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

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IFI Staff
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A fish caught on Knockaderry on the 15th of Aug was from an April stocking and shows the pristine condition they are in
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
A fish caught on Knockaderry on the 15th of Aug was from an April stocking and shows the pristine condition they are in
A fish caught on Knockaderry on the 15th of Aug was from an April stocking and shows the pristine condition they are in and gives you a flavour of the caliber of the fish

 

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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IFI Staff
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D Reilly & M Loughlin
D Reilly & M Loughlin

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!!

D Reilly & M Loughlin
D Reilly & M Loughlin

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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IFI Staff
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Glenda with her nice fresh fish
Glenda with her nice fresh fish

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.

Glenda with her nice fresh fish
Glenda with her nice fresh fish

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

Go fishing…

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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myleskelly
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bass
The best bass of the day 72cm and fat enough to make specimen weight

Peter Aspinwall reports on the bass fishing around Clonakilty…

 

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The best bass of the day 72cm and fat enough to make specimen weight

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

Peter Aspinwall
Peter Aspinwall

Some good fish at Inch Beach competition

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myleskelly
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Inch

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.

Inch

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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myleskelly
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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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myleskelly
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Sinead Downes returns a nice little grilse at Johnston's on Thursday
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 7th 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
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.

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

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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David Byrne
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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.

A Quick Photo of a Lovely 12lb fish by Peter.
A Quick Photo of a Lovely 12lb fish by Peter.
The Salmon Being Recuperated by Peter Prior to Release Back to the River Boyne
Another Boyne Salmon Being Recuperated by Peter Prior to Release

 

Cracking 22lb pike for Mike McNamara on Lough Corrib

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IFI Staff
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Firends of Lough Corrib

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.

Firends of Lough Corrib

https://www.fishinginireland.info/trout/west/corrib.htm

 

 

Angling notes: Lough Melvin contest draws 286 anglers – Irish Times

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IFI Staff
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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’

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