Ronan Cusack reports that the heavy rain over the past 7 days has raised water levels on Lough Mask significantly. Any anglers who may not have seen their boat recently may be advised to do so.
As World Cup fever builds, recent reports indicate that angling this week has been mixed, depending on weather conditions. Fly hatches have been good with plenty of sedge and good hatches of late mayfly around the southern end over the weekend.
Andrew Boyd from Galway fished with Stan McCart, Northern Ireland on Sunday and they finished with 2 trout for the day (best fish 1.75lbs). Regular Mask anglers John Brennan and Kieran Newman from Longford fished Mask in torrential rain on Saturday last and they had 3 keepable fish and a few undersize for the day (best fish 1.5lbs, all returned). Brian McInerney and Darin Gardiner from Co. Clare fished out of Dringeen on Sunday and they had 4 fish on a combination of wets and dries (best fish 3lbs). John Burke from Tourmakeady has a group of UK anglers staying with him at the moment and they have an average of 2 trout per day over the past 2 weeks on wet flies.
The outlook for the coming week is for more broken weather, so it looks like an exciting build up to the 2015 World Cup.
Declan Gibbons reports that angling on Corrib during the week gone by saw an improvement in trout angling with plenty of mayfly and sedges hatching. On Sunday, Oughterard Anglers hosted their youth competition, the Kevin McQuinn Cup which saw Shane Joyce catch 2 trout to take first prize with a weight of 1.4kg. Also in Oughterard Kevin Molloy of Baurisheen Guiding & Boat Hire (087-9604170) reported an improvement in fishing. On Friday last visiting French angler Mr. Lester landed 3 trout for a half day’s trolling. Kevin himself enjoyed good wet fly fishing on Saturday landing 3 trout. Declan McLoughlin and friend enjoyed excellent wet fly fishing, boating 4 trout with the best hitting the scales at 4lbs.
Staying in the same area Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (091-552550) reported excellent angling with an excellent second hatch of mayfly to match. On Saturday and Sunday Basil himself and Northern Ireland angler Colin Wright from Belfast had great sport, catching 24 trout on wet and dry mayflies, with the best fish being 3lbs 9oz. Michael Murphy, Limerick also had good fishing on Saturday landing 3 trout with the best fish being 2lbs. On Sunday Shannon angler Glen O’Connell had a similar day landing 3 trout with the best fish being 1.75lbs.
In the Cornamona area Tom Doc Sullivan (087-6113933) guided visiting Australian angler James Brookes from Melbourne, with James landing 2 trout on dry mayflies, best fish 1.5lbs. Tom also reported a moderate hatch of mayfly in the area. In the Greenfields area Clare father and Son Frank Guilfoyle and Paddy enjoyed excellent fishing on Thursday, boating 9 trout (5 released). Carl Clinton from Meath had an enjoyable weekend dapping grasshoppers, landing 4 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday with the best fish nudging 3lbs. Also in the Greenfields area Tuam angler Sean Naughton had 1 trout on Sunday for 1.5lbs on wet fly.
Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge (087-9135222, www.corribangling.com) reported a slightly quieter week due to unsettled weather, however guiding Belfast duo Stephen Lusty and Pip Arthur on Monday on Lough Carra they had good sport, landing 6 trout on dry olives – best fish 2lbs. Larry himself had 2 trout on Wednesday on Corrib on dry sedges, both fish in the 1.5-2lbs bracket. Larry is looking forward to settled weather for sedge fishing and reed smut in the coming weeks ahead.
Martin Kinneavy was also in touch to advise that the TAFI Connacht Cup Youths competition which was due to held on Saturday last had to be postponed due to inclement weather, and is rescheduled for Saturday, August 8th, fished from the Carrick shore. Clubs must be affiliated to TAFI, and entry details are available from Eugene Nolan on 085 2423062.
Luke Aston from Carrigaholt reports that he got out west on the reefs on Sunday and caught some fine lumps of pollack. An early start on Monday saw a few Tope on the last of the flood and then a Ray and Doggies session after a late breakfast. And on Tuesday Luke had a lovely day out with great fishing. Plenty Spurdog, Pollack and even double shots of Cod.
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Maria Fasching caught her first ever salmon and carefully relesed it
Paul Whelan from Fortwilliam Fishery reports that on Saturday, 18 July, Jack Hughes from the U.K . fishing with his brother and father had great sport on the fishery. Jack took full advantage of the took full advantage of u16’s fish for free offer and had 2 lovely fish.
