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The last three days have made Tomasz Ekert of Sea Bass Hunting in Kerry work hard for the fish he caught. But Tomasz has plenty of experience and put his skills to the test. On Saturday he caught some fine bass again through the night and into Sunday morning.
Monday, three angling twelve hours and only one Bass …
Read Tomasz Ekert blog Sea Bass Hunting
Pawel Orlow from the Fishmaniak fishing club has been in touch to let us know that the club will be running their night coarse competiton on Glasshouse Lake on Saturday/Sunday 20-21 September 2014. The lads are expecting about 20- 25 members to participate at this venue. They would like to fish on the stretch indicated on the map at the link below, from barrier along the road :
The lads would like to reserve this stretch for their competition and we hope that you can assist the club with this request.
English pairing Adam Wakelin and Rob Wootton broke the Irish stranglehold on the third edition of the Lakelands and Inland Waterways World Pairs Angling Championships, fished on venues throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The duo from the English Midlands used a wealth of knowledge about Irish venues gained during a five week practise schedule in the lead up to the recent World Feeder Championships held in the south of Ireland. The meticulous attention to detail that helped Preston Innovations Team England to the gold medal in that event proved a crucial part of Adam and Rob’s week.
With the pair posting huge weights on each of the first three days, most of the other competitors felt they were out of the race well before the last day. Day one saw Rob beat the whole field with a 28.700kgs net of skimmers from Bunerky Lake. On days two and three, Adam followed up with nets of 25.600kgs of feeder-caught skimmers from Garadice Lake and then 27.900kgs of roach and hybrids from a snaggy swim at Killadeas on Lower Lough Erne.
By the mid-week stage, Adam and Rob had opened up a 40kgs lead over fellow England Feeder Team members, and last-year’s runners-up, Steve and Phil Ringer. It seemed insurmountable, but it is well known that Irish fish can suddenly turn up in huge numbers and massive weights can be caught from anywhere. The last two days became a job of keeping weight accumulating and avoiding any disasters.
The Ringer brothers continued to chip away at the lead and set a blistering pace on the last day with a 32kgs total against the 15kgs of Adam and Rob, but it was too little, too late as Individual Feeder World Champion, Steve and brother Phil once again had to settle for second place.
With two daily wins plus a lake second and lake third placing, Adam Wakelin was also out in front of the Daiwa Cup individual event from early in the week. Long range feeder tactics, long and short pole for small fish, and some long distance waggler work on the final day showed the Mansfield angler’s mastery of many methods.
Adam said: ‘We only decided to enter at the last minute, because we had a good idea of the methods needed after winning the team gold medal in the World Champs on Inniscarra Lake in July.
‘I thought I’d blown it on Wednesday on what I’d been told was a really poor peg at Killadeas. In the first couple of hours of the match, I got snagged and had to tackle up again nine times. Then, suddenly, I got a run of really big roach and my weight began to build. I had to stand on my box to get the fish up over the snaggy ledge but in the last three hours managed to put together my best weight of the whole week and another overall individual win.’
At the Friday night award ceremony, held in the swish Slieve Russell Hotel Golf and Country Club just outside Ballyconnell, there were cheers for Malaysian entrant Tengku Izzudin and the first ever women’s entrant, Fiona Beeby. Daiwa UK General Manager Robin Morley addressed the anglers and dignitaries, and stressed how influential the World Angling Pairs has become in bringing new faces to Irish angling, and renewing the interest of those who used to visit the Emerald Isle.
‘Ireland has some of the best natural waters in Europe,’ he said. ‘Despite the unusually warm and still weather conditions, the fishing was again brilliant and it was great to see an increased entry in 2014.’ Robin went on to praise the work of DECAL and IFI in stewarding the matches and assisting the anglers throughout the event before handing over to World Pairs Organiser, Kevin Locke to hand out the prizes, helped by Norma Herron of Lakelands and Inland Waterways.
The prize fund was a stunning €15,000 from Lakelands and Inland Waterways, topped up with valuable contributions from Fermanagh Council, Leitrim Tourism, Cavan Tourism and key event travel partner, Ireland Travel Plus. This enabled cash prizes to be paid starting with €10,000 to the winners, right down to the 10th place pairing of two-times event champions, Cathal Hughes and Philip Jackson.
Daiwa UK once again provided a handsome array of prizes and cash-value vouchers against their tackle range for the top individuals and the winning pair. Adam Wakelin and Rob Wootton walked away with more than £1,000 worth of Daiwa tackle and there was a further £6,500 worth of vouchers for the individual event. Adam Wakelin received a voucher for £1500 from Daiwa along with the much sought after Daiwa Cup and £1,000 cash for his individual win.
For the first time in the event’s three year history, a bait sponsor came on board. Bait-Tech provided bags of Pro Natural groundbait for each of the 138 competitors as well as tee-shirts and caps for selected achievements during the contest.
