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Fine trout on the Maigue and a good Deel of wilderness fishing

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Lora Raper flyfishing the Maigue at Adare

Paddy Dunworth reports on a few recent trips out with clients on some of Co. Limerick’s trout rivers…

02/06 Jason Khym took time out from an equestrian holiday to flyfish. One of his charges, Lora Raper, who enjoys fishing for smalmouth bass back home in the USA also came along. We arrived a little early to the Adrare stretch of the Maigue andas the last of the ebb tide dropped out of the river Jason and Laura had a chance to refresh their flycasting skills. Both fished bead-head Hares Ear on the point with an Alder as dropper but even after the level finally reached it’s normal height it took a while for the fish to take consistently. Then Jason and Lora enjoyed a couple of hours of great sport in what was a very cool afternoon compared to the previous day. They both had around 10 fish each, losing many more as is the case here.

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Lora Raper flyfishing the Maigue at Adare

01/06 Steve Murphy from Ontario fished a short session on the Deel before returning to the Maigue at Adare where he had several small but lively trout to the fly. We then proceeded to the Fanningstown Castle waters some 2 miles upstream of Castleroberts, this is a lovely stretch with a weir at it’s uppermost boundary. Steve had a strong offer on a streamer, the water still being somewhat coloured. The exercise was to show Steve the water so he can fish it solo during his week long holiday here. We made it home just in time to see the end of the Limerick v Tipperary game, what a win! Steve’s now a firm fan of the fishing here and hurling!

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Steve Murphy on the Maigue

29/05 Turlough Herbert joined me for an evening session on the Upper Deel yesterday. The banks are totally wild because it sees little fishing activity. It’s wilderness fishing at it’s best and most challenging. Though much smaller than it is around Rathkeale it holds some good fish, all wild and prepared to give a good account of themselves. Though there was a rise on when we started around 6.30pm Turlough opted to fish small nymphs and was soon meeting small but hyper trout. I moved upstream, getting out of the river and getting access back in again further up proved difficult, this re-inforces the wild nature of these reaches of the Deel. As a man said to me prior to our visit ‘ not the place to take a new pair of breathable waders’!

I had a couple of fish on dry BWO’s and Turlough continued to experiment crossing from nymph to dry to New Zealand style, meeting fish on all methods. These fish probably never saw an artificial in their lives. All fish were released, indeed many came off in play such was the reaction when hooked.

I hope we still have these wild places in 20years time.

Paddy Dunworth
Celtic Angling

Go fishing…

Paddy Dunworth, a fishing guide based near Adare has been flyfishing for 40 years and guiding for 15. He has an intimate knowledge of the Fisheries and Antiquities of this beautiful region. An all-round angler and flytier, Paddy specialises in Trout, Sea-trout, Salmon and Sea-Bass, offers Fly-casting tuition for beginners and improvers, and also caters for Autumn /Winter Pike fishing and Salt-water fly fishing.
Web: www.celticangling.com

A few salmon at Screebe including one of 22.1lb

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Patrick Delapp's salmon weighed in at 22.1lb

Patrick Delapp caught a fine salmon  at the Screebe Fishery in Connemara on 23 May. The water was very high and the huge fish, which weighed in at 22.1lb, put up a great fight.

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Patrick Delapp’s salmon weighed in at 22.1lb

There have been 4 salmon caught since then between 7 and 3 pounds.

The river has dropped back now and the salmon have moved up into the lake again. It could be a good year ahead…

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Screebe offers its guests exclusive fishing on countless lakes and rivers and will provide the necessary permits. These waters abound with salmon, brown trout and sea trout.Screebes own traditional fishing boats will provide the perfect ambiance to while away your day. We can also provide a gillie (professional guide) for your fishing tour.
Web: www.screebe.com

Two firsts at Inagh as salmon make an appearance

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Pictured with Mark is Johnny Flaherty who boated the lucky angler.

Colin Folan report’s that Lough Inagh is out of the blocks with its first salmon of the season landed…

First Salmon of 2014 landed in Lough Inagh. Mark Walton (Sligo) caught the first of 2014 for Inagh on 03 June.

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Pictured with Mark is Johnny Flaherty who boated the lucky angler.

 

The salmon took a size 10 Sedgehog. The fish weighed 8.25lbs and was taken at the top of the lake. It was also Mark’s first Salmon ever.

Colin Folan
Lough Inagh Lodge

Go fishing…

Loughs Derryclare and Inagh lie in the lovely Inagh Valley with the Twelve Pins (Bens) of Connemara rising steeply to the west, and the Maumturk Mountain range to the east. There are two short connecting rivers, which contain four river beats. The fishery has spring salmon, grilse, sea trout and large indigenous brown trout. In recent years the fishery has seen a resurgence of fish numbers, and in 2010 – 2012, the fishery has produced Salmon to 15lbs, Sea Trout to 5lbs and Brown Trout to 12lbs.

