Tomasz Ekert of Sea Bass Hunting believes if at first you don’t succeed try the night time ! And he was right, Tomasz caught some beautiful bass while fishing in Tralee including his biggest bass this year which is pictured in the lower picture measuring 65cm.
Read Tomasz Ekert bolg Sea Bass Hunting
Gary Robinson was out at the weekend after a long absence from the world of angling. His new college timetable allows him an afternoon on Mondays and he jumped at the chance…
Having had a slow day on the water on Sunday Gary decided to try another part of Galway Bay yesterday and the change of venue brought more than just a scenery. Fishing around rocky outcrop used as a roost by sea birds Gary confirmed suspsions that there was good rough ground fishing, first with the fish finder and then with the first cast of the day. He was expecting pollack but was not disappointed by the 2lb wrasse that hit the soft plastic lure.
This proved to be the first of many fish caught over 2 hours with nearly a fish a cast to keep him entertained. The smallest on the day was 1.5lb. The mark is just out of reach of shore anglers and too rocky for boat anglers, so he’s looking forward to returning to try his luck again.
Gary Robinson
kayakfishermanireland.com
Gary discovered the thrill, freedom and pure joy of kayak fishing almost by accident. After purchasing kayaks with the intention of paddling trips with his long-suffering partner, he started to assess the suitability of such a craft as a fishing platform. Some internet searches showed him that he was not alone in his thoughts. America and Australia already had blossoming populations of kayak anglers. Needing no more encouragement, he set about rigging his first sit on top kayak and transforming it into a fishing platform to gain access to some of the more inaccessible waters. Now into his fifth year of kayak fishing he shows no sign of slowing down.
Find out more about Gary and his adventures at www.kayakfishermanireland.com
Last Sunday September 7th Lough Owel Trout Preservation Association hosted their last fly-fishing competition of 2014 and Michael Flanagan has the results here…
Last Sunday the Clonhugh Cup was up for grabs, and also on offer was the Tommy Mc McCormack Cup for angler of the year. The lake produced some super fish, and it was a rainbow of 1.975kg that stole the show. In recent times quite a few rainbows have featured from Owel, which is classed as a brown trout fishery. It was a good day for local anglers and Ciaran Newman of Lynn finished 2nd wit ha brown trout of 1.135kg. Eugeen Fagan, originally from Multy now a seasoned Dub, was 3rd with 1.075kg. and young Frank Keena finished 4th with 1.010kg trout.
Top junior angler was Niall Tyrrell with a fish of 0.480kg.
The Tommy McCormack Cup is presented to the angler who produced the best gross weight of fish from L.O.T.P.A. competitions in the season. Mick McCormack was in cracking form all during the season on Owel, and had a combined weight of 8.130kg to take home the Tommy McCormack Cup.
That’s the last L.O.T.P.A. club competition of 2014, but on October 12th, the last day of the trout season, they host the end of season competition. More on this in the coming weeks.
Aishling Carroll of Moyliscar is back home on holidays from Australia, and is having a ball in her hometown. This time around Justin Brady of Kilmore Victoria in Australia is on board, and he is nuts on fishing and shooting. Justin is having a ball here in Mullingar and we had some lovely trout from Owel earlier in the week, and we are planning a day at the pike before he heads home.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Midlands Angling provide a top class Guiding service covering many of the top coarse and game waters across the Midlands. Visiting fly anglers have landed some fine trout while out with Midland Angling Guides, pike anglers also recorded some net bursting catches including many pike over 20lbs. Top waters include Lough Ree, Ennell, Owel, Lene, Mount Dalton, and Glore Lake just to mention a few.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Pike and Trout angling guide.
Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270
Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781
Email: mick@midlandangling.com Web: www.midlandangling.com
Michael Flanagan reports on a pike fishing session on Lough Ennel where old an new both caught pike…
Last week Stan Ryan and pal Justin Gordon had some cracking pike from Ennell. It was certainly hard going in flat calm conditions, but we had some lovely pike on a variety of colourful Lures.
