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31.2 lbs pike for World Cup Champion Senan Stanley

By
Myles Kelly
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31lb pike for Senan Stanley, Lough Derg
31lb pike for Senan Stanley, Lough Derg

Hot on the heels of winning the WORLD CUP with teammate Willie Dunne at the Lough Ree International Pike Festival, Senan Stanely has caught a PB for the ages…

07 May 2026: There she is, new Pb set at 125cm and 31.2 lbs ! I didn’t think they existed after fishing this lough my whole life since I was 7 years of age, it just shows what can be lurking in the deep!

31lb pike for Senan Stanley, Lough Derg
31lb pike for Senan Stanley, Lough Derg

The best of 15 pike today with my young 11 year old guest catching all the other fish of the day, love it!!

World Cup win

This was one of the most intense and exciting pike fishing competitions we’ve ever taken part in, going up against top anglers from around the world. In this video, you’ll see:

  • Huge pike catches 🎣 T
  • he tactics and methods we used to win
  • Behind-the-scenes action from the competition
  • What it takes to compete at an international level

Go fishing…

Senan Stanley Fishing

Address Garrykennedy Tipperary Ireland
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Loughs Barfinnihy and Fada fishing well

By
Eileen Carroll
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Barfinnihy Lake

Loughs Barfinnihy and Fada in County Kerry opened at the weekend. These popular venues are fishing very well.

There are boats for hire on Lough Fadda. Access on Lough Barfinnihy is open and excellent, the rocky shoreline 100% fishable and the sparkling clean, clear lake waters especially attractive.

Permits are available online.

Go fishing…

LOUGH BARFINNIHY

LOUGH FADA

Just one salmon reported from Killarney area last week

By
Myles Kelly
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Flesk River in Killarney, Ireland
Flesk River in Killarney, Ireland

Salmon anglers in the Killarney area continue to endure poor conditions as water levels on the Laune remain low, while levels on the Flesk are described as very low…

River Laune

There were was just 1 salmon reported last week. The fish, weighing 8 lbs was caught on  Beat 2 by an angler fishing the spinner.

River Flesk

No salmon reported.

Killarney lakes

No salmon reported.

Go fishing

Rivers Laune and Killarney Lakes system

Trout fishing still to pick up on the Bride

By
Myles Kelly
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River Bride
River Bride at Tallow

Conditions were good on the Bride last week, but there were no great reports from the trout anglers fishing the river. Heavy rain arrived towards end of week but the river is still in good shape.

Go fishing…

There are a number of angling clubs on the Bride centred on Tallow, Conna, Castlelyons, Glenville/Kildinan and Rathcormac. Day tickets and often membership is available in local shops, pubs and post offices.

River Bride

Another quiet week on the Munster Blackwater

By
Eileen Carroll
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The River Blackwater is coming into perfect May conditions. at Blackwater Salmon Fishery

Conditions on the Munster Blackwater  were good last week, but there were no signs of any fish on the move.

There does not seem to be much angling activity on the river and no catches were reported to our offices.

Go fishing…

Guided fishing, clubs, private fisheries etc

Blackwater Salmon Fishery

Blackwater Salmon Fishery has 3 beats downstream of the weir and 2 upstream of the weir. Blackwater Salmon Fishery offers fishing on approximately 5 miles of the river Blackwater. The fishing is spread throughout the middle section of the river to offer good sport throughout the fishing season. Due to the location of the beats, fishing can still usually be offered in low or high water.
Contact Glenda Powell: Lismore, Co Waterford,
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +353 (0) 872351260 Telephone: +353 (0) 5853929
Web: www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com

 

Blackwater Valley Fishery

Salmon, Sea trout and Brown trout fishing on prime fishing beats River Blackwater Co. Cork and Co. Waterford Ireland.

Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +353 (0) 87 690 5467
Web: facebook.com/Corkwaterfordfishery

Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages

Fortwilliam Fishery offers two miles of double bank salmon and trout fishing over five beats on the river Blackwater.
Our salmon include – Springers, May Salmon, Grilse, Back End Salmon, and in Summer sea trout.
Our beats provide a wide variety of water, suitable for both beginners and the more experienced fishermen.
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Web: www.fortwilliamfishing.ie Email: [email protected]
Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299

Blackwater Salmon and Trout Fishery

Blackwater Salmon and Trout Fishery control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater.

