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World Boat Team Qualifying Competition 2013

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myleskelly
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charter boat
The Lagosta

Pat O’Shea reports on the National Fish-Offs which were once again held in Cork Harbour over the October Bank Holiday weekend…

This was the 5th year on the trot that this competition to pick the Irish Team for the World Boat Angling Championships has been held in the harbour. The Irish team next year will be competing in Weymouth, England.

charter boat
The Lagosta

This year was going to be more of a challenge. First of all the tides were the smallest of the month; this can have a big impact on the fishing.  Secondly, the forecast was not the greatest. In fact, the storm that eventually did so much damage along the south coast of England passed through the region over the Saturday and Sunday. Winds on both days came upto force 9 at times with gusts in excess of force 10. This coupled with the occasional downpours made the conditions extremely difficult for anglers. In the height of the tempest anglers struggled. One unlucky angler threw his catch forward to a steward to be measured and recorded only for the wind to catch the fish and carry it dozens of yards from the boat. Crazy!!!

shrimp
You’ll have to get one bigger than that to stay in the running…

Despite the tough conditions over a thousand fish were caught and recorded on day 1 and on the day 2 this was upped to over 1,200. Now that wasn’t too bad; although, it pales in comparison to the numbers of fish caught in previous years, but given the conditions and the tide it was a good results. Once again, the mainstay of the catch were whiting and dab. Just as in previous year’s there were many good dabs with some coming close to specimen size!

Well done to the anglers, whose exceptional angling skills resulted in good numbers of fish in such testing conditions. Especially…..well done to the top five anglers, Pat Swan, Michael Barry, Heiko Dreier, Padraig Clear, and Brian Whelan who now join this year’s Master Angler, Liam O’Callaghan, on the National Boat Angling Team.

Well done especially to Paddy Swan who won the competition outright. Paddy Swan has been knocking on the door now for the past few years. Paddy qualified in some style this time around!Well done to also to Brian Whelan who fished his socks off on the Sunday. Coming into Sunday Brian was in 32nd spot but his exploits on Sunday catapulted him right into 5th place!

Well done lads and the best of luck in Weymouth next year!!!

For the full results the final scorecard is reproduced below.

results
The full results

Many thanks to the skippers from the Cork Harbour Angling Hub who always ensure that their guests stay on the fish. This weekend they included Donie Geary of the John Boy, Vince & John Geary of the Lee Star, Ger Keohane of the Naomh Cartha, and Alan Kennedy of the Lagosta II. Also many thanks to the stewards from Cobh SAC who had a busy weekend measuring fish and recording them. They included Pat Wright, Danny Kane, John O’Reilly, Sean Og McShane, and yours truly. Thanks also to Geary Angling Services and especially Mary Geary who organised the boats, bait & the stewards and without whom this event would not run so smoothly.

Watch out for the Fundraiser for the National Team which will also be held in Cork Harbour on the 28th December!!!

Courtesy of Cork Harbour Angling Hub

Five Weeks To Salmon Season 2014 on the Drowes

By
myleskelly
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Fowley’s Falls
Fowley’s Falls Is A Series Of Cascades Between The Mountain And Lough Melvin. Here Shown In Low Water, After A Flood It Is Quite Spectacular.

Shane Gallagher from the Drowes looks forward to the coming salmon season…

This day 5 weeks the 2014 salmon season will be in full swing on the Drowes. It seems like only yesterday since the last cast on 30th September. The weather this autumn has continued very mild and relatively dry. There hasn’t been the usual Autumn/Winter floods. The water level has hardly been above 0.75 since the last day of the season and is currently just above 0.6 metres on the gauge at the Four Master’s Bridge. The mild weather and low water levels have been a great oppourtunity to carry out some repairs and maintenance on the river walkways.
While on the riverbank we have seen quite a bit of activity as fish jockey for position ahead of imminent spawning. There are some small patches of turned gravel visible but the spawning season has yet to begin in earnest as the mild weather continues. Day time temperatures today were air 10c and water 8c.

Fowley’s Falls
Fowley’s Falls Is A Series Of Cascades Between The Mountain And Lough Melvin. Here Shown In Low Water, After A Flood It Is Quite Spectacular.

