Pike on fly and surface lures in Mayo area

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July 31, 2014

Kenny Sloan reports that with high water temperatures and the lack of rain most fishing has been difficult, although some action can still be had with surface lures and fly, especially early morning…

Michael Duane from Co Clare visited the Foxford area and teamed up with local Guide Kenny Sloan. Michael decided to try his hand at pike fishing as he had never caught one before, having only been sea fishing previously.

Fishing surface lures he tempted around 12 pike, successfully landing 5. He is now hooked on pike fishing and hopes to return when the weather is cooler and try different methods.

Go fishing with Kenny…

Kenny Sloan has become synonymous with big pike in the Foxford area. Kenny can guide you on the big wild waters around him Conn and Cullen but he also has a lot of smaller waters at his disposal and even if the wind blows he always has some where to fish making your break as productive as possible.
Web: www.pikemania.co.uk

Guidelines for handling pike

Download: Pike Handling and Conservation [.pdf 850 KB]

When landed, the fish should be laid flat preferably on a protective mat and the hooks removed with a suitable tool such as long handled artery forceps or a long nosed pliers. Anglers may find it useful to wear protective gloves. Sometimes it can be easier to release the hooks by working very carefully through the gill covers.

The use of pike sacks can be used for the short time retention of fish enabling them to recover prior to weighing or photography. When weighing and photographing fish, the pike should be cradled and supported properly to avoid injuring the fish. A pike sized weigh sling should always be used if the fish is be weighed.

When being released, the pike should be held carefully in the water to promote recovery until it is ready to swim away. At all times, the pike should be returned to the water in the shortest possible time.

Low water levels hamper salmon fishing on many rivers in the Cork Kerry area

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Paul Bourke

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July 31, 2014

Eileen Carroll Murphy from the IFI office in Macroom reports on salmon fishing on a number of Salmon fisheries in the Cork Kerry area.

FOR WEEK ENDED SUNDAY 27^TH OF JULY 2014

LAUNE SALMON AND TROUT ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION WATERS AND BEAT 3

Angling Report 28^th July (Email to Laune Angling Report)

Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Association waters and Beat 3.

As of Monday 28^th July water has fallen back to under 1 foot on the gauge at Johnston’s. This water level is fine the problem is there seems to be very few fish around. There were a few anglers who had some sport with sea trout but pulls from salmon are scarce.

Permits for Laune Anglers waters cost only €25 per day up to the end of July. From the 1^st of August permits will cost €35 still excellent value compared to other fisheries and the chances of a fish.

Beat 3: With the water fallen back the best prospects on Beat 3 is for some good trout fishing with the single handed rod.

For Beat 3 Permit Costs click on: Beat 3 Permit Prices 2014

Prospects: With the Cromane nets finishing on the 31^st prospects should be getting better but not a lot will improve without a few feet of water.

Anglers please note: A ‘One Day’ salmon permit for Beat 3 only costs €25

For further up to date information look up:

www.launeanglersfishing.com ‘Water Level’ Laune Anglers on Facebook:

Facebook Laune Anglers Or: Email: [email protected]

End Billy Downes Secretary Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Association

RIVER LEE

8 salmon landed for the week all at the Kingsley Weir, best weight 7 lbs, shrimp and fly best methods.

RIVER LEE ESB FISHERY

Water levels very low, no fishing.

RIVER BANDON

Salmon fishing was poor with water conditions remaining low and little or no angling being done. Sea trout fishing improved and most anglers reported good fishing at night with wet flies

RIVER ILEN

3 fish landed for the week on the Ilen River, best was 7 lb landed by a local angler on worms.

Four nice blues for the Galway Hussy

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IFI Staff

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July 31, 2014

With the target in site and the mackerel aplenty, Skipper John Fleming of Blue Shark Angling Galway wasted no time in getting out there shark fishing. He reported Four nice blue sharks on board the Brazen Hussy 2! The sharks have finally arrived in Galway and John is ready to target them throughout the season!

To make a booking…

John Fleming

Brazen Hussy 2,

Blue Shark Angling Galway,
Phone John Fleming : +353 (0)87 7571320
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueSharkAngling

Fishing not easy on the Moy but 164 salmon reported

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myleskelly

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July 31, 2014

moy310714 — River Moy at Foxford. Courtesy of Farson digital WaterCams. Click for current conditions

Low water levels continued on the Moy and the very hot and humid weather also impacted on angling during the week. However, the Moy system still managed to produced 164 salmon for the week. Given the conditions the Moy Fishery did relatively well and 44 salmon were landed. Lucky anglers included Steve Hazeldine and James Carthright from the UK who had 4 fish to 5lb on the fly from the Ridge Pool, Andrew Craig, NI, Phil Donohue, Galway and Charlton Peters, UK who had 4 salmon to 5.5lb on fly from the Catherdral Beat and Greg McCreight and Brendan Kearney, NI, who had 2 fish to 7.5lb from Spring Wells.