Lough Inagh Lodge
Recess, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353 095 34706
Web: www.loughinaghlodgehotel.ie

Grilse and bigger salmon in the Moy system, estuary fishing well for sea trout

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Salmon fishing at the Moy Fishery was a quiet affair this last week with only a few fish reported. A mix of grilse and some bigger fish are in the system now and some 3lb class fish were taken on spinner.

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Grilse of 3lb and. 3.75 lbs caught on spinner at the Ridge Pool

The Foxford Salmon Anglers water (www.foxfordsalmonanglers.com) had 14 Salmon for the week, notable ones were a 12lb Fish caught by Jim Martin Snr. on worm, Martin King’s  11.5lb fish on worm and  Herbert Zettel had a nice fresh run fish of 8lbs also on worm.

Martin King with a nice 11.5lb fish on worm
Martin King with a nice 11.5lb fish on worm

Elsewhere in the Foxford area spinning accounted for a few salmon in the 10lb class at Mount Falcon  and at the Foxford Fishery but worm was the successful method at the Scott, Knox Gore fishery at Coolcronan, at Armstongs, at the Rinanney Fishery and at Gannons.

A variety of methods caught salmon at Cloongee and the East Mayo Anglers, Balintemple where fish fell to fly, spinner, worm and bubble and fly. Visiting angler Bertrand Savery, France, had a 14lb salmon at the East Mayo Anglers (www.eastmayoanglers.com) fishery on spinner.

Moy Estuary

Visiting anglers from 6 countries fished on Pegasus with Judd Ruane last week, namely, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Holland and the UK. The total catch was 126 sea trout with 42 retained. The arrival of a mild southerly, late in the week, brought a good head of sea trout into the estuary and some of the local anglers enjoyed good results as well.

Sebastien Merkofer Steckborn Switzerland Annie Taylor Andy Major UK.

To book a day’s sea trout fishing visit www.fishingireland.ie or contact Judd on +353 (0)87 6736969.

Dry fly working well on Conn, some better fish on Spent Gnat and Green Peter

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The Loughs Conn & Cullin Anglers Association annual Whit week end 2 day competition saw 78 anglers competing for first place. Over the course of the weekend 63 trout over the 13 ” limit were caught with an average weight of 0.581 kg.

The results were as follows:

  • 1st , Eddie Blance, laois, 2 trout, 1.87 kg
  • 2nd , John Binley, Foxford, 3 trout, 1.76 kg
  • 3 rd, Junior Mc Gahon, Castlebar, 3 trout, 1.65 kg

Elsewhere on the lake…

Mark and Martin Wilson from Whiteabbey Co. Antrim fishing out of Ian Wises at Cloonamoyne Fishery for their 23rd Mayfly on Conn had 28 trout for four days fishing with trout up to 2lbs and all trout returned to the lake bar one injured fish. Most fish were caught on dry Lawrence Finney type, yellow and grey Wulff patterns.

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Conn trout
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Greenfly

Mark lost two big trout at Ned’s on the spent on Friday evening. They saw fish on most shallows and commented on the great stock of various year groups seen over the lake with most shallows producing fish.

Two friends fishing with them Gary Mc Fadden, Lisburn and Alistair Linton, Ballymena had 7 trout for 1 and a half days fishing, including 2 fish of 2lbs, all caught on the Green Peter wet and on the spent Gnat.
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Report and photographs courtesy of Mark Wilson

 

Lough Ennell starting to fish well

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Dermot Broughan, IFI, reports that Kenny Kiernan and John Plunkett had  6 trout on Ennell on Sunday the 31st of May. The best  fish weighed in at 3 ½lb and all were returned.  Ennell has started to produce the goods and local angler Thos Grimes reported having had a good week on the lake.

Joe Kenna has had a good evening on the river Inny with some nice fish to the 2lb mark.

Hopes for salmon fishing on Laune to improve

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Tom Curtayne caught this beauty on the Fly at Gorry on Sunday morning, 01 June. At 14lbs a nice fish to catch on the fly. Over the last two weeks there have been a few fish encountered well into double figures.

Good water on the Laune but reports of salmon on the system are few and far between.

KILLARNEY LAKES AND LOUGH LEANE

2 salmon landed for the week trolling on Lough Leane.

KILLARNEY FLESK

No salmon were reported from the Flesk in the last week.

RIVER LAUNE BEATS 1 AND 2

No salmon were reported from beats 1 or 2 of the Laune recently.

LAUNE SALMON AND TROUT ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION WATERS AND BEAT 3

Billy Downes reports that as of Tuesday 2nd June the water is at a lovely 1.5 feet on the gauge at Johnston’s….

There were a few good fish met early in the week one lost on the fly at Johnston’s after 15 minutes described as best fish of a 40 year angling career. The same angler failed to meet any other fish for the week.

There were eight fish reported from the Laune for the week this is a significant improvement but still not great for the effort put in.  Yesterday, Monday was the best day as you would expect with nets off and a big angling effort.  These fish were caught in Paul Connor’s and Johnston’s.  John O’Reilly, a new member of Laune Anglers, released a grilse of 4 lbs at Crowley’s.