Justin had 3 pike on spoons trolled at snail pace behind the reliable Honda, and Stan had a few new Zalt lures that the Ennell pike could not resist. David O’Malley has a few Zalts left and they will work as we drift into the winter months.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Midlands Angling provide a top class Guiding service covering many of the top coarse and game waters across the Midlands. Visiting fly anglers have landed some fine trout while out with Midland Angling Guides, pike anglers also recorded some net bursting catches including many pike over 20lbs. Top waters include Lough Ree, Ennell, Owel, Lene, Mount Dalton, and Glore Lake just to mention a few.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Pike and Trout angling guide.
Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270
Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781
Email: mick@midlandangling.com Web: www.midlandangling.com
Colum Walsh in our Limerick office reports that Jack Killeen, Limerick, caught this fine 4 lb Salmon on the Mulkear River last week at the Long field stretch. Jack hooked his fish not long after starting his day fishing on Monday 1st September, on a silver and red Flying C.
Jack has been angling for salmon on the Mulkear since 1949 and can remember back to days of using large and heavy greenheart rods, some which were home made.
On the day in question Tommy Hickey aided Jack in the landing of the fish.
Conditions on the Mulkear at present continue to run into low water levels as a dry spell is forecast for the coming week.
The fishery is primarily a grilse or summer salmon river but does enjoy a small run of spring salmon. The Mulkear is an unlimited access fishery controlled by the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) whom you pay a permit charge to fish. Noted hotspots are the Long Field, Boher, Brittas and Drumkeen. Find out more about salmon fishing on the Mulkear.
Wicklow Boat Charters enjoyed catching loads of different fish at the weekend – bream, pollock, coalies, cod, tope, dab, poor cod, tub and grey gurnard the usual dogs. Next on the list are the spurs…
Kit Dunne
Wicklow Boat Charters
Angling Charters are offered on a full-day, half-day and evening trip basis and can be tailored to suit your needs. Two boats available – Lisin and Castle Maiden. All levels of anglers are catered for. Anglers will benefit from your skipper’s angling experience and local knowledge with adviceand guidance on-hand at all times.
Specialist Angling Charters are offered for those who wish to target specific species, specimen fish or try new methods of angling.
Whether you’re a Club, Individual, School or Junior you can have an angling coaching session or programme tailored to suit your needs.
Kit Dunne
Wicklow Boat Charters,
Telephone: +353 (0)87 6832179 +353 (0)404 67031
Email: dunnekit@gmail.com Website: www.wicklowboatcharters.ie
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Mr. Alan Kelly TD today launched a brand new website dedicated exclusively to the promotion of the inland waterways of the Lough Derg region.
www.discoverloughderg.ie provides visitors to the region with information on places to visit, events, accommodation providers and restaurants, special offers, and land and water based activities.
The website is one of a number of marketing initiatives being rolled out over the coming months and during 2015 to establish the Lough Derg area in counties Clare, Galway and Tipperary as Ireland’s premier lakeland destination….
Afloat.ie 08/09/2014 Read the article ‘Lough Derg Gets Its Own Dedicated Tourism Website‘
Lough Melvin was fairly slow. Anglers reported a few sonaghan caught but the going was tough and each fish was hard earned. There was very little effort for salmon and I have not heard of any caught to date.
Monday 1th to Sunday 7th September 2014.
There was fair water on Monday (0.22m) but thereafter there was dry weather and the river fell as the week progressed to give low summer conditions. The gauge average for the week read 0.13 metres and the river was understandably quieter with only 6 visiting rods fishing over the week and only a few salmon recorded.
On Monday, Pierre Rumeau recorded a 2½lb grilse caught on a fly from beat 7. On Tuesday, Bernard McNeilis reported a 4lb grilse caught on a fly from beat 8 and on Sunday, Niall Hosey accounted for a small grilse caught on worm from beat 8.
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
Monday 1th to Sunday 7th September 2014.
The Drowes ran at low levels once again all week. There were few rods fishing but there was a few grilse recorded. There seemed to be a few more salmon about this week, probably due to the big spring tides, but most rods reported that the fish were very dour and hard to tempt by any method.
For info/bookings etc on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin see http://www.drowessalmonfishery.com/ or Tel: 071 9841055 (8am to 12 noon).
