Aidan Traynor reports from the wonderful Corrib again and tells us that during the week Mike McNamara had his p.b pike.
Weighing in at a cracking 22lbs along with a 14lber. Paul Folan also had a couple of double figure pike as well and the lads released all fish safely.
https://www.fishinginireland.info/trout/west/corrib.htm
Lough Melvin Anglers’ Association celebrated its 36th Open Trout Angling Championships last week with four days of spectacular fishing on one of Ireland’s finest wild brown trout fisheries.
The small but very picturesque village of Garrison, situated close to the lough, came alive as 286 cross-channel and home-based anglers enjoyed the hospitality and comraderie of its townspeople.
Fishing conditions were ideal throughout the four days, with plenty of cloud cover and a southwest breeze….
Irish Times 07/09/2015 Read the article ‘Angling notes: Lough Melvin contest draws 286 anglers’
David McEvoy from the Delphi Fishery reports:
As is often the case with August the salmon fishing started brightly but the tapered off towards the second half of the month with the total catch for the month being forty five salmon. Conditions for the most part were excellent with again plenty of rain for one of our main Summer months. Total for the month was 173.8mms (6.84”). The river never went below 25 for the duration of the month and more often than not it was over 40.
As I said we had an excellent start to the month and the 1st was no exception with four nice fish landed. It wasn’t the biggest but the fish that caused most celebration was without doubt Jane Beattie’s fish of 6lbs8ozs off Finlough.
Coinciding with a huge flood on the Monday, week 32 proved to be the most productive of the month with twenty fish landed. The Beattie party accounted for four, Paul Wymes five, Urs six, Neville McConnell four and Conor O’Leary one. Biggest of the week fell to Paul Wymes from the Stream on Fin of 9lbs3ozs on a Foxford shrimp.
Week 33 was also quite productive with ten landed. Urs had three including the biggest of 10lbs1oz from the Turn pool on the Neighbours Cat nymph, Wayne Byrne had two in a day, Mark Corps also had two in a day, David Dunne had one and both Brian Forristal and Matt Gardinier had their first ever salmon.
In week 34 the Brennan party of Hugh and Peter Morris accounted for seven of the eight fish landed, the biggest of which was taken by Hugh in the Quarry pool on an Ally shrimp of 8lbs6ozs. Brendan Keenan also had a nice fresh fish of 4lbs in the Schoolhouse.
From then to the end of the month the salmon were really playing hard to get, with three more fish landed. David Allcutt had two, one off the river and one off Fin and Niall Green had a fish off Glencullin of approx. 3lbs. That brought our total for the month to forty five and the year to date to 335. Hopefully as is often the case in September the salmon will wake up a bit and be more considerate to those trying to catch them!
David McEvoy
Delphi Fishery
At Delphi Lodge, with many years of experience with the timing of the best runs of fish, we have in place a price system that offers both great value fishing and lets our anglers know when they have the best chance to catch a fresh run spring salmon or a summer grilse or Delphi sea trout.
Delphi Fishery
Delphi Lodge, Leenane, Co. Galway.
Tel: +353 (0)95-42222 Fax +353-95-42296
Web: www.delphilodge.ie
On Sunday 06 September, 61 anglers entered the IFPAC qualifier which was fished near Shannonbridge. The Irish Federation of Pike Angling Clubs (IFPAC) has the full report below…
We had 61 anglers competing in this leg f the qualifiers, fished near Shannonbridge. Between them they caught 260 pike to 15lb 09oz. We fished a 5 mile stretch of river on both banks. Fishing was pretty patchy apart from one section which fished really well. Five of the 6 anglers were lucky enough to have picked this section.
Results were calculated in Lukers Bar in Shannonbridge where the tired anglers enjoyed lots of sandwiches and cocktail sausages.
The top 6 who qualified to fish in the Final were
Pool winners
The Irish Federation of Pike Angling Clubs (IFPAC) is a body representing pike anglers in Ireland, North and South.The IFPAC was founded on 17th January 1988 at a meeting held at the Ardboyne Hotel, Navan. The membership for that year stood at fifteen clubs representing six hundred anglers, today membership of IFPAC is approaching 100 affiliated clubs representing in excess of seven thousand anglers from all walks of life.
