Wins for Mullingar and Tallaght anglers on Lough Owel

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September 8, 2015

Angling guide and journalist Mick Flanagan reports:

Tommy McCormack Memorial Cup.

Lough Owel Trout Preservation Association hosted their last fly-fishing competition of the 2015 season last Sunday September 6th with the main prize on the day the Clonhugh Cup. Also on the last competition day the Tommy McCormack Memorial Cup is up for grabs. This Cup is presented to the L.O.T.P.A. member who produced the best gross weight of fish during the trout competition season, and this year Mullingar Angler Brendan Murray was crowned top Lough Owel angler of 2015.Brendan had a fantastic season on Owel and boated trout in all five fly fishing competition on Owel.In total Brendan weighed in 12.270kg of trout to win the Tommy McCormack Memorial Cup.Prenentation took place at the Tullaghan Angling Center last Sunday evening, and Mick McCormack son of the late Tommy presented Brendan with his prizes.

Clonhugh Cup goes to Tallaght.

As mentioned above Lough Owel anglers were out in force last Sunday September 6th, and competed for the Clonhugh Cup. It’s the official winding down of trout competition on Owel, and there was a great turn out of compeditors. Fishing was from 11am-7pm, and presentation and light refreshments took place at Tullaghan Angling Center. Plenty of trout were presented at the 7pm weigh-in and many anglers produced their 3 fish bag limit. On the day Noel Farrer of Tallaght in Dublin produced the winning trout and it rattled the scales at 1.225kg. Well known Mullingar angler Andy Boyle finished 2nd with another fine trout of 1.205kg, and Ollie Maheady also Mullingar 3rd with 1.130kg.The junior section was won by James Maheady with a trout of 1.105kg.Andy Boyle of L.O.T.P.A. thanked all who supported the associations competitions in 2015, and also a big thanks to those who provided the light refreshments. Its not the end of the competition scene on Owel, and on Sunday October 11th the end of season competition takes place.

Noel Farrer from Tallagh won Clonhugh Cup on Owel. Andy presents the cup. — Noel Farrer from Tallaght won Clonhugh Cup on Owel. Andy presents the cup.

Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling

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Midlands Angling provide a top class Guiding service covering many of the top coarse and game waters across the Midlands. Visiting fly anglers have landed some fine trout while out with Midland Angling Guides, pike anglers also recorded some net bursting catches including many pike over 20lbs. Top waters include Lough Ree, Ennell, Owel, Lene, Mount Dalton, and Glore Lake just to mention a few.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Pike and Trout angling guide.

Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270
Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781
Email: [email protected] Web: www.midlandangling.com

Ennell win for Mick Flanagan

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September 8, 2015

Eleanor Quinn and her Grandad Con Hope present Mick Flanagan with Lough Ennell Perpetual Cup

Angling guide and journalist Mick Flanagan reports:

Last Sunday Lough Ennell trout Preservation association hosted the Lough Ennell Perpetual cup, and this was a very good entry for the popular fly-fishing competition sponsored by Con Hope. Fishing was from 11am-7pm and it never easy going on Ennell to entice a few trout to surface feed. The Morning arrived bright and there was only a slight breeze as we headed out from Whitebridge Bay. The Boats scattered to all corners of Ennell and I settled into a long drift from Rinn Point drifting towards Belvedere.

I was very lucky to move into a few big slicks as the wind dropped to near calm conditions, and met a few Ennell trout up on the surface. I covered 3 feeding fish but never interested them, then all of a sudden I got a savage take just below the surface on a small wet Murrough tied by Owen Mc Enteggart of Dundalk & District Trout & Salmon anglers who is a regular angler to Mullingar. Its was a cracking Ennell trout and weighed 3.116lbs, which was good enough to take Top Rod. Tullamore Angler Conor Lynch finished 2nd with another lovely fish of 2.228lbs, John Brennan Longford 3rd with 2.058lbs, and 4th Mullingar angler Ciaran Newman 2.036lbs.

Con Hope along with his Grand daughters Alison, Eleanor, and Eadaoin Quinn were out for the presentation along with friend Maria Moreno. Con and Eleanor presented the prizes, and John Tyrrell of L.E.T.P.A. thanked Con and his daughter Lorraine who could not make the presentation for sponsoring the competition. I had a great chat with Con at the presentation and was delighted to see him out for the presentation, as I fished for years with Con and actually won the Cup back in 2004.Ennell Anglers are back in action on Sunday September 20th with top prize the O, Malley Cup. More on this and fish catching Ennell flies drop into David O, Malley Angling Center in Dominick Street.

Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling

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Midlands Angling provide a top class Guiding service covering many of the top coarse and game waters across the Midlands. Visiting fly anglers have landed some fine trout while out with Midland Angling Guides, pike anglers also recorded some net bursting catches including many pike over 20lbs. Top waters include Lough Ree, Ennell, Owel, Lene, Mount Dalton, and Glore Lake just to mention a few.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Pike and Trout angling guide.

Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270
Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781
Email: [email protected] Web: www.midlandangling.com

Newcomers liven up the residents and give anglers a battle to look forward to

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September 8, 2015

A fish caught on Knockaderry on the 15th of Aug was from an April stocking and shows the pristine condition they are in

Waterford City and County Trout Angling Association PRO David Tantrum gives us some dates to pencil into our diaries and reports on how the excellent Waterford fisheries are doing after their Winter restocking:

Both Knockaderry and Carrigavantry have been stocked with rainbows to liven up the residents for the late season fishing. Carrigavantry has fished exceptionally well with fish on the surface. Knockaderry has suffered from poor water clarity, normal at this time of year, but it has not prevented the fish responding to a deeper fished fly.

Sunday saw a lovely 65cms long rainbow caught at Carrigavantry which was estimated to weigh 7 lbs.

7lb rainbow caught on Sunday — Sunday’s catch

Dates to look forward to….

The Dick Doyle Competition is on Carrigavantry on Sept 27th and is for club members only.
The Munster Bank Competition is at Carrigavantry on Saturday 17th Oct.
The Knockaderry Cup is on the holiday weekend of the 24th and 25th and the final on the Monday 26th Oct.

Details will be posted well before the two open competitions. We have days available for club and corporate outings. Details from Michael Sheehan 086 1073086, who will front our stand at the Galway Fly Fishing Fair and our members will be only to pleased to answer your queries.

Thanks to the quality fish we bought from Andrew Golden at Roscrea we should have an average weight of around three pounds for the “off season”.

David Tantrum

FLY FISHING ON KNOCKADERRY CARRIGAVANTRY BALLYSCANLON

Carrigavantry – This 30 acre reservoir is hidden in the hills behind Tramore. The lake can be fished from the dam and road and the rest of the lake shore needs waders. The deepest part is the island at 10 feet.Prolific hatches of lake olives and damsels occur. Stocking is with both browns and rainbows. You could loose your catch here to a 20lb Pike!

Knockaderry – The deepest part of the lake is 24 feet at the dam tower, the average depth is 6ft and this results in good weed growth. Trout fatten fast in this fertile water on caddis, snails and stickle backs, while lake olives,buzzers sedges and damsels bring on prolific rises. This 80 acre reservoir is a traditional top of the water drift fishery.

New members are welcome and an active programme of fly tuition is pursued to encourage beginners and get our youth out into the countryside.

For Information about Wheelie Boat, day permits and membership ‘Click here for information’Here For Information

To place a booking…

David Tantrum,

Waterford City and County Trout Angling Association

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.waterfordflyfishing.ie

Phone: 051-384428 – Pat Smith (Treasurer) + Wheelie Boat Bookings

Rainbows on a variety of sedges and buzzers for anglers at Cashel Trout Fishery

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September 8, 2015

Marlene Mc Laughlin reports from Cashel Trout Fishery :

Beautiful autumnal weather on the way and anglers are in their element catching big fighting rainbow and trying their best to lure them to the bank.

Derry’s Brian and Ciaran Kelly bagged two for home which weighed a total of 8lb 5ozs while Limavady’s Ken Foster released eight and lost at least five more which fell to his hedgehog pattern. Eddie Manthorpe (Coleraine) and Peter Clarke (Portstewart) released six between them with Peter taking the majority which fell to gold head pheasant tails and buzzers.

