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Good bags of bream and tench in Cavan areas

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IFI Staff
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Trinity Island - Johnny Hagley from Carrigallen
Trinity Island - Johnny Hagley from Carrigallen

Alice Murtagh from the Corlesmore office reports on coarse fishing in the Cavan/Leitrim area…

Some pleasure anglers fishing Lisney report plenty of Hybrids up to 3.5lb, also some bream. Local anglers fishing Rockfield bagged some Bream, while Bawn Lake Killeshandra (Sextons Shore) is also giving good Bream.  Town Lake Killeshandra, Derreis and match section Killykeen are all giving good bags of fish.  Tawlagh Lake is also giving good bags of fish.  Five English anglers fishing the Arva/Gowna area report good bags of Bream and Tench, bags up to 40/50lb.  Fishing in the Cootehill area is good with some anglers from Northern Ireland and England reporting good fishing on Drumlona and Killyvaughan, with plenty of Bream and Tench.

Johnny Hagley from Carrigallen was fishing Trinity Island on the pole with red maggots last Friday. John had  2 tench both over 5 lb along with many hybrids all around the 1  lb mark.

Trinity Island - Johnny Hagley from Carrigallen Trinity Island – Johnny Hagley from Carrigallen

Alice Murtagh
 Inland Fisheries Ireland – Corlesmore Office, Arva, Co. Cavan
[email protected]
Tel: +353 (0)49 4337174

Killeshandra

 

 

A reasonably busy at Owenea Fishery with 39 visiting rods fishing

By
Lindsey Clarke
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Lindsey Clarke reports from Owenea Fishery – Monday 20th to Sunday 26th July 2015.

The Owenea had fair water levels on Monday & Tuesday (0.2m) but the river dropped over the following days. Saturday gave fair levels again (0.18m) but Sunday brought heavy rain and the river rose rapidly to a virtually unfishable state over the day! The gauge average for the week was decent at 0.21 metres but this was due mainly to the big flood on Sunday. The river was reasonably busy with 39 visiting rods fishing over the week. There were fair numbers of salmon reported too and given here are some of the catches taken from the Catch Register in the Angling Centre. On Tuesday, Thomas Irvine recorded a 5lb grilse caught on a fly from beat 8. Hugh Frazer logged a 4lb grilse caught on a fly from beat 4 and Michael McCrory reported a 10lb salmon caught on a fly from beat 5. On Wednesday, Brian Smith recorded a 5lb grilse caught on a fly from beat 9 and Michael McCrory accounted for a 3½lb grilse caught on a fly from beat 9. On Thursday, Billy Blair recorded 2 grilse weighing 4 & 5lb caught on a fly from beat 8. On Friday, Davy Arbuckle reported a 12½lb salmon caught on a fly from beat 8 and John Joe Doherty accounted for 2 grilse weighing 5 & 6lb caught on a fly from beat 9. The forecast for the coming week is for showers that may be heavy at times and prospects are looking good for salmon angling .

Lindsey ClarkeLindsey Clarke
IFI-Ballyshannon.
email: [email protected]

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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

Some nice trout from the deep water drifts at Lough Melvin

By
Lindsey Clarke
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HF McCloy fish from Lough melvin on 27th July. Fishing well on the deeps
HF McCloy fish from Lough melvin on 27th July. Fishing well on the deeps

Lindsey Clarke reports from LOUGH MELVIN – Monday 20th to Sunday 26th July 2015.

The Sonaghan fishing remains good with some nice bags of the same reported from the deep water drifts. Usually the Sonaghan fishing tails off for July and into August but this has not been the case this season. Everything this year seems to be a month behind. The fishing and everything else this year it seems!

HF McCloy fish from Lough melvin on 27th July. Fishing well on the deeps
HF McCloy fish from Lough melvin on 27th July. Fishing well on the deeps

 

Lindsey ClarkeLindsey Clarke
IFI-Ballyshannon.
email: [email protected]

Make a booking

  • For info/boat hire/bookings etc on Lough Melvin seehttp://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

Drogheda Coarse Angling Club News and Results

By
David Byrne
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Shane O’Reilly reports on the results of Drogheda Coarse Angling Clubs 5th round match which was held on Sunday on a very wet and miserable Lough Sillan, Shercock.

Overall Result
1st Jim Reilly 8.690kg
2nd Glenn Rooney 8.295kg
3rd John Woods 7.060kg

Sections Wins
Eric Johnston and Sean Tallon

League Leaders (best 4 of 5 matches so far)
1st Stephen Wright 6 points.
2nd Glenn Rooney 8 points.
3rd Jamie Murray/John Woods 10 points.
4th Brendan O’Brien 13 points.
5th Mark Wright/Jim Reilly 14 points
6th Paul Magone 15 points.

In addition, Shane reports that due to a busy match calendar and holidays been taking, the final matches for DCAC Spring League 2015 have been put back until the following dates.
Round 6 23rd Aug
Round 7 6th Sept
Venues for the above dates will be decided nearer the time of each match.

