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Heavy swells limit angling from west Clare marks

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myleskelly
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Clare
The best wrasse of the session weighed 4.65 lbs

Bill Ryan is back in West Clare on his annual Wrasse fishing expedition. So far he has only managed to fish one day out of three due to a heavy swell which has been making any rock fishing extremely dangerous.

The one day lull allowed him to fish safely at the Bridges of Ross where the wrasse were plentiful with several over 4 lbs. The best of these weighed 4.65 lbs.

Clare
The best wrasse of the session weighed 4.65 lbs

 

Crab fished on light tackle accounted for all the fish.

All were returned alive.

Bill hopes to get out again if conditions improve and maybe connect with the triggerfish which can be caught from marks in Clare from August to September.

West Cork rivers are fishing well

By
IFI Staff
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Eileen Carroll Murphy IFI reports from the West Cork rivers:

River Ilen

For the past three weeks, there were 50 salmon landed, best was 10.5lbs by a club angler on worms.

Coomhola River

For the past three weeks, there were 12 fish landed, best was 9lbs by a club angler on worms.

Ouvane River

For the past three weeks, there were 11 fish landed, best was 7lbs by a local angler on worms.

Eileen Carroll Murphy,
IFI Macroom

All the news from a low water level Bandon

By
IFI Staff
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Eileen Carroll Murphy IFI reports from the River Bandon up to  23rd August 2015:

River Bandon

Week-ended 9/8/15      The river fished well again last week with good numbers of salmon and grilse running the river. There were a number of good salmon 10lb to 15lb reported as well as some really nice grilse of 5lb to 7lb.  Most successful methods were fly and worm.

Week-ended 16/8/15    This week was a quiet week on the river. There were only a few fish running as the water was low. There are resident fish in the system but are coloured and not inclined to take.

Week-ended 23/8/15  There was little angling done last week as the river dropped off to low conditions.  There were a few fish taken on the lower river by anglers fishing shrimp below the town of Bandon.

Eileen Carroll Murphy,
IFI Macroom

A very quiet week on the river Lee

By
IFI Staff
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Eileen Carroll Murphy IFI reports from the River Lee:

River Lee

For the past three weeks there has been very little fishing effort, no catches to report but some peel have been sighted.

Eileen Carroll Murphy,
IFI Macroom

Lovely Shannon bream for Madcap Anglers

By
myleskelly
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The Madcap’s, Midlands Coarse & Pike Anglers, report from their latest match on the Shannon…

23 August: Trevor Wykes won the day and our admiration with a very impressive weight of huge bream and perch weighing in at 24 kg 230 grams.

bream
Trevor came first with an impressive haul of quality bream

Gerry and Gary came second with a very respectable weight of 14 kg 457 grams also Gerry got his new personal best bream today of just over 7 lbs.

Congratulations to Trevor who now holds the club record for heaviest bag of fish!

Join the Club…

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

 

Nice weights for canal anglers at Rathangan

By
myleskelly
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The NCFFI reports that a number of English anglers make the journey each year to support this two day festival run by Prosperous Angling Club in memory of the late Ned O’Farrell. There were less locals this year with many off to pick up a big prize on the Barrow, there were just 18 fishing. Rathangan was the venue choice on the Grand Canal providing easy access to all pegs.

Good quality canal fish
Good quality canal fish

The water was coloured with a good tow from left to right making for perfect conditions on day one and some good weights with skimmers and bream appearing. Alas, the colour dropped out on day two and the flow ceased and the top weight was just 12lb.

Rathangan can be a productive venue
Rathangan can be a productive venue

Never the less it was enjoyable fishing albeit a little wet and regular Martin Lenihan from Warrington, UK was delighted with his winning weight of 32lbs 11oz and his winnings of over €200. Royal Enfield CAC’s Aidan Gill came second with 29lbs 13oz with Sid Baldock from Loughborough, UK in third place with 24lbs 10oz. Local angler Sean Ward from Prosperous AC took the final payout with his 20lbs 8oz fo 4th position.

Report compliments of:

NCFFI National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland

Web: http://www.ncffi.ie/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coarseangling

Great run of sea trout at Owenmore Fishery, White Lake fishes best

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myleskelly
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Frank Maunsell from the Owenmore Fishery reports:

The Boats on the two lakes were booked out at the week end by the same group. The White Lake fished very well on Saturday and Finnertys was a bit dour – there were only a few fish caught in it. The lads on the White Lake said they met fish on every drift. The fish averaged a lb to 1 1/2 lbs and they reckoned they landed over 25. They saw one fish of about 5 lbs jumping in the water and two or three good fish came to the fly and swirled and left it. That has been happening all the year.