Venue Details
Section 1 Lough Erne, Crom Estate (A) and Airport/Killadeas (B), County Fermanagh
Section 2 Garadice Lake, Haughton’s Shore (A) and Kiltybarden Lake/Lough Scur (B), County Leitrim
Section 3 Horse Island, Lower Lough Erne (A) and Ross Lough (B), County Fermanagh
Section 4 Brackley Lake (A) and Bunerky Lake (B), County Cavan
Section 5 Garadice Lake, Church (A) and Connolly’s (B) Shores, County Leitrim
Day One
1: Rob Wootton, Dynamite Baits/Shimano, 28.700kgs, peg 12, section 4B
2: Carl Blurton, Maver, 28.630kgs, peg 13, section 4B
3: Rory Dunne, Sensas Ireland, 24.340kgs, peg 5, section 1A
Day Two
1: Adam Wakelin, Preston Innovations, 25.600kgs, peg 2, section 5A
2: Richie Hull, Garbolino, 24.600kgs, peg 14, section 5B
3: Stefan Gent, Maver NW, 21.860kgs, peg 9, section 1B
Day Three
1: Adam Wakelin, Preston Innovations, 27.900kgs, peg 7, section 1B
2: Arnoldas Liaukevicus, Tubertini, 18.990, peg 14 section 5A
3: Darren Davies, Drennan, 18.150kgs, peg 2, section 1B
Day Four
1: Leigh Giles, Browning, 22.400kgs, peg 2, section 1B
2: Rod Scott, Vale Royal Angling, 20.990kgs, peg 1, section 5A
3: Dean Barlow, Drennan/Bait Tech, 18.930kgs, peg 10, section 4A
Day Five
1: Cameron Hughes, Nathan’s of Derby, 23.900kgs, peg 3, section 1B
2: Richie Hull, Garbolino, 19.290kgs, peg 6, section 3A
3: Philip Jackson, Daiwa/Bait-Tech, 18.950kgs, peg 4, section 1B
LAIW Pairs
1: Adam Wakelin & Rob Wootton, 160.630kgs
2: Steve Ringer & Phil Ringer, 137.020kgs
3: Grant Albutt & James Hawkins, 127.820kgs
4: Rod Scott & Michael Buchwalder, 124.940kgs
5: Bob Nudd & Darren Davies, 121.790kgs
Daiwa Cup
1: Adam Wakelin (Preston Innovations/Sonubaits) 93.510kgs
2: Steve Ringer (Daiwa/Guru) 79.860kgs
3: Rod Scott (Vale Royal Angling) 78.210kgs
4: Grant Albutt (Bait Tech/BMW/Matrix) 77.950kgs
5: Cameron Hughes (Nathan’s of Derby) 77.880kgs
Aidan Cox, Joe White and Paddy Keogh were fishing on the Beara peninsula last weekend, staying with Paul Harris and his wife Ann in Dromagowlane House. They had many fish with bull huss, strap congers, pollock and a specimen ballan wrasse for Joe White of 5lb 2oz.
The trio fished for three days, but it was on day two that they caught the wrasse that broke the specimen weight.
Joe White tells us at irelandfishingdiaries.com that on his first cast and he was in to a small pollack. Aido helped land the fish and suggested a change to a small peeler crab, saying “Wait and see you probably get a specimen”. So Joe cast the bait out and sat there with Aido waiting for that cigar float to get dragged into the deep blue and that’s exactly what happened. He struck into it and Aido’s carp rod literally doubled over from butt to tip. Aido actually thought Joe was snagged but Joe could feel it moving so he kept the pressure on. The wrasse was taking line so so he had to feather the spool. As soon as he broke the surface Aido was straight out with the landing net and as Joe put it “Thank God, because I just landed a specimen wrasse 5.2 lb. I think Aido was more excited than me , I was just in shock!! We weighed him took a couple photos and sent him back . Needless to say we all got on the float set up and had plenty of wrasse with the odd pollock making a cameo! We fished untill the hunger took over so we packed up and headed into Castletownbere for some grub and a few cold ones and the back to Dromagowlane house for a bit of shut eye before we headed out for another night session.”
Paddy Keogh
irelandfishingdiaries.com
Anyone looking for information on fishing on the Beara can contact Paul Harris at dromagowlanehouse@eircom.net or ring him on +353 (0)27 60330.
Web sites www.dromagowlanehouse.com and www.bearaseafishing.com
The Slaney’s season will come to an end tomorrow the 16th. Low water has meant that there has been very little activity on the river in September. Once we get a rise in the water fish will be starting to get active again and it is very important that we are all vigilant against out of season fishing and spawning focused poaching.
Slaney River Trust
Web: www.slaneyrivertrust.ie
John And Stephen Wilson, Manchester, are just back home in the UK after their third fishing trip to Ireland this year.
We arrived at Grange Lodge, Strokestown after travelling overnight. From there we went straight to the shore of Gange Lough and started fishing, although we were very tired. The weather was great so we just sat down in the sun with a rod in our hands. If we caught fish it was a bonus!
We spent most of the time fishing a Strokestown lake, Lake Cloonahee. As you can see from the photo, this is a beautiful lake with easy parking and a walkway to 30 stands.