15lb salmon for Gerald Higgins at Melvin

By
Lindsey Clarke
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Gerald Higgins with his 15lb salmon
Gerald Higgins with his 15lb salmon

Lindsey Clarke reports from LOUGH MELVIN – Monday 20th to Sunday 26th July 2015.

Once again Lough Melvin fished well this week. There was little effort for salmon as is usual for this time of the season but there was a number of grilse reported with the best salmon being Gerald Higgins 15lb fish which was caught trolling at Eden Point on Monday.

Gerald Higgins with his 15lb salmon
Gerald Higgins with his 15lb salmon

Lindsey ClarkeLindsey Clarke
IFI-Ballyshannon.
email: [email protected]

Make a booking

  • For info/boat hire/bookings etc on Lough Melvin seehttp://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

Good run of grilse continues with some 40 salmon caught for the week on the Drowes

By
Lindsey Clarke
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Lindsey Clarke reports from RIVER DROWES – Monday 20th to Sunday 26th July 2015.

The Drowes had nice water levels all week. The gauge read 0.50m on Monday and the river gradually rose for the next 3 days and the gauge was reading 0.53m by the end of Wednesday. There was then a slight fall and by Sunday the gauge was reading 0.51m. The good run of grilse continued and there were some 40 salmon caught for the week. Given here are some of the catches taken from the Catch Register at the Lareen Fishery Office. On Monday, Bruno Valian recorded a 4lb grilse caught on worm from the Otter Pool. Jim Atkinson reported 2 grilse caught on spinner and Eoin McManus had a good day catching 4 grilse weighing from 3 to 4lb on a Rapala with 2 of these being released again. On Thursday, Michael Maguire logged a 3½lb grilse caught on a spinner from Red Roof. On Saturday, Bruno Valian recorded a 4lb grilse caught on prawn from Red Roof. Michael McEvoy reported a 5lb grilse caught on shrimp from the Upper Mill Pool and Frank O’Mara accounted for 3 grilse weighing 3, 4 & 4lb caught on shrimp from the Mill Pool. On Sunday, Paul Coulter recorded a 4lb grilse caught on a fly from the Island Pool. Chris Prescott reported a 6½lb grilse caught on a spinner from the Black Water and Swiss visitor Armond logged 3 salmon weighing from 6 to 8½lb caught on Rapala and fly. The forecast for the coming week is for a good deal of wet weather which will raise levels on the river again and prospects look very good once again for the coming week.

Lindsey ClarkeLindsey Clarke
IFI-Ballyshannon.
email: [email protected]

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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)

Sedges and mayflies do the trick on Corrib

By
Markus Muller
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Declan Gibbons reports from Lough Corrib:.

Starting in the Oughterard area, Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (091-552550) reports excellent trout fishing for his clients; especially on mayfly and sedge patterns. On Saturday, Basil and Mallow angler, Neil Glavin, had 13 trout to the boat on dry mayfly patterns with the best fish being 2 lbs. 11oz. Earlier on Friday, Jim Buchannan, Armagh, fished with Basil and enjoyed a super day on wet flies catching 14 fish, best at 5 lbs. 6 oz. and all sportingly released. Limerick Duo John Burton and Mike Murphy had excellent fishing boating ten trout on wets with John catching the best fish tipping the scales just shy of 6 lbs., with all ten fish sportingly released. Good fortune continues for Belfast angler Colin Wright who fished with Basil for three days. The pair landed 39 trout on a mixture of wet and dry flies with wets out-fishing the dries. Best fish was 4 lbs. 4 oz. On Wednesday and Thursday last, Northern Ireland anglers, Frankie Martyn and Victor McKrevitt Cumber, had 11 trout for their two days angling.

Tom Kelly reports that Carlow duo, Jimmy Carew and Niall Malone, had good sport on the dap in the Oughterard area catching 7 trout over two days for 12 lbs. During the week, the Commercial Boat Club Woodquay Galway hosted the Willie Lally Cup which was won by Richard King with a trout of 3 lbs. Kevin Molloy of Baurisheen Boat Hire (087-7573782) also had good trout fishing on wet flies in the Oughterard area catching 3 trout last Friday on mayfly patterns.

On Saturday last, former Irish Ladies International, Dorrie Gibbons, hosted a charity competition which saw the proceeds go towards a sensory garden for children with special needs who attend Cong NS. Basil Shields took top prize with 4 fish and a total weight of 9 lbs. 3oz. Eddie Gibbons was in second place with 3 fish weighing 5 lbs. 82oz. Third place went to Cornamona angler Tom Doc Sullivan with one fish at 3 lbs. 16oz; Tom was also Heaviest Fish winner. Fourth was Seamus Kelly with 2 trout weighing 2 lbs. 72 oz. Top Ladies rod on the day went to Kenmare woman Niamh Breen. In total, forty-three rods caught 22 trout with a weight of 37.75 lbs. The Competition was dapping and fly fishing and could be fished on both Lakes Corrib and Mask with 15 trout (27 lbs.) coming off Corrib and 7 trout (10.75 lbs) coming off Mask. The weigh-in took place at Lydon’s Lodge Cong (094-9546053) in which a great evening was had by all.

Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge Glencorrib (087-9135222) reports of great fishing on Lough Corrib in the last week with both sedges and mayflies bringing trout to the surface. Pip Arnold from Belfast fishing with Larry over two days boated 24 trout between 1 lbs. and 3 lbs. with the majority around 1.5 lbs. All fish were caught on dry sedge patterns and yellow dry mayfly patterns and were all sportingly released. Two days with Frank Kelly and Tony Harten from Cavan produced 12 fish with the majority in the 2 lbs range and more risen and missed, while Steve Wilkinson, UK, also enjoyed a good day’s fishing on Corrib with 8 trout on wet may fly patterns. Hopefully a settled period of weather will arrive and we should see some more good fishing on the Corrib.

Fishing on Erriff remains excellent

By
Markus Muller
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Osgur Grieve reports from the Erriff Fishery:

With water levels remaining favorable, the Erriff Fishery produced a total of 32 salmon over the last week.

Reinhard Stopper from Germany had a 6 lbs. grilse on a Cascade as well as losing a fine salmon estimated at 9 lbs. after a 10 minute struggle. Neil Spellacy caught a fish of 9 lbs. which he sportingly released, while Colin Trohear landed 2 grilse weighing 4.25 lbs. and 5.5 lbs. releasing 1 of these. Gerard Garnier returned to Aasleagh Lodge having a red-letter day catching 10 grilse in one day most of them released. Other successful anglers included local man, James O’Neil, who had 2 grilse for an evening weighing 2.25 lbs. and 4.75 lbs. and John Casey who also got a nice brace of salmon weighing 5 lbs. and 12 lbs. respectively both of which he sportingly released.

To book fishing or accommodation on the Erriff, contact Aasleagh Lodge at 095 42382 or check out www.aasleaghlodge.ie

Angling more challenging on Mask as 2015 World Cup approaches

By
Markus Muller
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Ronan Cusack reports that there were large numbers of anglers out on Lough Mask this past week, as the 2015 World Cup fast approaches. Unfortunately, angling has become a bit more challenging, possibly due to the unseasonal cool temperatures and high water levels caused by the constant rain we have had to endure over the past few weeks. Fly hatches this week have been good, with plenty of sedge and mayfly for trout to choose from on a daily basis.

Ballinrobe & District Anglers held there annual club competition over the weekend. A total of 37 anglers took part, weighing in 29 fish. In first place was Kevin Sheridan, Ballinrobe, with 3 fish for 4.53 lbs. Second place went to Jonathan Craven from Roscommon with 2 fish for 3.53 lbs. and John Burke Foxford took third position with 2 fish for 3.00 lbs. Heaviest fish went to local angler, Sean Maloney, with a trout of 1.58 lbs.

Winner Kevin Sheridan and Ballinrobe & District Anglers Chairman Kevin Bettie
Winner Kevin Sheridan and Ballinrobe & District Anglers Chairman Kevin Bettie

Ennis Anglers also held a 2 day competition over the weekend, which was fished to a 14 inch limit. Thirty-four anglers competed, with only 11 trout making the cut off. The majority of boats fished across the deep in the middle of the lake but anglers struggled to get trout to measure. Reports were that trout in the deep were coming short and 13 inch fish were difficult to come across. Fortunately, the weather outlook for the weekend is for more rain and moderate winds.

Ronan also guides on Mask and can be contacted at [email protected]

Salmon fishing at Costello & Fermoyle very productive

By
Markus Muller
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Terry Gallagher reports from Costello & Fermoyle:
The salmon fishing at Costello and Fermoyle continues to be very productive with 64 salmon recorded, 42 of which were caught this month. There is concern regarding the scarcity of sea trout this year with only 117 landed to date. The good news is the sea trout rod catch has dramatically improved recently with 44 recorded in the last few days, most of which were fresh.
The highlights since the 13th July include the 4 salmon and 23 sea trout Denis and Donie landed on Fermoyle and Clogher loughs, which was a fair achievement considering the difficult conditions they encountered over the few days they fished. Neil Spellacy was not disappointed with the 2 fresh salmon he landed during his day on River Beat 1, fish of 6lbs 8ozs & 3lbs. Local angler, Myles Costello, also landed a bar of silver (7 lbs.) during his evening on RB1. Newcomer to salmon angling, Udo Nitschke, certainly earned his stripes on RB1 after he caught fish of 6 lbs. 8oz. & 4 lbs. 8oz.
Regular visitor from Edinburgh, Pete Westwater, had 2 productive days on Glenicmurrin & Fermoyle Loughs, landing a respectable 23 sea trout. Eamon O Brien fished Glenicmurrin over 2 days and was rewarded with 21 sea trout and a grilse. Finally, Geoffrey Fitzjohn and Neil Spellacy had an excellent morning on River Beats 3 & 4, both landing 2 salmon each, 3 of which were 7 lbs. and the remaining a fish of 5 lbs. 8oz. Before the sun came out they estimated that they must have encountered at least a dozen fish. Well worth the walk!
Fresh fish are still appearing on the tides and with 1.5 inches of rain last night there’s plenty of water to entice them in. For information and bookings, please contact Terry Gallagher at +353 (0)91 572 196 or email [email protected]

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