Contact  Jason Corcoran:
Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.

Tel: +353 (0)586 0146
Mobile: +353 (0)87 720 5690
Web: www.blackwatertroutandsalmon.ie

Careysville Fishery

Careysville Fishery offers some of the best salmon fly fishing in Ireland and includes 26 named pools. It is considered by many to be one of premier beats for salmon fishing in Ireland. Wading is excellent and among the numerous streams, pools and glides there is a great variety of fly fishing to suit both complete novice and challenge the most competent of fly casters.

Careysville, Clondulane, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
Email:  [email protected] Mobile: +353 (0)86 2378788
Web: http://careysville.com/careysville-fishery/

Lismore Castle Fishery

At Lismore Castle & Golf Course Fishery, we offer nearly two miles of two inter-linked beats, the Castle Beat & the Golf Course Beat.

The legendary Castle Beat consistently ranks as one of the top Salmon beats on the River Blackwater, for the number of Atlantic Salmon caught per rod. The Golf Course Beat offers about 1.5 miles of fishable water through meandering majestic countryside. The Golf Course beat offers a number of bewildering pools suitable for unmatched spinning and bait fishing.

For bookings contact Joe Willoughby on Mobile no. 00353 87 8295449 or Email: [email protected]

Website: www.lismorecastlefishery.com

Blackwater Salmon Anglers, Mallow

We provide Day Tickets for some prime Salmon fishing in Mallow Co. Cork. We have excellent fly water, shrimping worming and spinning also. We also have very competitive Day rates and we have very recently upgraded our fishing.

Tickets available from “The Bridge House” and “Vincent Downes Menswear” Mallow.

Facebook: Blackwater Salmon Anglers

Upper Bridgetown Salmon Fishery

Located on the Munster Blackwater in the south of Ireland. Situated mid river between the towns of Fermoy and Mallow. A productive left bank beat in stunning surroundings.

For bookings contact Conor Arnold: +353 87 755 4682

Facebook: Upper Bridgetown Salmon Fishery

Loungueville House Salmon Fishery

For details on availability and conditions of fishing for salmon and trout on the Longueville House waters please contact them at
Contact : Longueville House Hotel, William O’Callaghan
Address : Mallow, Co. Cork.
Telephone : 00 353 22 47156
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.longuevillehouse.ie

Three salmon off the Bandon last week

By
Eileen Carroll
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River Bandon

The River Bandon saw a few salmon caught last week. There wwas good water on the river which suited anglers and 3 salmon were reported caught. The best of these was a 10lb fish caught on spinner by a club angler.

Go fishing…

River Bandon

14.5lb salmon reported from the Lee

By
Eileen Carroll
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kingsley weir

Anglers on Cork’s own lovely Lee reported good conditions on the river last week. There was just one fish reported but it was a good springer which weighed 14.5lb and was caught on a spinner.

Go fishing

River Lee

A fish every 3 minutes on the water for Paul at Lanesborough

By
Myles Kelly
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Paul with one of his roach
Paul with one of his roach

Paul Waghorne reports once more from Lanesborough…

The annual Roach run at Lanesborough came to an abrupt end last week with catches dwindling to only a few stray cock fish inhabiting the former hot water stretch. Unlike years long gone, there are no Hybrids, Tench or Rudd of any serious numbers to replace the thousands of Roach that were enjoyed by those ‘in the know’

Roach

In 2025 the conditions were simply not right, but this year, the water was at a perfect height to create sufficient flow through the Longford side of the river enabling Roach migration for spawning. The year group that produced several pound plus fish two years ago, have matured to near specimen proportions and evidence suggests that these fish were born after the power station closure, so perhaps next year these will be truly magnificent?

Paul with one of his roach
Paul with one of his roach

The best roach I saw was caught by accident. A local lad spinning for pike, foul hooked a fish considered to be well over 2lbs.

In the seven days since the main shoals came into the stretch, I fished 12 sessions (42.5 hours) and caught 766 fish with 44 over a pound including,-

  • 1lb 13oz Roach
  • 1lb 10oz Roach
  • 1lb 9oz Rudd/Roach hybrid
  • 1lb 8oz Roach
  • loads weighed 14-15oz

That works out at around 1 fish every 3 mins 20 sec and an estimated total weight of 325lbs which equates to an average of over 6oz per fish, I think is quite impressive?