We had a flash flood yesterday and the river rose by 18 inches so with the constant showers it will fish well for the next few days. A lot of the fish caught in the lakes over the week end were bars of silver which means they are still running straight through.

Frank Maunsell
Owenmore Fishery

Make a booking

There are approximately five miles of fly fishing along the main part of the Owenmore River in Kerry, with 33 named pools and an additional 180 acres of lake fishing in this Kerry beauty spot. The salmon, grilse and sea trout begin to run in April. The runs continue through spring and summer into early October.

Telephone: 066 7139408 Mobile: 087 9476309

Email: [email protected]
Web: www.owenmorefishery.ie

Big flood on Owenea, no salmon catches to report

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Lindsey Clarke
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23 August: The Owenea remained fairly low for the greater part of the week. The gauge varied from 0.10m to 0.14m until Sunday when we received a big flood reading 0.56m due to the constant rain all day. The gauge average for the week was 0.19m and 26 visiting rods fished for the week. To date I have no reports of any catches however.

Make a booking

For info/bookings etc on the Owenea Fishery –
Tel: 074 9551141. (9am to 1pm April to May & 7am to 1pm June to Sept).

For beat maps and more visit https://www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/north/owenea.htm

Good trout fishing on Melvin last week

By
Lindsey Clarke
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Ewan with one of his trout
Ewan with one of his trout

23 August: Melvin fished very well again this week for trout. There were good reports of decent bags of Sonaghan caught from the deep water drifts off Maguire’s Island, Breffni, Roosky Point etc. Darren Maguire had a good day’s fly fishing at the weekend catching a 6lb 4oz trout, a grilse and hooking and losing another grilse.

Ewan with one of his trout
Ewan with one of his trout

Thomas MgGrory and his son Ewan fished the lake for three days last week.

perch
Another fish to Ewan. Perch this time, he out fished his dad with ease

 

Ewan caught seven trout and two large perch for the three days. Tom caught three lovely trout, one was about 2.5lb.

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Thomas made up for the drubbing by getting a good trout of about 2.5lb

The Garrison & Lough Melvin Anglers Association held the 3rd round of the Tony O’Brien Cup on Sunday, fished out of Garrison. Local anglers Seamus O’Dare from Derrygonnelly won the overall competition with 8 trout caught. The day’s Pairs Competition was won by Ronnie & Gordon Law with 8 trout caught.

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.
  • For bookings/guides etc on the Rossinver Fishery contact Bill McNeary, Tel: 071 9854930

A few grilse about on the Drowes and Lough Melvin

By
myleskelly
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water levels
The River Drowes at Kinlough - 25/08/15

River report 17 August- 23 August

There Drowes had lovely water levels all week again. The gauge at the Four Masters Bridge read 0.59m on Monday. The river then steadily fell and by Sunday morning the gauge was reading 0.55m. However, rain all day on Sunday meant that the river rose rapidly and by the end of Sunday the gauge was reading 0.61m and still climbing!

water levels
The River Drowes at Kinlough – 25/08/15 – Courtesy of Farson Digital Watercams

 

The river was fairly quiet over the week with a few more rods fishing at the weekend. There were a number of salmon recorded over the week however. Nash McDaid recorded 2 grilse weighing from 3 to 4lb caught on a Flying ‘C’ lure from the Mill Pool and below Lennox’s Bridge and Nigel Abraham reported 4 grilse weighing from 3 to 5lb caught on a spinner with 3 of these released again.

With good water levels assured, prospects look good for the coming week.

Lough Melvin

Darren Maguire had a good day’s fly fishing at the weekend catching a 6lb 4oz trout, a grilse and hooking and losing another grilse.

Make a booking

For info/bookings etc on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin see http://www.drowessalmonfishery.com/ or Tel: 071 9841055 (8am to 12 noon).
Shane Gallagher
Drowes Salmon Fishery
T: +353 (0) 71 98 41055
M: +353 (0) 87 8050806
http://www.drowessalmonfishery.ie/reports/

More boat hire

  • For info/Guides/boat hire on Lough Melvin contact Sean Maguire’s Tackle Shop, Main Street, Garrison.
  • For bookings/guides etc on the Rossinver Fishery contact Bill McNeary, Tel: 071 9854930
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