a good fish at Johnston’s on Saturday.Visiting angler Matze Tamme from Germany who was fishing with his friend Matt Standen had a nice peal on worm on Friday and John Turner had a nice fresh fish of 5 lbs at Heffernan’s.

To have a chance of a pull: Fish late, fine, small (trout flies – Alexandra ) and far off with a trout rod. Dr James O’Sullivan had success with grilse and sea trout in last week during the evenings with his trout rod.

Billy Downes,  Secretary
Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Association

Go fishing…

Day permits are the same as last year €25 to the end of July and €35 for the months of August and September. Be sure to display your permit on the dash of your car with the date and permit number visible and have the other part with you because you will be asked by members to identify yourself as a legitimate ‘One Day Member’ / Permit Holder.

Web:  www.launeanglersfishing.com
Facebook: Facebook Laune Anglers 
Email: billydownes@hotmail.com

More about the Laune…

https://fishinginireland.info/salmon/southwest/laune.htm 

 

32 species at Martin O'Brien Festival in Cork Harbour

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myleskelly
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Ray to 18lb were landed
Ray to 18lb were landed

Tony Tait reports that the Martin O’Brien Festival, fished over the long weekend, was unusual this year as they had 3 days of good weather giving the anglers unrestricted fishing. A total of 32 different species of fish were caught over the 3 days.
In the interests of conservation all congers and rays were witnessed, photo’d and released.
Tony want to say a big thank you to the organisers Catherine Donnelly, Sue Tait, Kieran O’Keeffe, (Arthur Beechey AKA The Welsh Wizard) And Dave McCarthy. Also to Martin and Imelda Budden and their staff of Pepperstacks Bistro Rosies Bar.

MARTIN O’BRIEN MEMORIAL TROPHY

August

FINAL CLASSIFIED RESULTS

POSITION

BOAT NAME

SPECIES

WEIGHT

1

 SCREAMING REELS

            29

37.03

2

 PREDATOR II

            27

37.25

3

 ESCAPADE

            26

27.05

4

 NATIONWIDE

            25

23.27

5

 REEFER

            20

14.99

6

 SHORT FUSE

            19

22.82

7

 SEA WITCH

            19

20.24

Last week charter Skipper Donnie Geary was getting some good fishing for the anglers on John Boy…
On Sunday week last with a group from Cobh sea angling club we fished the peaks east of Power head and had a good catch of Pollack 4/5 lbs. and plenty of Conger. On Monday with a my old school pal John English with family and friends we went south and caught plenty of Whiting, a few cod, gurnards, Ling and Conger. On Tuesday the first of 4 days with a regular group from England, we again went to the eastern marks. The fishing was excellant for the first few hours with plenty of fine Pollack and about a dozen conger, but as the tide slacked so did the fish and the rest of the day was slow.
On Wednesday we went for species, drifting south of Daunt buoy we managed about 9 species even though the fishing was slow. After lunch we moved east to South of Cork buoy and caught some very nice Cod, Pollack, Ling and whiting. finishing with 14 species. Thursday we again went south and stopped for bait about 3 miles from the point, and were surprised to hit a lot of pollack, ling and Cod. We fished the area for most of the day until the wind picked up and we headed for the shelter of White bay where we had a nice Thornback and plenty of Dogs.

Ray to 18lb were landed
Ray to 18lb were landed

On Friday we headed for a wreck south east of the harbour and after a few slack drifts we dropped the anchor fishing was slow to start and a lot of tackle was lost, but we succeeded in catching 15 Ling and 10 conger but surprisingly not one pollack. We finished the day on the bank where we landed 5 rays biggest 18lb.
Also out last week from Cork Harbour was Crosshaven’s Wreckfisher which had skate and some really good looking coalfish.
Sakte
Skate

Coalfish
Coalfish

Go fishing…

John Boy

Geary Angling Services is owned and operated by Donal and Mary Geary. We offer Shark, Wreck and Reef Fishing for Blue Shark, Conger, Ling, Pollack, Turbot and Rays among others. Based out of Cork Harbour gives the John Boy access to the cod grounds towards East Cork. East Cork Fishing is some of the best on the south coast of Ireland. Geary Angling Service’s operate from the Historic Town of Cobh which is the second most natural  Harbour in the world, and is just a short drive from Cork Airport, and also from Cork City via Rail and Bus. The Rosslare Ferry port is just 2.5 hours drive. We also pick up in Monkstown, Crosshaven, East Ferry and Cork City by prior arrangement.
Donal Geary
Base: Cobh Operational area: 30 miles out of Cork Harbour
Tel: +353 (0)21 4812167
Email: seaangling@esatclear.ie  Web: www.sea-fishing-ireland.com

