SkipperMark Gannon reports from a busy week at Courtmacsherry.
Specimen whiting, good size haddock, several fine Hake and plenty of blues. Marks says he drifting over broken ground with baited feathers in 100 m and was well pleased with the hake caught.
Our Dutch, French and English clients caught a nice variety of other species too including good size haddock, mackerel in abundance with large shoals of sprat and Sandeel in the estuary,making favourable conditions for bass lure fishing.
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
Graham Smith with super porbeagle shark Photo: Martin Maloney
Kayak angler Graham Smyth had his hands full this weekend with an epic battle to land a huge 300lb porbeagle shark. This massive fish took 3 hours and 10 minutes to land off Malin Head in Donegal. About 40 mins into the fight she ram the hell out of the kayak, but Graham held on.
Graham is never shy when it comes to effort and tackling the unknown. Emmett Johnston the local wildlife range was passing at the time and reckoned it was an easy 300lb.
Graham Smith with super porbeagle shark Photo: Martin Maloney
Irish Kayak Angling is Irelands on-line Kayak Angling club. The Club is open to all to enjoy, it is free and they welcome both the experienced and new comers to the sport of Kayak fishing. The forum is the club room and meeting place and great place to get in touch with other to get guidance, share tales and talk tactics… http://www.irishkayakangling.com/
This is a beautiful lake full of large fully finned brown and rainbow trout (and a few pike). We got a great welcome from Michael Sheehan and the other club members from Waterford City & County Trout Anglers. They could not have been more helpful, carrying our gear, sorting out cups of tea and biscuits, boats, engines and measures and ensuring all we had to do was enjoy our fishing!
The Irish Ladies Fly Fishing Association members
15 women, many of whom had travelled long distances from Counties Clare, Londonderry, Antrim, Mayo, Donegal amongst others, arrived bright and early and were soon were catching up on news while tackling up. The water temperature was still very high after the recent hot weather and the sun was shining brightly so it was hard fishing all round. More like August weather than mid June. However a few of their magnificent rainbows and browns allowed themselves to be caught and released.
Brown trout
Top angler was Maddy Kelly with 4 fish. Top boatman with 6 fish was Frank who boated Maddy Kelly and Michelle Hay, who got 2 fish.
All fish were caught using debarbed hooks and safely released to the lake.
Lovely to see everyone again and there was plenty of socialising over the weekend. Many thanks to Waterford Anglers and also to Rose and Ian at Easdale B&B in for looking after us so well, including driving us down to the lake so we didn’t get lost and giving us free run of their lovely B&B all weekend. http://www.easdaleguesthouse.com/
Looking forward to the 4th trial of the year, which is to be held in Co Donegal, team places and captaincy is all to play for – all very close and exciting!
We will be back in Waterford!!
Go fishing…
For more information on these events or to join the ILFA please visit www.irishladiesflyfishing.com or ring Julie Gerry (ROI) 087 2055094, Pauline McClenaghan (NI) 07841 573089 or email us on ilfa1@eircom.net
Angling Notes: Fresh availability of Wild Atlantic Salmon
Wild Atlantic salmon are now available at fish counters around Ireland. This salmon comes from sustainably-managed traditional net fisheries on estuaries and rivers around Ireland, where the number of returning salmon allows fish to be harvested, while maintaining a healthy stock of spawning fish for future generations. The total commercial quota for harvest is 11,131 from a total of 58,599 (angling and commercial combined), which makes it a premium product. These salmon can be regarded as truly organic, having lived life in the wild ensuring firm flesh and high levels of healthy Omega-3 oils… Irish Times, 20/06/16. Read the full article ‘Angling Notes: Fresh availability of Wild Atlantic Salmon‘.
Angling Notes: Fresh availability of Wild Atlantic Salmon
Callam Reilly of Navan Coarse Angling Club reports that Lough Ramor is fishing very well at the moment.
Callam Reilly
Last weekend Callam had over 40lb and angling pal, Kieran over 50lb, of rudd, roach and hybrids. Callam fished the waggler with the float set 3 inches over depth. He fed the swim with a ball of groundbait laced with maggots casters and corn every fish. Kieran fished a feeder with groundbait and maggots.