Mike Bowsher, UK, fishing the Mount Falcon water had 5 salmon on worm and spinner. Paul Williams, Wales, had 3 fish on bubble and fly to 6lb at the Foxford Fsihery while Paddy McKiernan, NI, had a 5lb fish on bubble and fly at Gannons. At Clongee Jez Leech also had success with the bubble and fly landing a salmon of 5lb.

River Moy at Foxford. Courtesy of Farson digital WaterCams. Click for current conditions

Estuary

Judd Ruane reports that the estuary fishing for sea trout was poor last week and only 16 trout were caught by his anglers.

John Potters wins the All Ireland Coarse Angling Championships at Killeshandra.

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Paul Bourke

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July 31, 2014

Alice Murtagh reports from the IFI office in Corlesmore, Co. Cavan on the NCFFI All Ireland Championships which took place in the Killeshandra area. The NCFFI All Ireland competition took place on Sunday 27^th. June at Lough Oughter Killykeen (two sections) Grassy Bank and Boathouse Section, Glasshouse and Rockfield. Eighty eight anglers took part in the one day event and weights varied greatly. There was some good catches despite the hot summery conditions which did make day time fishing great. The following is a list of the winners:- 1^st. J Potters 19.320kg 2^nd. E Weed 18.680kg 3^rd. M Stone 19.260kg 4th A Lightbrown 15.960kg 5th D Gormley 13.520kg 6th P Jackson 13.940kg

Hussy delights her customers with good fishing

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IFI Staff

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July 31, 2014

John Fleming - 26.07.14 1 — Something for everybody...

Skipper John Fleming of Blue Shark Angling Galway was delighted with the crew and the fish over the last week. Plenty of smiling faces as all customers caught fish aboard the Brazen Hussy 2. John tells us that there was great mixed fishing in Galway over the last week. With good numbers of Pollack, Cod and Ling showing. The red and grey gurnards were around too and good size wrasse !

Something for everybody... — Something for everybody…

It’s great to see lots of mackerel showing and getting more consistent – next trip shark fishing !

To make a booking…

John Fleming

Brazen Hussy 2,

Blue Shark Angling Galway,
Phone John Fleming : +353 (0)87 7571320
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueSharkAngling

Day time trout on the troll, Green Peter after dark in the midlands

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myleskelly

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July 31, 2014

Michael Flanagan reports on the trout fishing in midlands…

JASON BOATS A FEW CRACKERS

I teamed up with Mullingar lad Jason McCarty last week for a few days, and we had some sport catching trout pike, and perch. The first day we trolled and spinning across Owel, and boated good pike and lovely colorful perch. Jason also spent a day on Lene and had a lovely rainbow trout over 2lbs, on a Rapala Lure. Jason will be back on the Midland Lakes quite soon, and hopefully will catch some more super fish.

ALAN ON OWEL

Alan Thomas was back drifting across the Midlands last weekend and had a few nice days fishing. Alan is from Carrickfergus and his good lady is from Tullamore, so every weekend they drop down to meet the family Alan goes fishing. The Alan lad has had some lovely days in Lough Aishling Fishery in Edenderry, and also some enjoyable days on Owel .Last weekend we fly fished and trolled on Owel and had some lovely fish. The trout have moved out deep as water temperatures are up on 20 degrees. Plenty of small fish are on the move and a few big fish are also showing.

Mike with one of his trout caught on Green Peter in the dark of night

A DUTCH OF CLASS

With the World Cup over and the Premiership coming on line we teamed up with Eindhoven angler Marc de Long last week here in the Midlands.Marc was over in Dublin for a few days with his good lady and daughter shopping, and jumped ship to go for a days fishing. We only had a few hours but caught 5 perch, 5 trout, and a lovely pike on Owel.

Marc De Jong from Eindhoven with an Owel pike - he had 5 trout before this took his lure — Marc De Jong from Eindhoven with an Owel pike – he had 5 trout before this took his lure

The photographs were gone on line straight away and hopefully we will have some more anglers from Holland dropping over quite soon.

PETER FISHING

Hard to believe the nights are closing in as we fish till dark on the lakes. The Peter fishing is producing some nice fish, and in the coming days some nice fish will be caught on Owel, Lene, Sheelin and Ennell just to name some of our super lakes. Denis Vaughan of Delvin is in top form on Ennel land I photographed him with a lovely fish last week from Ennell. It’s hard going on Ennell but he trout are top class.

Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling

Make a booking

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: [email protected] Web: www.midlandangling.com

Preliminary report on Lough Ree survey published

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myleskelly

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July 31, 2014

Download — Preliminary Observations in Relation to A Fish Stock Survey of Lough Ree in Spring, 2014.

