Anglers on Glencar Lake enjoyed very good sea trout fishing in recent days.
Bill McNeary and Terry Bradley from the Rossinver Fishery Syndicate visited Glencar last week and reported good numbers of sea trout up to 2.5 lbs. Jim Henry and Ricky Fabozzi also scored on the lake catching fine sea trout all between 1.24 lbs. and 2.5 lbs. Sea trout angling on Glencar Lake will improve further from now on and there is always a chance of a salmon, too.
Sea trout action on Glencar Lake!
Fishing on Glencar Lake is managed by the Sligo Anglers Association, for details contact [email protected]
Cracking 5.5 lbs. Ridge Pool sea trout for Offaly angler Paul Maloney
For the second consecutive week, the Moy system produced over 600 salmon. Anglers experienced fluctuating water levels all week with catches becoming more widespread. The mid-river fisheries in particular saw an increase in catch numbers.
The Moy Fishery had a good week with almost 50 salmon being landed. On the Ridge Pool, Paul Maloney, Offaly, caught an exceptional sea trout on spinner weighing 5.5 lbs., while Spanish flyangler, Miguel Gomez Diaz, was successful on the Weir Pool.
Cracking 5.5 lbs. Ridge Pool sea trout for Offaly angler Paul Maloney
Miguel had a total of four grilse, three of which he released. Also on the Weir Pool, Jean Daniel Rouante from France had two on fly. Fly anglers on the Cathedral Beat also did well with Richard Ormston and Colin McQuire, both UK, landing a 4.5 lbs. grilse each.
The fly also proofed successful on the Mount Falconwater where Dutch visitors, Mark Geesink and Paul Vanerkemp, caught 6 grilse together. Colin Jones, UK, had two fish on worm on the Coolcronan Fishery, while Urs Inglin from Switzerland landed a five pounder on Gannon’s also on worm. The Foxford Fishery produced 3 grilse for Peter Mountgomery, Northern Ireland and German regular, Klaus Lehmann, had two on Cloongee, all on worm.
Anglers on East Mayo availed of the good water levels for most of the week with flyfishing and bubble & fly being quite successful. Amongst the lucky anglers were Steve and Josh Challinor from the UK with 4 fish between 3 and 9.5 lbs. and Jim Summers, Dublin, who had one grilse on worm.
The good Peter fishing continued on Lough Arrow during the week with anglers catching high-quality brown trout mainly late in the evenings and well into the night.
Amongst the successful anglers were Thomas Walsh with 4 fish averaging 2 lbs., Francie White who reported 3 three trout up to 2 lbs. and J.J. Mc Dermottroe with two trout at 1.5 lbs. and 1.75 lbs. respectively. However, one of the best trout for the week was caught by Paul Cullen who had a cracker of 5.5 lbs. on a Green Peter.
Jim Clohessy reports that the bass fishing has been very hit and miss this year and is still waiting for things to pick up since the season reopened last June…
Nice evening on the water!
22 July: Out yesterday and had a chance to reacquaint myself with bass.
My Best bass of the year so far! What a scrapper, real dirty head down sort of fight….Superb! Black Minnow 25g 120 did the business 68cm
15 July: There was just the right break in the weather to make a run with Kevin Murphy in a BellaVista Hotel Raider Cuddy. We fished some reefs first and then headed inshore to chase some bass. It was a cracking day from start to finish.
Beautiful conditions offshore on the reefs. Pollack were not too bad in terms of size!
We used all manner of soft lures. Illex Nitro Slim Shad 180 did very well for me as did the reliable Black Minnow.
A decent Blue for Paul Drea
09 July: Today’s trip was a blast! We were watching the smallest break in the wind pattern. Paul Rea, Sean Aherne and myself ran in Paul’s Warrior 175 “Right Catch 2”. The conditions suited a trip for shark. We spent the first part of the trip chastising the pollack on the ling rocks, the size was small. Once we set our drift for the blues we had consistent shark action. Plenty of sharks about, we were sight fishing for a finish. Good craic all round!
Go fishing…
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Congratulations to Richard Cake, winner of the Irish Bass Festival
Irish Bass Festival Results!
The Irish Bass Festival was fishing in pretty difficult conditions last weekend, the winds and weed being a real problem, but there were were a few good fish caught and Richard Cake’s 74cm fish was a worthy winner.
Congratulations to Richard Cake, winner of the Irish Bass Festival
The top three anglers were:
1st place – Richard Cake (74cm)
2nd – Ray Horgan (71cm)
3rd – Kenny Bodles (67.5cm)
Richard is no stranger to the Irish Bass Festival, having fished the competition last year, though not with such a great return. “This was my second Irish Festival,” says Richard, “blanked last year! I love this place and will be returning for it again in 2016. Very well run and always great people to meet and talk to along the coast.”
Other winners were:
Best three bass combined – Steve Richardson (179cm)
Martin Corr (Borough Sea Angling Club) caught a tope of nearly 50 lbs off Wicklow on 22 July 2015, Wicklow Boat Charters (Kit Dunne) skippered by Mick
Kit Dunne reports on the fishing off Wicklow…
Bullhuss – always popular with the anglers
We’re having great fishing lately. Anglers from Holland, Germany and England fishing with Wicklow Boat Charters have had two Specimen tope in last two days.