Jack Hughes is now certainly hooked on fishing!
The first was a beautiful 18.5lb fish off the Castle Beat in the Weir pool which took him 35 minutes to land. This was Jack’s first ever salmon. Later on he he landed a 4lb grilse also which was released.
Ballyduff Bridge salmon fishery
At Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fisherythere was only one fish last week caught by Tuesday B Peppard had a 5lb grilse on spinner.Over the weekend there wer 4 grilse on fly on Sunday morning for Brendan o Dwyer at Ballincurrig and 1 for Mr Tony Murtagh at Ballyduff Bridge. Today, Wednesday 22 July, 3 grilse on fly have been landed so far bby Martin Cronie from Cork fishing Ballincurrig.
Maria Fasching caught her first ever salmon and carefully relesed it
Ian Powell of Blackwater Lodge reports anglers on his beats had two very fresh grilse last Thursday. One on fly on the upper river by Maria Fasching from Germany, her First Ever Salmon. Three fish (all on fly on the upper river) were landeded on Friday including a First Ever for Walter Schilling & a First on Fly for Robert Kennedy. There was one fish on fly from the upper river beats on Saturday and one on spinner before the floods came on. After a dirty flood the river began to clear and two very fresh grilse were caught for just 4 rod days on Monday. Ian tells us it should be very good as the latest flood fines off as grilse and some larger double-figure fish running the lower river with a dry week forecast by Met Eireann.
There was some great fishing last week in West Cork reports Eileen Carroll. Following the rain there were good runs of grilse, particularly in Skibereen…
RIVER ILEN
30 salmon landed, best 10.5lbs by a club member on worms.
16/07/15 It was a wild Day on Lough Currane today, even though a few boats did venture out but alas drew a blank. Staying on the weather front it has made another good flood. Will give more facts tomorrow, my net is going down, see you as soon as possible.
17/07/15 Again there was a strong wind from the West, even though there were a few boats out manipulating, sadly they failed miserably in their duties to procure a Lough Currane wild Game Fish. On the amount of rainfall there has been a total of 79.6mm so far this month and that includes yesterday where there was 14.7mm. So with any luck once Lough Currane settles down again we should see some good action. Just for the record, I get my rainfall facts from http://www.met.ie/latest/yesterday.asp
18/07/15 We Start with the early shift on Lough Currane, Northern Ireland angler Mr. Andy Wishart and his gillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com were in great form early this morning with two fine Grilse caught on the troll, both were in the 7 lbs. class. Now we head downstream to the famous Butler Pool and at www.watervillegolflinks.ie Mr. Roger Simpson, fishing with his gillie Mr. Frank Donnelly of www.lakelandshouse.com caught a fine 6 ½ lbs. Grilse on the fly and they finished their day off on Lough Currane in the Sea Trout fly department with 2 Sea Trout up to 3 lbs. Now we head up to the upper Lakes and Cloonaghlin Mr. Liam Ellis caught and released a fine Trout on the drift.
Mr. Liam Ellis
19/07/15 Lough Currane was on the quiet side in the fly department so we head straight to the trolling department, Mr. Andy Wishart was in good form again, while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com they caught a 5 lbs. Grilse. Staying in the trolling department, their was a touch of enjoyment followed by a touch sadness for Local angler Mr. Gerard Cronin of Waterville as he was trolling around and reminiscing to himself of the great days out on Lough Currane with his good friend and fishing Buddy Tommy O’Sullivan who sadly passed away earlier this year, well Tommy must have been looking down at his good mate Gerard, because it wasn’t long before Gerard caught himself a fine 5 ½ lbs salmon/Grilse, as he netted his fish he looked round as if Tommy was their and Gerard said to himself I dedicate this Salmon in memory of my school and life time good friend Tommy and it is a pity I can’t shake hands with you my great friend. May the sod rest lightly on his Soul.
Andy
Roger and his Family
20/07/15 Lough Currane was on the wild side with a strong SW wind blowing. There was only one angler that hit’s today’s headlines in the fly C&R department and that is Northern Ireland Angler, Mr. Andrew Wishart, while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com caught 3 fine Sea Trout, two in the 2 ½ lbs. class and finished their day off with a cracker of a Sea Trout of 5 lbs. and the truth of the pudding is in the eating of, as you can see from this great photo taken by Andrew before his gillie, Dominic does the honours of releasing their fine catch. for the rest of the angling community they either failed miserably to catch my Noble Game Fish or they failed to let the fingers do the talking.
