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From mullet to rays for Killybegs Mariners SAC

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Christy with mullet
Christy with mullet

A very busy week for Stefan Martin from Killybegs Mariners SAC  fishing around Donegal Bay…

June 10th: The 1st of the Mariners 6 outing summer league was held last night in Glen as 9 anglers fished a dead calm beach which threw up some lovely fish early on as the tide filled into the bay most of the fish were caught at this stage. There was a few double shots of flounders and flounder trout doubles and a lovely 30cm turbot for Michael. A fine flounder of 38cm took the longest fish prize for Johnny Byrne and a lovely fishing along with it took the most points prize also for Johnny, well done to all

Killybegs Mariners - 11.06.2016 pic 1Also on the 11th of June Stefan tells us; We gathered the leftover mackerel from last night’s league outing and conjured up some chum and went to the mouth of the river in the harbour for a mullet bash for a few hours and as usual I blanked and Christy got two nice hard scrapping fish hard to whack.

Christy with mullet
Christy with mullet

Sunday June 12th: Club chairman Michael McGettigan took a few members out for a few drops on the sand on his charter boat Fiona Tee and on a beautiful day on Donegal Bay the 3 rods had over 30 rays and flatties and pollack etc drifting the sand banks a fantastic way to pass a few hours.

Killybegs Mariners - Ray

Monday June 13th: Well known charter skipper Enda O’ Callaghan bought his own pleasure boat and is back in action doing what he loves best, catching fish, enjoy retirement.

Enda having a great day
Enda having a great day

Tuesday June 14th: Went walkabout with just the lure rod and a landing net along the shore covered a few miles and found some lovely marks chucking in soft plastics on 10 gram hto cone leads, a beautiful way to fish wandering the shore all to yourself a some real hard fighting pollack crash diving into the kelp beds mighty sport.

Killybegs Mariners - Hard fighting pollack

Killybegs Mariners - June 14th

Stefan Martin
Killybegs mariners SAC

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mariner.sac

6lb tench for MADCAPS, come join the club !

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IFI Staff
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MADCAPS (Midlands Coarse & Pike Anglers)members were out and about for some great fishing this week including some coaching and a new pb for their chairman with a 6lb Tench.

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Madcaps - June 12th 2016 pic 2

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If you are interested in waggler fishing – now is the time to learn it!

Our next MINI MADCAPS coaching session will take place on Saturday 18th June and cover the theory and set-up for fishing the waggler. Meet 11am at the Canal end of the Meadows. All equipment provided for juniors and just €2 to join in. Interested adults welcome to come along too!

Madcaps - June 12th 2016 pic 5Michael (Madman) O’Connor Memorial Match is on Sunday 19th on the Meadows.
Draw 10.30am sharp. Fishing 12.30 to 5.30pm

Michael or Madman as he was affectionaley known was a childhood friend to many of our members and loved the river with a passion. This member only match is in memory of you bud.

In addition Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran is kindly coming along on Sunday to brief us on the progress of the Burgess Park Venue Development.

Join the Club…

We are pleased to say our members voted YES to accept some new blood to the club. So, if you would like to join us please get in touch.

MADCAPS, Midlands Coarse & Pike Anglers are steadily growing, have some coached members to take juniors forward and are delighted to be working with other clubs and organisations in the area towards the development of angling venues.

We run a pike league in the winter and coarse for the summer. Our membership is just €10 and we charge no more for our open competitions keeping it affordable for all. Key for us is that we keep fishing fun!

If you are interested please get in touch – https://www.facebook.com/MidlandsCoarsePikeAnglers

Great catches for coarse anglers in the Cavan area

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IFI Staff
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Tony Green winner Arva Seniors Challenge with Philomena & Eamonn Gray Breffni Arms Hotel
Tony Green winner Arva Seniors Challenge with Philomena & Eamonn Gray Breffni Arms Hotel

Alice Murtagh IFI from the Corlesmore office reports:

The annual Arva Seniors Challenge took place last week on Rockfield, Kevins Shore, Corfree, Dernaferst and Corfree. Fifty nine anglers took part in the competition and 1,404.035kg of fish was caught over the five days.

Tony Green winner of the senior classic arva
Tony Green winner of the Senior Classic Arvagh

The following is a list of the top six winners:-

  • Tony Geene 59.130kg
  • Bob Nudd 42.560kg
  • Neil Mazarek 40.300kg
  • Neil Mallinson 37.450kg
  • Mick Hargreaves 36.330kg

The Breffni Arms Hotel Challenge is taking place this week with fantastic fishing reported. Day one saw a total of 496.7kg caught and a winning weight of 25.65kg to Arthur Cunliff on peg 1 at Kevins Shore. In second place was Gary Charles with 20.85kg and third was Bob Brown with 19.970kg. All weights are being caught on the pole with mixed bags of Hybrids, Skimmers and a some Bream up to 2kg.