Donegal’s Shaun O’Doherty released two after an unsettled start using a wee dry and a wee buzzer. Maghera’s Declan Bradley accompanied by his friend Eunan Mc Aleese bagged three each for home weighing a total of 9lb 9ozs. They also released one more after the bag limit was killed. These two anglers were using sedges and nymphs. Jim Russell and Danny Walker (Newtownabbey and Monkstown) did extremely well also banking eleven magnificent trout between them averaging 2.5lb apiece which fell to the Kate McLaren wet fly and wee sedges. Newcomer, Davy Smyth (Desert martin) accompanied by his mate Jonathan Selfridge (Maghera) landed themselves two real beauties for home weighing 4lb each which fell to klinkhammers and an orange blob.

Congratulations to all and tightlines!!

Info and enquiries to Marlene at 17 Birren Road, Dungiven, BT47 4SH, Tel: Dungiven 028777 42159/07999013250,

Email: [email protected],

Web: www.cashel-lake-view.com. Find us on Facebook too.

Some nice fresh fish on the Munster Blackwater

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September 8, 2015

All the news from the Munster Blackwater……..

Fort William….

Paul Whelan reports for Fort William Lodge:

Kevin Shone had a 5.5lb fish off the Bishops beat. Gerry Barker had a fish of 5lbs of the Ellis beat and safely returned and lost another.
Keith Shearing guided by Chris Coady has landed and released 2 fish of 7lbs each. Chris landed a 5lbs fresh fish off the Castle beat.
Another cracking fish lost on the Castle beat, fish jumped and broke the line. 16lbs ++. Plenty of water there for a fish of this size to travel through lower beats.
Fishing hasn’t been easy in the last few days so maybe this is the start we needed.

Blackwater Lodge…..

Glenda Powell enjoyed the fishing Sunday on the river and caught a lovely little fish which came to a micro treble fly in the afternoon. A quick snap of Glenda and the fish and back it went safely.

Go fishing…

Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Web: www.fortwilliamfishing.ie Email: [email protected]
Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299

Ian Powell
Blackwater Lodge

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Blackwater Lodge & Salmon Fishery
Upper Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.
Tel: 00 353 58 60235 From UK: 0871 474 0135 (10p/min any time!)
Mobile: 00 353 87 235 21 20
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ireland-salmon-fishing.net

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

A few bass to 72cm from around Clonakilty

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September 8, 2015

Peter Aspinwall reports on the bass fishing around Clonakilty…

05 September: Six hours fishing yesterday was uneventful to say the least. Seven small Pollock and two mackerel. I came home and called my client for this morning, Ray Martin, to let him know that the fishing wasn’t great. His attitude was superb and was well up for the day’s session. Positive thinking produces positive results. We had 3 bass in the end – the best a monster at 72cm long and I firmly believe a specimen bass. Of course it was returned, along with the other two.

Mike Quirek told Peter "That was some top shelf guiding Pete!! Watching those big bass slamming the baitfish over the reef, seeing that double figure fish breech a few times, the cold beer and awesome ham sandwiches.. Just fantastic craic. Between Bass and Pollock my arm is aching this morning!" — Mike Quirke told Peter “That was some top shelf guiding Pete!! Watching those big bass slamming the baitfish over the reef, seeing that double figure fish breech a few times, the cold beer and awesome ham sandwiches.. Just fantastic craic. Between Bass and Pollock my arm is aching this morning!”

08 September: The neap tides are still producing bass. I had an 8lb fish to a surface popper on Sunday and Mike Quirke had this one yesterday. One of six to the boat, all coming to lures. Mike took the “Lions share” of the fish catching all but one of them. Think I’ll just stick to the guiding!

Peter Aspinwall
Clonakilty Bass Guide

Go fishing…

To go fishing with Peter call him on +353 (0)86 849 2993
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clonakilty-Bass-Angling-Guide/226025274212008

Some good fish at Inch Beach competition

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September 8, 2015

The last Tralee Bay SAC competition of the summer took place on the 30th August 2015…

20 anglers took part in our last summer comp of the year. Hoping for a bit of surf, we arrived to flat calm waters, which meant we would be fishing for flatties.

The competition started at 12 pm, and not to be deterred by the serenity of the water, some anglers still took a chance on catching a bass, but alas not one bass to be found during the entire comp.

Overall 102 fish were caught, turbot, brill and flounder – no round fish. It was an interesting competition to say the least with participants either catching very low or good numbers of fish.

It was nice to have a couple of visitors join us for the comp, Mike Curtin from Galway and Ian Misselbrook from the UK .