Mr. Gerard Cronin caught on 19.07.2015Dominic
21/07/15 The Bungalow Takes the headlines, we start in the Sea Trout department and in the Junior Class, Mr. Tony Hall, caught 1 Junior to his fly rod, while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Tom O’Shea of www.flyfishingatloughcurrane.com now to the Italian connection, Mr. Nick Scott from Italy and fishing with his Gillie Mr. Neil O’Shea of www.oshealoughcurrane.com caught a fine 4 lbs. Sea Trout on the drift. Wind NW light with the odd light shower.
Breaking news just in. Got this one off of Church Island today on fly 3.5lbs on a prototype fly.. Got a few more small lads all returned.. Tks Mike O Driscoll
Mike O’Driscoll
This last week has seen a number of fish caught mostly in the 3 to 5lb bracket! The seatrout are starting to co-operate again!
That is your ration from the opening days on Lough Currane, from your Gillie and the Waterville Fishery, no spin no fly’s just facts. Vincent Appleby
The rivers and lakes of Waterville drain a large catchment and are regarded by many as the foremost Salmon and Sea-Trout fishery in the country. The lake system is well developed with access to boats and guides being readily available to the tourist angler. The Sea-Trout caught here are renowned for their size and quantity. For more details see Waterville lakes and rivers system
Today’s conditions on the Bandon. Water levels for the Bandon can be checked on the Farsom Digital Watercams site.
Eileen Carroll reports that the good fishing of the previous weekend fizzled out very quickly even though water levels and conditions were perfect and there was only about a dozen fish reported for the week.
Jason Nash 5 pounds
As of early this week the Bandon Angling Association tells us that they have the best summer fishing conditions they’ve had in a couple of years. Peter Aspinwall reported great sport on 21 July with a 9lb fish and Jason Nash had a 5 pounder, both as fresh as daisies. Fly fishing is still proving to be the most productive method.
The River Bandon is a most scenic and prolific game fishing river flowing through some of the most picturesque country side in West Cork. It’s source is a few miles north west of Dunmanway from where it flows through that town and and on through the villages of Ballineen, Enniskeane, Kilcoleman, Bandon and Innishannon where it become tidal and widens into an estuary before meeting the sea past Kinsale.
Waterville House and Golf Links report on two more salmon caught this week. The first was a 6 ½ lbs fish which was caught by Roger Simpson who enjoyed the fly fishing at the Butlers Pool. Smiles for Roger at Waterville…
PJ Lynham was out early also at Waterville House Butlers Pool and he had a fine 6 1/2 lbs salmon. Early morning man PJ Lynham with his salmon…
Eileen Carroll, IFI Macroom, reports that for the past three 3 weeks about 18 salmon, mostly peel, were landed. Most of these were landed last week averaging 2lbs – 4lbs. Best methods flies and spinning.
RIVER LEE ESB FISHERY
19 July: Three anglers from Co. Antrim, Ryan Richardson, Stephen Richardson and Jim Richardson, between them had 10 salmon including some peel for the week, ranging from 3.5lbs up to 9lbs, landed on shrimp. Noel Kavanagh, Cork, had 1 salmon weighing 5lbs landed on a fly. An unknown angler returned a peel of 2.5lbs.
Go fishing…
The River Lee drains a catchment of 484 square miles of which much is taken up by two large reservoirs. Salmon Angling is confined to an 8 mile stretch from Inniscarra dam to Cork city… https://fishinginireland.info/salmon/southwest/lee.htm
Eileen Carroll in IFI’s Macroom office has the news from the Laune system…
There are no reports of salmon of the Killarney Lakes, Lough Lein, the Killarney Flesk or Beats 1 and 2 on the River Laune.
Billy Downes of the Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Associationreports that as of Monday 20th July the water level is at 1.36m at the Laune Bridge or just over 2 feet at Johnston’s. Beautiful water for all methods and will be clearing to even better condition today and for the rest of the week.
Conditions beautiful but despite a good angling effort over the weekend news of fish is extremely scarce once again.
At Johnston’s last evening all I saw landed among six anglers was one small grilse which had been through the wars in the estuary and was marked on both flanks.
Beat 3: The Beat 3 water level is lovely just now.
Permits for Laune Anglers waters from now to the end of July only €25 per day.