A comprehensive survey of adult fish stocks in Lough Ree (Shannon Catchment) was carried out in late February/early March 2014. The preliminary results in relation to some of the findings and a comparison of these data with previous surveys for other Irish lakes have been prepared and can be downloaded in full here. This was the first such survey carried out on L. Ree so no comparison with a previous data set for this water is possible.

The Lough Ree the survey involved the selection of 200 randomly selected locations for sampling. A train of survey nets was fished overnight at each of these locations. During the course of the survey all live brown trout taken in the nets (and in good condition) were
released back into lake, all live pike 70cm and greater in length (and in good condition) were released and all live cyprinids/perch 25cm and greater in length (and in good condition) were also released back into the lake. Prior to release all of these fish were measured and a proportion were scaled for subsequent growth and age analysis. A total of 76 pike released were also tagged with numbered floy tags. The purpose of this exercise was to carry out an adult pike standing crop estimate for the lake – returns will be obtained from a number of pike angling competitions to be held in April, 2014. A comparison of the number of tagged and untagged pike captured by anglers in these competitions will hopefully allow one to generate an estimate of the stock.

As an addendum to this survey a dredge sample was taken at each of the 200 netting sites to establish the distribution of both Zebra mussels and/ or Corbicula (Asian Clams) throughout this water body.

Download the full report here: Preliminary Observations in Relation to A Fish Stock Survey of Lough Ree in Spring, 2014 [.pdf, 660KB]

A quiet week for angling on Lough Currane in the heatwave.

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Paul Bourke

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July 31, 2014

Ghillie Vincent Appleby reports on the salmon and sea trout fishing in the past week on Lough Currane from his blog at http://wwwsalmonandseatroutphotos.blogspot.com/

24/7/14 Again Lough Currane was on the quiet side and not surprising with little to no wind and variable and very hot, so it’s not surprising both fish and anglers alike are keeping a low profile, but at least one angler did get a bit of action in the C&R department and that was Mr. Brian Stark, who caught a nice 1 ½ lbs. brown trout on the fly, while fishing with his ghillie Mr. Tom O’Shea of www.flyfishingatloughcurrane.com I will finish on a poetic note, on a fishes right to freedom. Here, here, to the water of the brave and the home of the free, so remember please when you catch me please release me and let me go.

25/7/14 Anglers saw another hot day on the Lake and very little action even though local ghillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com did report that his client, Mr. Mark O’Malley of the UK, caught 1 Junior on the drift. And for the rest of the angling community they failed miserably in their duties and with very little wind this is understandable, and what wind was there was West light.

26/7/14 The wind was in the NW, but sadly my Noble Anglers couldn’t manipulate their flies or lures and make their fish to invest and as on one ghillie politely said no motorbikes, no fish, no photos, and there is no argument from the redundant paparazzi?? But joking apart with theses hot conditions what do you expect, even the great St. Peter would be looking up to the heavens.

27/7/14 Again Lough Currane was on the hot side, with a Gentle NW wind, and very little action, even though Local ghillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com reported that his client Mr. Mark O’Malley of the UK, caught a Trout on the drift, but other wise all quiet on the western front. You could say my fishing notes are getting like that old TV series, Peyton Place, one continuous story. Sorry for this but my Noble Angers are failing miserably in their duties in all departments. Bad conditions or not.

28/7/14 Mr. Mark O’Malley of the UK, again takes all the headlines in the trout department with 2 trout to his rod, while fishing with his ghillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com and for the rest of my Noble anglers the least said the soonest mended. On the weather front wind N light with reasonable cloud cover this morning then the sun broke out and that was that.

29/7/14 Sadly the weather takes all the headlines, Wind NW fresh with bright sunshine and very few anglers manipulating their flies or lures and on that note, I will go straight to an anglers point of view, right or wrong you decide. Any good today I asked my Noble Anger he replied, I am taking up golf, it’s a dam site easier than the fishing and you can publish this and be dammed, and as luck would have it I could hear a pro angler in the distance shouting out 4?

30/7/14 It Was a better fishing day? But alas my Noble Game fish thought other wise and my Noble fly Anglers weren’t far behind them, and you can’t catch fish from the high stool, or if you are a convert to the Golf you can’t get a hole in one in the 19 hole, “cheers” Wind W fresh and overcast and humid but cooler than the last few days.

Vincent Appleby

Eureka Lodge

Caherdaniel West,

Co. Kerry.

Telephone: +353 (0)66 9475248

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.salmonandseatrout.com

Bloody red shrimp invades Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, BBC News

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myleskelly

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July 30, 2014

A new invasive species, the bloody red shrimp, has been discovered for the first time in Northern Ireland in Upper Lough Erne.
It was found during a fish survey for the Environment Agency. The bloody red shrimp was first discovered in Ireland in 2008 in the Shannon River catchment in the Republic of Ireland. Unlike similar native species it can be seen swarming in shaded areas during the day…
BBC News, 30/07/14. Read the full article ‘Bloody red shrimp invades Lough Erne in County Fermanagh‘.

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