Anne with his 47lb, 165.5cm Tope
The second was a 47lb fish on Wednesday 22 July. The previous day was the best, a 49lb tope for Martin Corr of the Borough Sea Angling Club.
Martin Corr (Borough Sea Angling Club) caught a tope of nearly 50 lbs off Wicklow on 22 July 2015, Wicklow Boat Charters (Kit Dunne) skippered by Mick
There has been plenty of action of the other anglers on board with many smoothhounds, huss to 14lb and other species also.
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Jim Chadduck and his daughter Amy on Lough Derg where Jim had this 104cm pike
TJ O’Brien from TJ’s Tackle shop and Angling Centrein Ballina, Co. Tipperary reports on the pike fishing on Lough Derg… 16 July: Good fishing on the Lake today. We had lots of follows and ended up with 6 fish in the boat. There were some lovely pike in the mix ranging in size from 85cm up to a 1m fish caught by angler Daniel Gironde from Provence in France. Bravo Daniel! All 6 fish taken on Pig Shads. Jim Chadduck and his daughter Amy on Lough Derg where Jim had this 104cm pike which is this weeks ‘Catch of the Week’ 14 July: Jim Chadduck and his daughter Amy from Virginia were out with us today and finished up with of 3 fish. Jim was delighted with the fishing as he landed a great pike of 104cm a personal best for him. TJ O’Brien TJ’s Tackle shop and Angling Centre
Go fishing…
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Greg Latour of Tir na Spideog reports on the pike fishing at Lough Allua…
21 July: Ionly had a few hours to spare today, but as I haven’t fished Lough Allua for 9 days I had to give it a go. We had a good bit of action. There were 4 pike landed (77cm, 85cm, 91cm and 93 cm) and of course the biggest got away on the way to the boat.
A good pike in the boat ready to be released
Water temperature is still around 15 degrees – but pike have moved to 15ft. of water
Tir na Spideoga Fishing Lodge is situated on the shores of Lough Allua, about 5km from Inchigeelagh Village, overlooking a narrow but long water system, also called the ‘ Inchigeelagh lakes’. Lough Allua ranks amongst the top pike fishing waters of Ireland, regularly producing pike of 20 and 30 lbs. and still it is one of the least known pike venues on the island .
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David Edwards, skipper of charter boat Tigger, reports that they have had good ground fishing and are looking forward to trying for some of the more unusual shark species this summer…
Chris Evans with a good inshore Coalie
Cod fishing has been excellent over the last few weeks, a party of German anglers came to Ireland for the first time instead of their usual Norway or Sweden trips and over three days caught a greater total weight than they have in the last 15 years of fishing in the Nordic countries. Granted they never hit any specimen fish here but the quality and numbers more than made up for it. Although starting to tail of now we are still pulling several in every trip between 5lb – 12lb with best of the season so far going 22lb.
Skipper David Edwards with a 20lb 8oz Ling
There is great sport with inshore Coalie fishing with some fish nudging double figures. Ling have been more plentiful than recent years and best so far went 20lb 8oz on a inshore mark.
Shark fishing has been impacted by the weather but the trips we have made have seen plenty coming to the boat with several passing the magic 100lb mark. There are some long range trips sharking trips planned in August with some very experienced shark anglers and hopefully we will have something to report from then. Two good size Threshers were caught off West Wales on the weekend and with Mako’s also appearing again in recent seasons it gives us even more reason to get offshore
David Edwards Tigger Clonakilty Coastal and Deep Sea Charters
Go fishing…
Tigger is a purpose built Procharter 31 angling boat, powered by a 330HP diesel engine and equipped with all necessary safety equipment. Reef and ground drift fishing is generally the most productive method with the potential to catch in excess of 20 species if you adapt your lures and baits accordingly. From mid June through to October it’s usually possible to target the blue shark fishing that is predominatly between 10-15 miles off the estuary. All sharks are released and recent seasons have seen larger species such as mako and threshers being sighted more frequently, so who knows what will come in 2014… Web:www.irelandseaangling.com
Fishery manager Nigel Rush reports that the grilse run appears to be finally underway at Kylemore over the last few days. Good water has encouraged fish to run, and anglers are encountering grilse, some to very good size. Over the last few weeks the fishery was averaging 8 fish a week with little rod effort, but over the 9 days to the 20th they had 17 fish for just 21 rod-days, and numbers for the season are so far well up on last year.
Geoffrey Fitzjohn had a good day on Tuesday, landing 3 fish through the Upper and Middle River, lost 3 and turned as many again. This was followed yesterday by Neil Spellacy, who landed 3 fish, including 2 of 7lbs and a fish of 4lbs, and lost another fish, all from the Middle River beat. Two fish were released and one kept as it was a stray ranched fish from another river.
I stopped at the river yesterday and saw perfect water levels, so with grilse running it looks like the place to be. To book fishing, contact Nigel at 087 9580702.