Tony Green winner Arva Seniors Challenge with Philomena & Eamonn Gray Breffni Arms Hotel
Tony Greene winner Arva Seniors Challenge with Philomena & Eamonn Gray Breffni Arms Hotel

Good numbers of Tench and Hybrids are being caught on Brackley, while Corgar, Drumlona and Corduff are producing nice Tench. Little river between Kiltybarden and St Johns is giving good bags of fish while good Hybrids are being caught at Kiltybarden. Nice Bream are also being caught on the canal between locks 5, 6 and 7

Alice Murtagh
 Inland Fisheries Ireland – Corlesmore Office, Arva, Co. Cavan
alice.murtagh@fisheriesireland.ie
Tel: +353 (0)49 4337174

Lough Melvin fished well this week despite the very bright weather and low water conditions

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IFI Staff
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Lindsey Clarke reports from LOUGH MELVIN – Monday 6th  to Sunday 12th June 2016.

Lough Melvin fished well this week despite the very bright weather and low water conditions. There were around 12 salmon caught trolling. Three of the boats out of the Rossinver Fishery on Friday recorded a salmon apiece with former fishery manager Bill McNeary accounting for one of these weighing 4lb. Trout fishing has been very good on occasion through the week with most rods targeting the Sonaghan on the deep water drifts and boats reporting catches of up to 8 good Sonaghan. Garrison Lough Melvin Angling club hosted the Ronnie Cox Cancer Research Competition on Saturday. The competition was very well attended with 57 boats venturing out. Catches were fairly good and the winning pair, Darren Maguire and Gene Harron, won with 6 trout.

Lindsey ClarkeLindsey Clarke
IFI-Ballyshannon.
email: lindsey.clarke@fisheriesireland.ie

Make a booking

For info/boat hire/bookings etc. on Lough Melvin see http://www.drowessalmonfishery.com/ or Tel: 071 9841055.

For info/Guides/boat hire on Lough Melvin contact Sean Maguire’s Tackle Shop, Main Street, Garrison.

Lough Melvin, Rossinver Fishery: For info/Guides/boat hire/bookings etc, contact Jim Hoy. Tel: 071 9854930.

Prospects look good on the Drowes with some excellent grilse being caught

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IFI Staff
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Lindsey Clarke reports from the RIVER DROWES – Monday 6th  to Sunday 12th June 2016.

Low water conditions continued again this week although there was a small steady rise over the week. The gauge on Monday read a very low 0.34m and this had risen to a low 0.37m by the end of play on Sunday. Despite the low and bright conditions, the Drowes fished well and there were some 60 plus salmon caught this week! Given here are some of the catches taken from the Catch Register at the fishery office.

On Monday, Dessie Moynes recorded a 4lb grilse caught on a fly. On Tuesday, William Rainey reported a 4lb grilse caught and released on prawn from the Sea Pools. On Wednesday, Paul McCausland logged a 7lb salmon caught on a spinner from the Mill Pool. On Friday, Calum Kettles recorded a 5lb grilse caught on a spinner from Red Roof and Dave Peach accounted for 2 grilse weighing 3 & 4lb also caught on a spinner from Red Roof.

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Drowes 15.06.2016

On Saturday, Christophe Leutellier caught and released a 3½lb grilse on a spinner from Scot’s Corner. Niall McIntyre reported a 5lb grilse caught on a spinner from Red Roof. Sam McClelland logged a 3lb grilse caught on prawn from the Sea Pools and Michael McKee caught and released a 3lb grilse on prawn from the Sea Pools. On Sunday, Tommy McCutcheon registered a 7lb salmon caught on fly from the Eel Weir. William Rainey recorded 3 grilse all weighing 3lb caught and released again on prawn from the Sea Pools. Duncan Rainey reported a 4lb grilse caught on prawn from the Sea Pools. Andrew Sloan logged a 4lb grilse caught on fly from Red Roof and Jean Claude Depoissan accounted for 2 grilse weighing 2 & 3lb caught on a spinner from Red Roof. For the week, Norbert Wilems recorded 3 grilse weighing 2, 3 & 3½lb caught on spinner from Red Roof and the McBride party reported 10 grilse caught for the week (1 on fly and 9 on worm) from various pools.

The Drowes is rising steadily after decent rain on Monday night and at present, the gauge is reading 0.40m. Prospects look very good for the coming week.