Tench

So after spawning was complete, it was time to venture onto a different species. Tench are always high on my target list and whilst I’d already had great success on my first session at a small Longford lough, the Strokestown lakes were the main priority. Lough Duff, O’Donragh and Lough Lea all produced several Tench and a solitary Bream of 5lb 10oz.

A weekend trip to the River Robe was not quite as expected. Steven Keogh and myself baited an area noted for Bream but just as we started, a group of ‘non anglers’ proceeded to fish almost over my shoulder without the etiquette normally associated with angling. We didn’t take long to move on… so it was back to Strokestown where Steven had 8 Tench leaving me blanking.

Karol from Ballyjamesduff 11 Tench from his local Lough
Karol from Ballyjamesduff 11 Tench from his local Lough

Thankfully, one of my other lakes produced on Monday resulting in 12 Tench to 4lb 2oz. I inherited the chosen swim from a young angler who had 11 Tench on a feeder. Currently, I’m now up to 93 Tench for my trip with enough time for more?

Go fishing…

Lanesboro Angling Centre

Results of Brown Tag Draw for the Roughty River

By
Chris Scanlan
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roughty brown tag draw

On Tuesday 5th May 2026 a draw took place to allocate 50 Brown Tags for the taking of salmon on the Roughty River catchment.

A total of 99 valid entries were received from salmon rod licence holders. Each was assigned a number in advance of the draw.

Fifty five (55) numbers were randomly generated.

The first 50 successful entrants will be issued a brown tag by Post over the coming days. The final 5 numbers are reserved in case an angler declines or returns the tag allocated to them.

The random draw was conducted by Sean Long (RBD Director).

The selected numbers are:

1 .
2026195
2 .
2026114
3 .
2026129
4 .
2026139
5 .
2026197
6 .
2026145
7 .
2026194
8 .
2026153
9 .
2026181
10 .
2026162
11 .
2026131
12 .
2026113
13 .
2026182
14 .
2026161
15 .
2026169
16 .
2026168
17 .
2026134
18 .
2026180
19 .
2026160
20 .
2026176
21 .
2026199
22 .
2026149
23 .
2026159
24 .
2026115
25 .
2026120
26 .
2026155
27 .
2026124
28 .
2026121
29 .
2026178
30 .
2026193
31 .
2026126
32 .
2026174
33 .
2026148
34 .
2026128
35 .
2026163
36 .
2026185
37 .
2026110
38 .
2026138
39 .
2026157
40 .
2026137
41 .
2026107
42 .
2026111
43 .
2026167
44 .
2026189
45 .
2026118
46 .
2026164
47 .
2026154
48 .
2026140
49 .
2026122
50 .
2026102

 

 

The 5 reserve numbers are:

1 .
2026136
2 .
2026106
3 .
2026150
4 .
2026175
5 .
2026198

 

The Brown Tags will be issued by post.

The second and final Roughty Brown Tag Lottery for 2026 will open for entries at the fisheriesireland.ie website from Monday June 8th..

Olives and buzzers take the biscuit in the midlands

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Mick ‘the Fish’ Flanagan has been fishing Lene this week, with good hatches of fly and plenty of fish moving to them:

Saturday: It was great to see huge hatches of Buzzers & Olives on Lene; also, quite a few fish were surface feeding as I trolled Lene with pals Frank McKeon & Seamus Hennessey, who joined us in the morning session.

Sunday: Lovely few hours on Lene and some hatch of buzzers & olives, nice to have tight lines on a new floating line for this season!

Monday: Well, that day turned out ok, and I was not sure of the venue this morning after the late cancellation for guiding, so I headed for Lene. Trolled up through some nice slicks with odd fish showing, but not a pull on the Salmo or Rapala; the trout are locked on buzzers & olives. They were bit picky today but I had 4 solid takes on Dry Fly!

Wednesday: I find it hard to stick it out on the buzzer fishing! The same as I can’t watch a pike deadbait rod bank fishing for long stints. Thanks to Jimmy Cahill & pal Dave Waters for the buzzers they gave me today – and the buzzer fishing tips! I’m buzzing with excitement to try these buzzers! The lads had a super day’s fishing on Lene and now i’m hoping to do the same with their flies!

 

Midland Angling

Address Mullingar Westmeath Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 (0)87 2797270 Mobile Phone: +353 (0)44 9348969 Website: midlandangling.com
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