Inniscarra Lake TDL reports on the Vintners Cup which was fished in a mix of bright sun and northerly breezes…
Festival mania continues on Inniscarra where 36 anglers competed in the second 3-day festival sponsored by O’Callaghans Bar & Guest House.
Catches where mainly roach and perch; skimmers and hybrids were quiet in there appearance due to the constant north breeze.
Again well done Alistair Ogilvy Sensas UK (who just won the Celtic Cup the day before) for his win of this second festival sponsored by O’Callaghans Bar & Guest House.
Inniscarra Lake TDL an affiliated club of the National Coarse fishing Federation of Ireland www.ncffi.ie. You can follow them at www.facebook.com/inniscarralakeTDL
Anglers are currently working their way through 23 days of match fishing on the prolific Inniscarra Reservoir. Fishing 12 to 5pm each day we draw at O’Callaghans at 9am daily. Bio-security procedures will be implemented.
The Lnnox Cup is being fished right now and then the Coolcower Cup is from 9-11 September…
Don’t forget to pick up your permit at the draw and pre-order your bait from Trevs Tackle Ireland.
There is a full payout on entry for all our festival!
Ned Maher of Ardaire Springs Angling Centre in Mooncoin thanks all who attended the Johnny Scott memorial competition on Sunday and wishes congratulations to the prize winners
1st Andy Coughlan with 5lb 7 oz
2nd Shane Walsh 5lb 6oz
3rd Alan o neill 4lb 11 oz
Prizes were sponsored by Alan Carroll of Custom Embroidery and the cup was sponsored by English Jim and Ardaire Springs Angling Centre
Ned tell us that there are some super rainbows being landed throughout the week with these 2 pictured took on a black minke fished on a midge tip line.
Phone Ned Maher: (0) 86 812 8937
Ardaire Springs Angling Centre
Wicklow Boat Charters Skipper, Kit Dunne tries out a new kit this week with a stunning bright green hoodie. Even this green gansey didn’t frighten the fish away. Kit tells us there are still plenty of tope about including some big ones. Below are the results of the customers competition.
CUSTOMER COMPETITIONS UPDATE AUG 28th
MOST SPECIES
1st 10 Species – Arthur Goonan, Mike Wheeler & Anne Hooijenga
2nd 9 Species – Allard Van Dyke
3rd 8 Species – Gary Blake & Niall Burke
LONGEST THREE
1st 348.5cm – Gary Blake
2nd 319cm – Niall Burke
BEST SPECIMEN
1st 19lb Hound – Gar Murphy
BEST JUNIOR
1st 18.1lb Hound – Jamie Byrne
BEST OVERSEAS ANGLER
1st 10 Species & 47lb Tope – Anne Hooijenga
Kit Dunne
Wicklow Boat Charters
Angling Charters are offered on a full-day, half-day and evening trip basis and can be tailored to suit your needs. Two boats available – Lisin and Castle Maiden. All levels of anglers are catered for. Anglers will benefit from your skipper’s angling experience and local knowledge with adviceand guidance on-hand at all times.
Specialist Angling Charters are offered for those who wish to target specific species, specimen fish or try new methods of angling.
Whether you’re a Club, Individual, School or Junior you can have an angling coaching session or programme tailored to suit your needs.
Kit Dunne
Wicklow Boat Charters,
Telephone: +353 (0)87 6832179 +353 (0)404 67031
Email: [email protected] Website: www.wicklowboatcharters.ie
Sharon Shanahan from Fortwilliam Fishery on the Munster Blackwater reports that river conditions are a little bit difficult at the moment. but that they are still taking fish on a daily basis…
Nick Rowe landed a 4lb fish and released and lost another fish off the Castle Beat.