Lindsey ClarkeLindsey Clarke
IFI-Ballyshannon.
email: lindsey.clarke@fisheriesireland.ie

Make a booking

For info/bookings etc on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin see the website: http://www.drowessalmonfishery.com/ or Tel: +353 (0)71 9841055 (8 am to 12 noon)

Award of Achievement for NICCA volunteers

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IFI Staff
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Award from Lord Mayor
Award from Lord Mayor

Northern Ireland Cross Community Angling report:

Round 4 of the NICCA Adult and U18 Coarse Leagues took place today at Beechhill Fishery in Newtownards.

Well done to everyone that took part.

NICCA - June 12th pic 1

Adult

1st Gary McPhee 2.6kg
2nd Wieslaw Nowicki 2.1kg
3rd Gary McClure 0.3kg
4th John Sloan 0.2kg
5th Stephen Dempster 0.1kg

NICCA - June 12th pic 2U18

1st Darren Anderson 2.2kg
2nd Gareth Anderson 1.8kg
3rd Simon Anderson 1.5kg
4th Reece Sloan 0.6kg
5th Jonathan Meaney 0.4kg
6th Sarah Meaney 0.2kg

NICCA - June 12th pic 3NICCA Executive Committee receiving a certificate in recognition of the hard work the volunteers do in Sport from the Lord Mayor of Belfast.  Well done…

Award from Lord Mayor
Award from Lord Mayor

Go Fishing…

Northern Ireland Cross Community Angling

N.I.C.C.A. was formed in May 2011 and incorporates all disciplines of angling including coarse, game, pike and sea fishing. The club has a membership ranging in age from three years old to Senior Citizens and are currently the only fully Charity registered Angling club in Northern Ireland.

Their aim is to create opportunities for young and disabled people – building a brighter future for them, their families and local communities. The club seek to achieve this by delivering fun and interactive activities centred around the sport of angling. They have their own lake in Newtownards which is a mixed fishery. It has private parking and there is kitchen and toilet facilities.

Lough Currane was quiet with only a few grilse caught

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IFI Staff
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Deculty and Henri-Anntoine
Deculty and Henri-Anntoine

Vincent Appleby reports from a very quiet Lough Currane:

8th June:  All the head lines go to French Angler’s Mr. Deculty Thibaut and Mr. henri-Anntoine Chazalet of Annonay France and for good reason they caught a fine lightening fresh 4 ½ lbs. Salmon Grilse on the troll. Wind light SW with bright sunshine all day and very warm.

Deculty and Henri-Anntoine
Deculty and Henri-Anntoine

9th June: Lough Currane was on the quiet side in all departments, even though there was a nice light SE wind with good cloud cover and very warm and humid, with light rain this evening.

10th June: All quiet on the SW front in all departments. Wind West and light with the odd light shower. Now a message to all you Noble Anglers that come down to Lough Currane for the weekend, don’t forget if you catch a basket of fish, please dispatch your catches to 087 2074882.

Caught in the net
Caught in the net

11th June: What can you say about the Lough Currane pro Anglers and amateurs, its simple they are failing miserably in all arts of game fishing ie Wet fly, Dry fly and dapping the fly and trolling, last but not least the Black Birds Fancy, so as you can imagine their topic of conversation as they drink their pints this evening was on their failures of the day and if its not, it dam well it should be. Wind South and light with good cloud cover with misty rain throughout the day.

12th June: Here are the Salmon and Sea Trout results from the Waterville Fishery, Salmon and Sea Trout won, my Noble Anglers lost and failed miserably in their duties in all departments. Wind West light with good cloud cover.

13th June: Killarney Angler Mr. Kevin Lavery, was in great form in the trolling department, while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Tom O’Shea of www.flyfishingatloughcurrane.com caught a fine lightening fresh 4 lbs. Salmon / Grilse on the troll. Now to the fly C&R department, UK Angler, Mr. Mark Knowles, caught a  3 lbs. Grilse this morning and in Mr. Mark Knowles, fly backdate department, yesterday, he had two C&R Salmon ranging from 4 lbs. up to 5 lbs. Wind NW fresh and overcast with showers.

Kevin Lavery
Kevin Lavery

14th June: South African Angler, Peter, caught and released a fine 3 lbs. Sea Trout on the fly, while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Neil O’Shea of www.oshealoughcurrane.com. Mark Knowles caught 4 Grilse and 1 Sea Trout, all on the fly and all C&R.  Wind NW fresh with good cloud cover.