Wreck Hunter II

Sails from Crosshaven. 10.7m twin engined Wildcat catamaran. 25 Knots cruising speed. Licensed and insured for 12, to 40 miles. Wreck, reef and Shark fishing. Rod hire available. Full entertainment system, DVD etc for cruising to and from the action.
Address: 89 East Avenue, Park Gate, Frankfield, Cork.
Telephone: +353 (0)21 4362392 or +353 (0)87 2302362
Email: joelynch@iol.ie Web: www.wreckhunter.ie

Plenty more fish in the sea at Courtmacsherry

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myleskelly
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News from Courtmacsherry is that the fishing was very good the last week and over the weekend with plenty of good size blues, Specimen whiting, near specimen hake, haddock and stone bass.

Ling around specimen size are being caught from deeper marks
Ling over 20lb are being caught from deeper marks

 

But that’s not all, conger to 35lbs, several Ling over 20lbs, Bull Huss to 14lbs, good pollack fishing on light tackle are also being caught with a few cod showing for good measure.

Blue shark
Blue shark tagged and ready to go

There are thornbacks on the inshore ground with fine dabs and plaice and in the evenings good bass fishing on the estuary.

Kees Marteijn with a nice bass
Kees Marteijn with a nice bass

Mark Gannon
Courtmacsherry Angling

Make a booking

Courtmacsherry Sea Angling Centre is one of Irelands Premier Angling Centres based in the picturesque village of Courtmacsherry located only 30miles from Cork International Airport on the West Cork coast between the Old head of Kinsale and the Seven Heads peninsula. Our purpose built Sea angling and selfdrive boats offer the sea angler the ultimate in safety and comfort.Sea Angling in Courtmacsherry produces good results both for the offshore charter angler,the selfdrive angler for inshore fishing or the wreck enthusiast.
Web: www.courtmacsherryangling.ie
Email: csal@iol.ie 
Telephone: +353 (0)23 8846427 or +353 (0)86 8250905

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Good run of sea trout continues at Costello and Fermoyle

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myleskelly
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Fishery manager Terry Gallagher reports on fishing for the week of 20 July – 03 August…

Water levels at Costello remained close to optimum as regular showers maintained the system in good order. John Maher and friends fished for 3 days and were very pleased with the 68 sea trout and 6lb salmon they notched up during their visit. Most of the sea trout caught were recorded as fresh, so the run continues!

Padhraic McDonagh fished the middle river where he landed 6 sea trout and commented that all the fish were in excellent condition and all fresh. Regular visitor Rene Lachemaer also fished river beats 2 & 3 and he too landed 6 sea trout.

Eamon O’Brien treated his grandchildren to an afternoon picnic on the famous “Rock Hotel” on Glenicmurrin. In between courses Eamon still managed an impressive 10 sea trout.  James Egan and Derek Veitch didn’t fare badly when they landed their 8 sea trout on Glenicmurrin.

 29/07/16 to 03/08/16

Unfortunately the salmon kept their heads down for the most part over the last week but not so the sea trout with some very notable catches recorded. Not least of which occurred when Robert Kelly and William Hamilton took a day on Glenicmurrin Lough and landed 24 sea trout, the best just under 2lbs 8ozs. What was even more remarkable is that this was their first time to fish the lake. They fished the upper lakes the following day catching a further 11 sea trout and lost a salmon.

Glenicmurrin fished consistantly well over the week with Eamon O Brien landing 16 sea trout and regular visitor Larry O Reilly 10. Pete Westwater returned for his annual visit to Glenicmurrin and notched up 13 sea trout. First time visitors, Dave Flynn & Andy Wojnicki were very happy with the 7 sea trout they caught as were brothers Richard and Hugh McGuire who recorded 8. Hugh was very unlucky not to add at least 1 salmon to his catch for the day after losing 2 fresh fish on River Beat 1 that evening.

Not that Glenicmurrin was the only star of the week as Muckinagh Lough produced 18 sea trout for a very pleased Eamon O Brien and Clogher Lough provided 16 fish for Sean Costello and Sean Bollustrum. After 2 relatively disappointing seasons for sea trout, 2016 is shaping up very nicely indeed.