Kieran
Go fishing…
Navan Coarse Angling Club
NCAC is open to all, we have members ranging in age from 6 to 60, male and female, national and non national, members who are complete novice anglers and those have fished for Leinster. If you would like to join our club or have any queries please click here
Lough Ramor
Lough Ramor is the biggest lake in the Bailieboro & Virginia area at 800 hectares. It is quite shallow at its southern end but depths in excess of 15m have been recorded around the northern end of the lake. This is an excellent coarse fishery and it regularly produces large catches of bream, roach, roach-bream hybrids and some perch. Find out more: https://www.fishinginireland.info/coarse/east/cavan/bailieboro.htm
A couple of better fish, but many were pretty small
Eddie Long, NADA PRO, reports on the 2nd round of their Summer League at Derry lough and Coorstown on June 12th…
2nd round of the NADA summer league was fished on Derry lough and Coorstown in Co.Louth
Seventeen anglers met up in Drumconrath for the match draw at 9am and we had a fiver a head pools draw with the winner of each lake sharing the spoils. The weather was quite clammy and overcast and on arrival at Derry lough the water was heavily coloured so it looked quite promising for a fish or two. The all in was set for 12pm so we had loads for time for hauling our gear to our pegs and some of us have way too much gear.
I began fishing my peg in Derry’s at 11.5m top 4 deep hoping for some bream or tench but after an hour and a half of not exactly bagging I decided to fish in close after seeing what I thought were tench bubbles. I had a mix of World cup and attractive gross gardons kindly donated by a scouse friend which after a bit of rain had become nice soft consistency perfect for nuggets. For the remainder of the match I fished in close, top 4 with a .2g Rive float strung out pattern and added a small nugget each cast with a pinch of pinkies. I was getting a fish a chuck but the stamp was very, very small and I made a rookie error by not shallowing up my rig and I’m sure due to that I missed out on quickening up my catch rate. Either way with the stamp of fish I had I wouldn’t have been in the running but I possibly could have gotten some much needed league points but you live and learn don’t ya.
A couple of better fish, but many were pretty small
I called the all out at 5pm and the weigh in was soon under way. Neil Keane set the weight to beat on peg 3 with a lovely net of fish just under 7kg and there were quite good nets of fish further down the bank but none could come close to the Palmerston polemaster.
Coorstown hadn’t produced weights as good as Derry’s but nobody blanked and we all had a great days fishing. Many thanks to the Meath hill Angling club for allowing us to host our match on their club lakes, beautiful venues and I can’t wait to go back again.
Results
DERRY LOUGH
Section 1
1st Neil Keane 6.875kg
2nd Marius Matuza 4.225kg
Section 2
1st Chris Moore 4.825kg
2nd Andrius Simbelis 3.100kg
COORSTOWN
Section 1
1st Kevin Johnson 3.700kg
2nd Aussie Conway 2.350kg
Section 2
1st Paul McLoughlin 2.850kg
2ndGrazvydas Karalius 1.225kg
Well done to Neil Keane and Kevin Johnson who shared the pools, great fishing lads!!!
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.
Assisted. 1st Jonathan Dunphy.
2nd Cathlin Murphy.
3rd Kayla Butler.
4th Emma Reville.
Go Fishing…
Bannow Bay Angling club was founded in 1995 by a group of anglers in the Bannow/Wellingtonbridge area to cater for all types of shore angling, fishing in the estuary and on beaches along with rock fishing in the Hook Head area to give its members a wide variety of fishing and to cater for all age groups.
Derry’s Irish International angler, Dr. Pauline McClenaghan, was celebrating last week after helping the Irish Ladies Fly-fishing Team claim silver at the Home Fly-fishing Internationals in the Carron Valley Fishery, Scotland.
The host country won took gold to claim the ‘Bob Church Trophy’ after landing 71 fish to Ireland’s total of 49 fish. England took third with 40 fish and Wales fourth with 35 fish….
Oisin Cahill from the Dublin Angling Initiative has one of the more unusual angling stories we’ve published in this blog…
Preparing for History
During a recent visit to Meadow Lodge Fisheries in Maynooth I met Sean Ledwidge, age 16, who was preparing for his Junior Cert history exam. Sean mentioned he found it easier to study while fishing for carp so he sets up shop on the lake with a friend and there he studies in the peaceful surroundings.
Sean Ledwidge preparing to make history
I asked him when his exam was to which he replied “in about two hours but I`ll be back to fishing after its over!”
Good to see this young man has his priorities in order!