Tim Evans Jones caught a 5lb fish off the Ellis Beat and a 3lb sea trout. James Tobin landed a fish of 5lb on fly and a 6lb off the Beech Tree. Fergus Crawford had a fish of 4lb off the Castle Beat and John Gillian also had 2 fish off the Castle Beat.
Water Clarity is about 5ft plus and the gauge is reading .20.
There were some big fish reported from the Blackwater Lodge water too on Friday. Ian Powell reports five salmon to 13lb were landed by anglers on their beats. On Wednesday two double figure salmon were caught and released.
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
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
For more information about salmon fishing on the Munster Blackwater please see the following page with a list of all the fisheries
The Dublin Angling Initiative was invited aboard the LE James Joyce for a tour of the ship today while docked in Dun Laoghaire harbour. This ship is the most recent addition to the Irish Naval Service having only been introduced into service in the last couple of months.
The ship was officially commissioned by the Taoiseach yesterday and the DAI was one of the first civilian parties to have the opportunity to tour this ship which was built in the UK over the last 12 months.
Member of Darndale`s Sphere 17 project were given an insight into Naval duties with a focus on fisheries protection and conservation. They were also informed about career opportunities and the Naval Reserve in Dublin.
Part of the Dublin Angling Initiatives remit is educating youths in fisheries conservation and protection and a relationship has been developed with the Naval Service in broadening this to include their role and how it interacts with Inland Fisheries Ireland. Past tours of Irish Naval ships has happened this year with more in the pipeline.
Settled weather in the last week should have seen angling improve all around the country but on some river and lake systems raised water levels are still impacting the fishing. It is no surprise though that sea anglers were delighted with the conditions and there is a lot of small boat and charter angling to report on this week…
The rains that fell last week pushed water levels on the Boyne right up and as a consequence salmon angling was difficult on this east coast river. Floods on the Munster Blackwater fined down to give anglers a fair chance at salmon and anglers on the Blackwater Lodge beats recorded 23 fish over the weekend. In a quiet week on the River Lee around half a dozen grilse and a couple of double figure salmon were caught. On the Bandon there was some good fishing following the flood last week and about 15 salmon were reported, most on Bandon Angling Association waters. Other rivers in West Cork had little to report last week. Lough Currane was quiet at times in the last seven days due to slack winds and certainly there were few salmon caught. The sea trout fishing was a different matter though, and one party of anglers fishing the upper loughs had over 80 juniors and a number of better sea trout to 2lb – all catch and release. The much hoped for run of August salmon never materialised on the Laune and only a small number of fish were met and caught before the end of the month. Moving north to Connemara, fishing was tough on Lough Inagh for most of August, though sea trout (and trout) were more plentiful. The Erriff had 15 salmon between 26 August and 01 September. On the 27th as many as 7 of this haul were landed included a fine fish of 13lb. Around the corner at Delphi the wet and blustery conditions made for good fishing water, but the salmon did not play their part. Just 10 fish were landed, mostly grilse between 4 and 6lb. Water levels remained on the high side for the 3rd consecutive week on the Moy. The system still produced almost 200 salmon for the week with all fisheries but the tidal section reporting some catches. Sea trout anglers are getting good fishing on Glencar Lake where the Green Peter and Teal & Yellow are accounting for some nice fish. We finish this round up of salmon reports in Donegal where there was good water on the Drowes but not many fishing and only a few grilse were taken.
The trout fishing for Sonaghan was excellent again on Lough Melvin last week, particularly from Thursday to Sunday. There were 290 rods competing in the Lough Melvin Open Trout Championships where Laurence Gibb and Fechin McMorrow were the overall 2015 winners with 8 trout. It has been such a good season on Lough Conn that many of the regulars continue to spend their days and evenings on the lake. Even through the normally slack period of late August, Conn is still producing surprisingly good results to both wet and dry flies. There were not many reports in from Lough Sheelin. Philip Reid had a 7lb trout dabbling a Claret Stimulator in the surface wave off Crover shore on Thursday, but this was the only fish seen by Philip and his boat partner for the evening.