That is your ration from the last week on Lough Currane, from your Gillie and the Waterville Fishery, no spin no fly’s just facts.
Vincent Appleby

Make a Booking

Vincent Appleby Eureka Lodge, Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry.
Telephone: +353 (0)66 9475248
E-mail: salmonandseatrout@eircom.net
Web: www.salmonandseatrout.com

Find out more about Lough Currane…

The rivers and lakes of Waterville drain a large catchment and are regarded by many as the foremost Salmon and Sea-Trout fishery in the country. The lake system is well developed with access to boats and guides being readily available to the tourist angler. The Sea-Trout caught here are renowned for their size and quantity. For more details see

 

Great fish for the Killinarden group at Laois

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IFI Staff
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Killinarden Angling Initiative

Killinarden Angling Initiative continue their great work in the community and report:

Last Wednesday ended our connecting community’s project with the Tallaght probation project, the venue was Laois Angling Centre and the target was, Carp, Tench and trout. I have to say it is a beautiful place with some great fishing. pristine carp and tench.

Oisin from IFI with the group
Oisin from IFI with the group

Thank you to Oisin from Inland Fisheries Ireland and DAI for his support on the day.

Kai will present Pieta house with a Cheque at their offices in Lucan

On the 28th of may 2016 we hosted Ireland’s first Fishing for Pieta event, we had 56 anglers from all over the country arrive at the venue and the fun and laughter began. The sun was hot, the wind was warm and the fishing was hard in some places.

But the one thing that we all wanted was to raise the awareness of suicide and mental health issues in Ireland, I think we can all safely say we did that.

This event was in the planning for 9 months and involved 100’s of people from all walks of life to come together so it could happen, there was a lot of hard work but dedication made it possible… read further    Fantastic fun and €4,000 raised for Pieta House

KAI - Angling for the futureKAI Junior Summer League

Second round of KAIs junior summer league , is Saturday 25th of June . Bus is booked ,pick up at Killinarden Community Center , Travling to @Laios Angling Center .

Go fishing…..

Killinarden Angling Initiative

KAI was set up in March 2014 in Killinarden, Tallaght. Its principle aims are to promote, develop and improve angling in the Killinarden and the greater west Tallaght area and is affiliated with the National Coarse Fishing Federation Ireland. During the summer months the main work of the initiative is taking young people from Killinarden on fishing courses .The Initiative has also been a catalyst in setting up a children’s and Adult fishing club in Killinarden for many of these young people and giving them a hobby they can enjoy for life.

KAI run fishing competitions for juniors and a host of other events feature on the calendar, attracting greater interest to the sport year after year.
Call or text Pat on 085 1192724 or Stephen 085 2131096

Grilse starting to move on the Erriff

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Kevin Crowley
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Bill Middleton with a nice River Erriff grilse
Bill Middleton with a nice River Erriff grilse

Fishery manager Osgur Grieve reports that after an unusually long period without rain here in the west we have had a small rise in water levels over the past few days. The river was low at 0.52m on the 9th, but Bill Middleton persevered accompanied by his two friends Ben and Robin. Bill was successful catching a 4.5lbs grilse from the Falls Pool on a small Stoat’s Tail; the fish was very fresh and had come in despite the low water conditions. Erriff Angling Club fished on Sunday and Brian Graham was successful, landing a 3.25lbs grilse on a Black Shrimp fly. The river is up to 1.16m at the time of writing so hopefully this rise will encourage some more fresh fish to come in. Salmon and sea trout were clearly visible at the falls yesterday trying to continue their journey upstream.

To book fishing and/or accommodation contact Aasleagh Lodge at 095 42252 or check out the website at www.errifffishery.ie

Bill Middleton with a nice River Erriff grilse
Bill Middleton with a nice River Erriff grilse

Costello starting to produce fish despite low water

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Kevin Crowley
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Fishery manager Terry Gallagher reports on fishing over the last couple of weeks from Costello.

As with a lot of fisheries in the west Costello has seen little rain and plenty of sunshine in the last weeks. Understandably rod pressure was low as a result. That being said, fish can also be caught in low water conditions as the following intrepid anglers demonstrated recently. Paraic McDonagh wrestled a 5lbs bar of silver from the sea pools towards the end of May. Richard and Hugh McGuire were not deterred either and were rewarded with 2 grilse of 5lbs and 3lbs, after travelling down from Dublin.

Neil Spellacy’s first visit to Casla in 2016 was certainly successful as he landed a 4lbs silver grilse on River Beat 1. Finally, grilse of 4lbs 12oz and 4lbs 4oz fell to the Black shrimp when Geoffrey Fitzjohn also fished River Beat 1.

The more unsettled weather this week and a drop of rain should help sport at Costello and get salmon and sea trout moving into the system. To book fishing, give Terry a call at 087 2399988.

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