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Tom Curtayne caught this beauty on the Fly at Gorry on Sunday morning, 01 June. At 14lbs a nice fish to catch on the fly. Over the last two weeks there have been a few fish encountered well into double figures.

Water down river is still perfect for all methods.

Beat 3:

There are a few salmon holding up in pools down river from Beaufort Bridge and a good few sea trout also but they are hard to tempt with flies or worm but they are there.  One fish reported for the week.

The water is nice but a bit on the low side for good salmon fly fishing.

Some lovely brown trout showing and even taking salmon flies in the evenings.

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

Prospects: It can only get better – even allowing for the draft nets being in operation,  the return to anglers for this past week was not great.
Billy Downes 
Secretary
Laune Salmon and Trout Anglers’ Association.

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

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Fly proves deadly for pollack at Cork Harbour

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Despite the closed season for bass , Eire Bass  guide Richie Ryan continues to have success  fly fishing in deep water with clients catching pollack on his favourite marks. Two Dublin based anglers returned to fish the fly with the guide again this year and had fish on practically every cast.

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Richie tells us of a recent outing with group  of Dutch anglers who had booked a session aboard his boat Sea Hawk. Having been out fishing pollack himself on the fly the previous day on a good mark, the guide decided to take the tourists to the same location. The  three anglers were using traditional  spinning rods and reels and a variety of lures.The tidal and weather conditions were exactly the same as the previous day but no hook ups. None of the anglers knew how to fly fish but keen to show the anglers the fish were there Richie decided to cast a fly allowing each of them in turn to retrieve. Again the fly returned a fish per cast whilst the other methods caught nothing! Only after an hour or so had passed and the currents changed did the spinning rods start to pick up fish and  to Richie’s delight, all rods were bending with pollack . It just shows how effective the fly can be when other methods are not working.

Richie Ryan
Saltwater fly fishing Guide.
www.corkbass.com

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Eire Bass – Richie Ryan

Saltwater fly fishing Guide.

Web: www.corkbass.com E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +353 (0)86 1940744

 

Great charter fishing reported at Kinsale

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Big whiting including some specimens have been landed

Mike Dennehy, skipper of the Silver Dawn out of Kinsale  reports that the fishing out of Kinsale is going well at the moment…

Great fishing this week on board the Kinsale based Silver Dawn with plenty of large haddock to 6.5lb,  and two specimen whiting to 3.2lb for Albie O’Sullivan and Paul Ross.

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Some great haddock to over 6lb are being caught regularly

Never before have I seen such large numbers of big whiting. Lots of large  Pollack also.  Mackerel are very plentiful thankfully.

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Big whiting including some specimens have been landed
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Another of the specimen whiting

On Saturday we had the pleasure of finding a super pod of common dolphin several hundred strong – an amazing sight.

Tight lines,

Mike Dennehy
Silver Dawn
Kinsale Charters

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Silver Dawn is based at Castlepark Marina in beautiful and historic town of Kinsale, Cork, Ireland. Our coastal area benefits from a range of mixed grounds with mud, shingle, rock and sand banks all with in reach to offer some excellent and varied fishing.

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Tope move into the Shannon Estuary as fishing continues to improve

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The first Clare coast tope of 2014

Luke Aston reports from Carrigaholt where the tope have made their first appearance of the year…

I suppose the highlight of this report is that we have caught the first Tope of our season here in the Shannon estuary. I don’t normally start to target them until mid June but I had noticed last year that there seemed to be lots of them about by then so I decided to give it a go earlier this year. On a quick trip on a foggy morning I had a good 32lb female to the boat.

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The first Clare coast tope of 2014

Overall the fishing has been going very good although disrupted a bit by the weather over the last few days. There seem to be lots of mixed Whitefish about, with around 400kg of fish to the boat on the best day. Mostly Pollack and Coalfish but also a nice sign of Cod and Ling.

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Ling caught on spinning gear can give great sport

Drifting out on some stony ground was turning up some fine Whiting of over 2.5lbs. As the season goes on these will turn into fine fish.

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Drifting out on some stony ground was turning up some fine Whiting of over 2.5lbs

The Ling in the picture was caught on a Salmon spinning rod which a lad brought out to try. He was using one of my 4oz lead heads and had great fun with a fish on every cast!

Luke Aston
Clare Dragoon

Go fishing…

Although most of my trips are full charters I do put the odd trip together and the 16 to 20 June is open to individuals with 1 or 2 spaces still available on each day.

Clare Dragoon is a LOCHIN 366 powered by 650HP engine that operates out of Carrigaholt Co. Clare.

I have some offers up on my web site www.fishandstay.com and if anybody is interested in putting a trip together please do get in touch. Also I Twitter from the boat on @fishandstay and try to update my face book page www.facebook.com/CarrigaholtSeaAngling fairly often!

To experience some of the best deep sea fishing available in Ireland contact Luke.
Telephone: +353 65 9058209 or +353 87 6367544
Email: [email protected] Web: www.fishandstay.com

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