There we caught mixed bags of perch, roach, rudd and hybrids. These kept us truly entertained on what turned out to be real blue sky days. An there was also the pike that took a triple maggot on a #14 hook.
This is what happened. I’d been fishing for roach etc. with a match rod, 6lb line to a 5lb hook length and 14’s hook on which I placed 3 maggots. I was casting in and as soon as it hit the water it went like a rocket. It felt at first like a large tench. However, tench don’t take bait in that manner.
I said to Stephen, my son, that I thought I had a pike on. Three more English fishermen were close by. One said, “It will be a small Jack pike”. After about 10 minutes into the fight, they all stopped fishing to watch me trying to land it.
It took me 25 minutes to net it. I was wondering who was going to tire first, me or the pike. As it went into the net, the angler who said it would be a small jack pike was the first to start the applause and the rest joined in. One of them weighed it with digital scales and it was 14lb 3.2oz.
Not bad for 5lb line and a 14’s hook. At least I had 4 whitnesses! What a good day at the office! Well, that’s it until next year.
John & Stephen Wilson
David Tantrum and his loyal companion Heather made the most of yesterday at Knockaderry fishery in Co. Waterford. David tells us:
We have stocked Carrigavantry for the winter fishing so I decided to try Knockaderry where I caught and returned three trout including this large brown (pictured below). I was helped by Heather my fish finder!
Note that our revamped web site is www.waterfordflyfishing.ie Not .com
Competition time:
Details here on our exciting new competition for the Knockaderry Cup for 80 boat anglers The new harbour should be finished by then and we look foreword to showing participants our modern facilities. This has been made possible by Leader and Inland Fisheries Ireland funding. So come and get some practice in. The fishing will be frantic on Carrigavantry with the new stocking , so show restraint and practice catch and release and we will have fantastic Autumn and Winter fishing.
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
David Tantrum,
Waterford City and County Trout Angling Association
Email: tantrumd@gmail.com
Web: www.waterfordflyfishing.ie
Phone: 051-384428 – Pat Smith (Treasurer) + Wheelie Boat Bookings
Joe Kenna of Irish Trout Fly Fishing Association reports that Ciaran Reilly had a great day at Lough Bane on Saturday 13th September when he finished in 1st position during the 1st round of the newly introduced ITFFA Youths International Team qualifier. The new selection process requires competitors to accumulate points from two qualifying competitions from which the top 14 anglers will be selected to represent Ireland at the 2015 Youths International Fly Angling Match.
The word was out that the trout had been feeding near the surface and most anglers opted for the tried and trusted sedge and daddy combination. At 11AM the horn sounded and these young anglers set off for a challenging days fishing in the deep, clear, spring fed waters of Lough Bane. Competitors didn’t have to wait for too long to get a taster of these hard fighting browns and rainbows with boatmen barely getting a chance to take the center seat before they had to scramble for their landing nets. Lough Bane provided non-stop action all day long and when anglers returned to the shore at 5PM there were many stories of large trout that had been lost. The daddy and sedge combination proved very successful for competition winner Ciaran Reilly who had eight trout for 3480 points and Conor Murray who finished in 3rd position with five trout for 2060 points. However, it was Stephen Ryan of Macroom Anglers who decided to think outside the box and fish deep for the bigger fish. This method certainly worked well for Stephen who had the two longest fish, both exceeding the 50cm measure. Stephen finished in 2nd position with six trout for 2740 points.
Lough Bane Anglers have been great supporters of juvenile angling for many years and the Irish Trout Fly Fishing Association (ITFFA) would like to thank them for their ongoing support. We would also like to wish these young anglers the very best of luck as they prepare for the second stage of the selection process for the Irish International Team.
If you are less than eighteen years of age and are interested in participating in fly angling, you can contact the ITFFA Youth Officer, Mr Frank Dempsey on 087 235 1830.
Joe Keena
Irish Trout Fly Fishing Association
Inland Fisheries board inspectors are to hold meetings over the next three days, to decide on an emergency plan to eliminate a dangerous invasive species that is threatening fish stocks on the river Shannon. A notorious shellfish from Asia was discovered in hot water beside the Lough Ree Power plant at Lanesborough in Co Longford. The Angling council of Ireland says it has the potential to wipe out the coarse fishing sector on Lough Ree…
RTE News, 13/09/14. Read the full article ‘Asian clams invasion in River Shannon‘.
The ESB expects to be able to detect and eliminate any threat posed to its Longford power station by invasive clams. An emergency team from Inland Fisheries Ireland(IFI) was dispatched to a stretch of the River Shannon at Lough Ree Power after the invasive Asian Clam (Corbilcula lumina) was discovered earlier this week. On detecting the highly invasive clams, bosses at the IFI immediately banned fishing along the popular “hotwater” fishing stretch which is created by the power plant’s cooling system…
Irish Independent, 13/09/14. Read the full article ‘Crackdown on invasive Asian clams in Shannon‘.