The results are as follows

Senior :

1st- Eugene Farrelly – 265 points
2nd- Connie O sullivan – 221 points
3rd – Mike Curtain- 212 points

Junior:

Christopher O Sullivan – 166 points
Eoin Foley – 66 points
Craig Corbett- 54 points

The best flat fish was David O Sullivans with a 28 cm flounder.

No round fish caught.

Well done to all who took part and see you at the next comp: 27th September Cappaclough 12- 4 pm.

Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club
Web: www.traleebaysac.org

Join Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club

Tralee Bay SAC is a thriving community of enthusiastic anglers – young and old, experienced and newcomers – with new members joining all of the time. We have a busy schedule of shore and boat competitions and lots of social events planned throughout the year. Tralee Bay is a family friendly, welcoming club with a reputation for promoting angling and encouraging newcomers to the sport.

Joining could not be easier – simply get in touch with us via our Contact us page leave your address and we will send you out an application form. Please also let us have your email address – especially if you have any queries for us. We are especially eager to hear from junior anglers who want to take advantage of club membership. For more information on joining see here – Joining Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club.

Warning to salmon farmers over water extraction, Connacht Tribune

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September 8, 2015

Salmon farm operators in Connemara have been warned over the illegal extraction of water from a local freshwater lake. Warning letters have been issued to two salmon farmers operating in Kilkieran Bay following the discovery of an illegal pump and piping system, siphoning fresh water from a nearby lake. Galway County Council has written warning letters to Bradán Beo Teo and Marine Harvest regarding the detection…
Connacht Tribune, 06/09/15. Read the full article ‘Warning to salmon farmers over water extraction‘.

Considerable improvement for Laune salmon anglers

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September 8, 2015

Sinead Downes returns a nice little grilse at Johnston's on Thursday

Billy Downes of the Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Association reports as of Monday 7^th water level is reading .95m at the Laune Bridge or about 1 foot 3 inches. this level is OK for all methods but I would like it to be higher. A good fall of rain would be welcome. While the week was not great it was a considerable improvement on the previous two.

Sea liced fish of 8 lbs landed at Rock Pool on Tuesday

There were fish met each day but in low numbers and few of them were fresh. Billy Downes did land a sea liced fish of 8lbs on Tuesday evening on the fly at the Rock Pool. It was noticeable that the fly seemed to do better than other methods for the week.

Some or our returning European members are now putting in a big angling effort and thankfully they are meeting the odd fish. Fish being met at Johnston’s, Heffernan’s, O’Connor’s and Broderick’s.

Beat 3: There were a few fish met and lost on the Beat for the week. There are fish there in what kind of numbers it’s hard to say but it needs about two feet of water to make it fish well.

Prospects: Hoped it would be better but we live in hope that a few fresh will run into the river over the next six weeks.

Billy Downes, Secretary
Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Association

Go fishing…

Day permits will cost €35 for the months of August and September. Be sure to display your permit on the dash of your car with the date 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: [email protected]

Reminder: Start time on Beat 3 is 8am and not before that.
Trout fishing on all Laune Anglers waters and on Beat 3 is by fly only on single handed rods with trout flies. (No worms allowed for trout fishing)

More about the Laune…

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

Another Lovely 12lb Salmon for Peter Cunningham on the River Boyne

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September 7, 2015

pc2 — The Salmon Being Recuperated by Peter Prior to Release Back to the River Boyne

Unsettled and wet weather had put water levels up on the River Boyne during the last couple of weeks but over the weekend local angling guide Peter Cunningham paid a visit to the lower section of the river to see what conditions were like currently on the Rossin, Slane and District Anglers waters. The water had dropped and cleared so Peter tried a short fishing session on the fly, a session that produced a lovely 12lb fish for him. The fish was played carefully and returned to the water to recuperate before being released to continue its upstream journey.

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Make a booking

Ennell win for Mick Flanagan

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Dates to look forward to….

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To place a booking…

Rainbows on a variety of sedges and buzzers for anglers at Cashel Trout Fishery

Some nice fresh fish on the Munster Blackwater

Fort William….

Blackwater Lodge…..

Go fishing…

Go fishing…

The Munster Blackwater…

A few bass to 72cm from around Clonakilty

Go fishing…

Some good fish at Inch Beach competition

The results are as follows

Senior :

Junior:

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