To book fishing contact Terry on 087 2399988 or email gallaghere.terence@gmail.com

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July productive for sea trout anglers at Lough Inagh

By
Kevin Crowley
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Jungle Alex
Jungle Alex tied by colin Folan

Fishery manager Colin Folan reports that water levels remained good during July, however the weather did not help the fishing with humid and thundery spells.  In total 19 salmon, 153 sea trout and 40 brown trout were recorded for the month.  The catches were split fairly evenly between the river beats and lake.

Jungle Alex
Jungle Alex tied by colin Folan

Notable catches for July include Denis Murphy and Michael Heery (Dublin) who fished Inagh for two days and landed 13 sea trout to 1.5lbs and 3 grilse to 6lbs, mostly on a size 10 Green Dabbler.  William Hamilton (Dublin) fished Inagh for a day and landed 9 sea trout on a Connemara Black and Gold Dabbler.

Andy Bowman (Scotland) fished with locals Colin Folan and Kevin Crowley for a day on the river beats and they caught 10 sea trout and two fresh grilse (released) on Blue Delphi’s and a Silver Doctor.

Another notable catch was Ronan Power (USA) who fished Inagh for a couple of days without much action due to the scorching conditions, but managed a cracking brown trout of 9lbs on a Fr. Ronan fly.

Go fishing…

These two Loughs, Derryclare and Inagh, lie in the lovely Inagh Valley with the Twelve Pins (Bens) of Connemara rising steeply to the west, and the Maumturk Mountain range to the east. There are two short connecting rivers, which contain four river beats. The fishery has spring salmon, grilse, sea trout and large indigenous brown trout. There are three sets of ‘Butts’ or long fishing piers, built out onto Derryclare Lough for the anglers convenience. There are no boats available on Derryclare Lough and all the fishing is done from the Butts and the bank.  Lough Inagh Fishery is fly only, and normal fishing hours are 930am – 7pm. The river beats are rotated on a half day basis. The manicured river banks, and cosy fishing huts provide comfort for anglers of all ages and fitness.

Bookings and info from hotel reception 095 34706 or www.loughinaghlodgehotel.ie

World Cup results in on Mask

By
Kevin Crowley
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Lough Mask World Cup
World Cup winner Thomas O'Loughlin with (l-r): Sponsor Paul Duffy, World Cup President Joe Cusack, Winning Boatman Patrick Molloy, Thomas O’Loughlin, Boat manager Ronan Cusack, World Cup PRO Denis Kelleher

Ronan Cusack reports that Monday evening saw a climax to the 2016 World Cup flyfishing Championships on Lough Mask as 460 anglers battled it out for the much sought after World Cup trophy. Conditions on the final day were perfect, with soft winds and plenty of cloud cover as the 120 finalists headed off in the morning. The deep water was the place to be again this year, with plenty of hungry daphnia feeders willing to grab at anything pulled fast with a florescent tag.

The World Cup committee had reduced the bag limit this year to 3, with any additional trout being measured and released. These measurements were then converted into weights and the overall catch weight was recorded.

Lough Mask World Cup
World Cup winner Thomas O’Loughlin with (l-r): Sponsor Paul Duffy, World Cup President Joe Cusack, Winning Boatman Patrick Molloy, Thomas O’Loughlin, Boat manager Ronan Cusack, World Cup PRO Denis Kelleher

This year’s winner was the well-known Corofin, Co Clare angler, Thomas O’Loughlin, with a massive catch of 12 trout for a calculated weight of 13.4310lbs. Patrick Molloy of Oughterard was Thomas’s boatman on the day. Patrick also took the prize for being the boatman who brought in the biggest number of fish over the 5 days.

Second place went to Jonathan Craven of Roscommon with 8 trout for 8.5110lbs. Kenneth O’Keeffe from Kells, Co. Meath took third place with 5 trout for 6.0980lbs. The heaviest fish prize went to Feichin McMorrow Jnr from Sligo, with a trout of 2.880lbs.

This year’s best under-21 angler was Diarmuid Kelly from Tipperary with 2 trout weighing 2.770lbs. The best lady angler was Sue Hunter from Galway with 3 trout weighing 4.506lbs. This year’s best overseas angler was Bob Holland from the UK with 4 trout weighing 4.255lbs.

Overall the lake is fishing well at the moment and well worth a visit.

Corrib trout to 8lb on dapped grasshopper

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Kevin Crowley
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Gerry Molloy with a fine 8lbs Corrib trout caught while dapping grasshopper, July 2016
Gerry Molloy with a fine 8lbs Corrib trout caught while dapping grasshopper, July 2016

Declan Gibbons reports that the week just gone by saw some excellent fish being caught.

Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge, Glencorrib (www.corribangling.com) reported a busy week catering for Tim Rowley a regular visiting angler from the UK and his family, a party of eight. The fishing was mixed with several trout to dapped mayfly and dry sedges on Monday and Tuesday in the Inchagoill area. On Wednesday Larry said it was great to see the children in the group catch lots of quality rainbows at Mike Faherty’s fishery in Oughterard, a great venue for introducing young people to flyfishing. The remainder of the week produced 12 trout up to 3.5lbs on the lower lake to dry olives.

Young Jonathan McCarthy with a nice rainbow trout from Fahertys Angling Centre, Oughterard.
Young Jonathan McCarthy with a nice rainbow trout from Fahertys Angling Centre, Oughterard.

In the Oughterard area Gerry Molloy (087-9190673) reports good fishing to be had in the area, and he enjoyed two days dapping hoppers with a German pairing of grandfather and grandson catching 5 trout for 18lbs, including one cracking fish which Gerry caught himself weighing 8lbs.

Gerry Molloy with a fine 8lbs Corrib trout caught while dapping grasshopper, July 2016
Gerry Molloy with a fine 8lbs Corrib trout caught while dapping grasshopper, July 2016

Offaly man Dan Gilmartin and his partner fished out of Derrymoyle for 3 days and landed 7 fish for 12lbs on wet fly and dapping. Also in the Derrymoyle area Shane Coady from Dundalk had 12 fish for 5 days all released apart from 3, mostly caught on the dap.

Kevin Molloy (087-9604170) report reasonably good fishing to be had in the area on a mixture of trolling, dapping and wetfly with German and French guests on Tuesday and Thursday landing 6 trout for 9lbs.

Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (086-0869758) hosted Monaghan angler Peter Boyle, who landed 3 fish on Saturday last on wet fly with the best fish being 2.5lbs. Ronnie McIntyre from Fermanagh had

8 fish for 3 days with the best fish being 4.25lbs. Ian Matchett from Lurgan and Brian McBradley from Newtownards had 5 fish each on a mixture of wet and dry mayfly patterns, with Brian’s fish being 4.25lbs. Dublin man Eddie Rowe had 3 fish for his recent visit to Lough Corrib with his best fish being 2.25lbs. In the Cong area Frank Costello of Ashford Bay Boat Hire and Guiding (087-2524253) reports good fishing in the area mainly on dry fly and dapping, with the best fishing being had on sedges. On Monday last he guided two hotel guests landing 7 trout varying in weights from 1.25 – 3.25lbs                 .

Also in the Cong area Martha Mannion Ryan from Ryans River Lodge (www.ryansriverlodge.com) reports on Daithi Ryan landing 2 salmon – one on the fly and the second spinning, and a brown trout also spinning on the Cong River, which made for a memorable day for the young angler. Martha also tells us that reasonable fishing is being had by guests staying with them in the Inchagoill area.

A few grilse and sea trout last week on the Erriff

By
Kevin Crowley
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Conor O'Leary
Conor O'Leary

Fishery manager Osgur Grieve was in touch again with an update from the Erriff Fishery, covering fishing  from 27th July – 2nd August.

Jack Mannion fished under our ghillie’s supervision on the 27th of July and was rewarded with his first ever salmon, caught on an Ally’s shrimp from Beat 8, he also caught and released a 0.5lbs sea trout on a silver stoat’s tail, well done Jack, we hope it’s the first of many!

Conor O'Leary
Conor O’Leary

Local club man Conor O’Leary was next up that evening with a 3.25lbs grilse from the Falls Pool – he caught his fish on a Cascade.  Regular visitor Gael Kerschbaumer started his stay with us nicely with a fine 6.15lbs grilse from the Sea Pool on the 31st, this fish was taken on a Willie Gunn micro-tube. Gary Freed from the US had a 0.75lbs sea trout from Finnegan’s on Beat 2 and another from the Lower Garden Pool on Beat 9, then it was Garry’s turn to catch a grilse and did so in style from the top of the falls, this fish was estimated at 5.5lbs and was released again after putting up a good struggle.

Monday the 1st was quieter with 1 sea trout being released by Greg Rushing of about 0.75lbs.

Go fishing…

To book fishing or accommodation, contact Aasleagh Lodge at 095 42382 or check www.errifffishery.ie

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