Congratulations to Sean Markey, Jody Kiernan, Ronan Murray and Alan Heasley of Ardee who won the IFPAC All Ireland Inter Club Championships with 23 pike for 48lb 10oz. The competition was fished on the Erne system around Belturbet and altogether 238 pike to 11 lbs 14 ozs were caught and released. Pike anglers on Lough Allua in Co. Cork had great sport recently. Last week one angler beat his PB 3 times in a row catching fish up to 102cm. Over the weekend a pair of novice anglers had 8 pike to 97cm.
On Saturday 29th August, Lakelands Angling Ballinamore, Co Leitrim played host to Ireland’s premier junior coarse angling event, the All Ireland Championships. There were 47 young hopefuls at registration and though high winds and showers of rain made most methods more difficult for the juniors there were some impressive displays of skill. Under 18 winer Harry Whitehead did particularly well with 14.430kg. Congratulations are also due to Novice winner Erin Bohan, Under 14 winner Eoin Rogers and Hayden Kellegher who won the Under 23s. It’s festival mania time on Inniscarra which is currently hosting 23 days of back to back angling events. The O’Callaghan’s One Day Open was won by Steve Thorpes’ excellent 13.300kg on the pole. This was followed by the 3 Day Celtic Cup which saw Alistair Ogilvy take first place with 44.750kg. Weights have not been as good as expected coming into the competition but it is hoped that they will rise with an improvement in conditions. Ballybay Angling Association fished a match at Concra Wood on Sunday. Johnny Keith was the leader of the 25 man field at the end of the day with 20lbs 2ozs. Meanwhile 29 anglers fished the four day Ramor Festival in Virginia, County Cavan. In a close finish Lee Klimczuk was first with 35.840kg of mixed roach and hybrids.
Charter boat anglers off Wicklow have been getting some fine well marked Bull Huss lately up to 14lb. Tope have also featured in catches. More tope were reported from Kilmore Quay where one lucky angler had a fish estimated to weigh over 70lb. Small boat anglers on Cork Harbour are getting some good pollack and some nice bass on a variety of methods. Outside the harbour blue sharks, gurnards, cod, pollack and more are on offer to small and charter boat angler alike. Blue sharks were also taken by anglers out of Kinsale, Union Hall, Courtmacsherry and Castletownshend. A mix of ground fishing and skate were also reported. Catch of the Week comes from Courtmacsherry where one of the sharks from the last few days was a fine specimen over 2m long. Its no surprise that the charter boats on the Clare coast also were mixing it up with blue shark, cod, pollack and more. At one stage the Clare Dragoon was surrounded by dolphins, tuna and humpback whales, no shortage of fish there… Finally we report from Donegal where there is a shortage of mackerel – though there were still a few blue sharks about with 6 or 7 a day possible.
Apologies to Mike Dennehy for last week’s slip regarding the Catch of the Week. The fish we featured was his biggest from last year – he had reposted the fish in anticipation of this year’s tuna trials. We look forward to hearing how he gets on…
The 2nd International Sea Trout Symposium will take place in Dundalk, Ireland from 20th– 22nd October 2015. Targeted at scientists, managers and other fishery stakeholder interests in the public and private sectors, the central aim is to promote the wider application of an evidence-based approach to the future management and regulation of the sea trout and to ensure that its often very special needs become fully integrated into catchment management plans and environmental impact assessments. Anyone interested in attending can find out more at http://seatroutsymposium.org/.
There is a small craft warning in operation today. North to northwest winds will reach force 6 at times on coasts from Erris Head to Malin Head to Carlingford Lough. Tomorrow and the weekend will be mostly dry and bright but still cool for the time of year as northerly breezes continue. Highest temperatures will generally range 14 to 16C during the day. Next week will start dry and bright with good sunny spells and temperatures improving; maximum values of 16 to 18 C. Only light breezes, and fog patches will develop widely during the night-time. Rain will slowly spread from the west on Wednesday.
Safe fishing to all and tight lines, especially here in Ireland.
Myles Kelly
Catch, Photo, Release
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