The Wild Salmon And Sea Trout Statistics Report 2012 has been published and is available from http://www.fisheriesireland.ie/Salmon-Management/wild-salmon-and-sea-trout-statistics.html

The total salmon catch for the Drowes for 2012 was 1269 salmon.
Of these 414 were caught and released.
295 spring salmon (multi sea winter fish) were recorded. Of these 91 were released.
974 grilse (one sea winter fish) were recorded. Of these 323 were released.

The peak months for spring fish were April and May while the peak months for grilse were June and July.

Catch Methods
42% of salmon were taken on fly
22% were taken on prawn/shrimp
21% were taken on spinner
10% were taken on worm
5% not specified

The staff of IFI have yet again done a tremendous job compiling a very detailed and interesting report that is a vital tool in the successful management of the wild salmon resource on a river by river basis.
It is important for anyone who has yet to send in their 2013 licence and log book to do so as soon as possible. Returns can be sent in the prepaid envelope that came with your salmon licence or posted to:
Inland Fisheries Ireland
Station Road
Ballyshannon
Co. Donegal
Ireland

There will be regular reports with condition updates, shop opening times etc, between now and opening day.

Shane Gallagher
Drowes Salmon Fishery
T: +353 (0) 71 98 41055
M: +353 (0) 87 8050806
http://www.drowessalmonfishery.ie/reports/

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For info/bookings etc on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin seehttp://www.drowessalmonfishery.com/ or Tel: 071 9841055 (8am to 12 noon).

Silver bars from the Copper Coast

By
IFI Staff
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Another fish for Gazzy
Another fish for Gazzy

The Copper Coast is maintaining it’s reputation as an excellent fishing spot.  Some nice bass caught there recently and remaining active with the water temperatures not too low.

A nice 42cm bass from Copper Coast
A nice 42cm bass from Copper Coast
Another fish for Gazzy
Another fish for Gazzy

 

Absolute Fishing
Tramore,
Co. Waterford.
Phone: 051-393559
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://absolutefishingireland.blogspot.ie/

A rocky start on day one but day two had some super fishing at the Maidens

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IFI Staff
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Mark from Boat Angling Ireland headed out from Larne on Sunday but with the choppy seas and a dodgy tummy on one little crew member, he had to turn back.  Monday however was a different day and all the crew enjoyed some good fishing:

With the weather finally settling down I’d arranged to go out Sunday and Monday from Larne.   On Sunday I had a friend and his kid and my wee lad Cain with me , with the boat in the water for first light we headed out to Hunters rock to try and get some fresh bait. The forecast had said very light winds but on way out it wasn’t so calm lol after 15 mins at Hunters my friend’s wee lad started to look a bit green so I decided to look for a bit of shelter in behind maidens and see if he would come round but after 10 mins at the Maidens with very little shelter the inevitable happened from then on it was like dominoes with my wee lad sick then mate so after watching them be sick and all feeling sorry for themselves my long awaited day on the water was called to an end at 10am lol. On the way in we passed Rosco heading out smashing his way through some rough water back on dry land there was 3 happy people and one frustrated boat owner lol.

BAI - Nov 26th
Another early start on Monday with Mike Barrie and a lot calmer.  First stop was Hunters again to hopefully get some fresh bait, as soon as we stopped the finder was solid with shoals of coalies and pollock and within 15 mins had more than enough for baits!
With the small tides we headed straight for deep water and anchored up in 315ft of water and down went some fresh coalies on the big rods and mackerel fillets on smaller gear to see what was about.
BAI - Nov 26th (2)We had a couple of good hits on big baits in the first hour and baits came back up shredded but no hook ups.  In between this we were getting a steady stream of doggies, black mouths and small spurdogs.
BAI - Nov 26th (3)After a couple of hours I got another good hit on the coalie bait and after a good fight managed to boat a good tope not what I was expecting but a nice fish and after few photos realeased back. Never measured it but probably around the 30lb mark. After another 30mins Mike got a good run on his big bait and after a long haul up and a bit of huffing and puffing it was another tope of same size.
The smaller stuff kept coming the rest of the day but no more big fish so at about 3 we pulled up anchor and headed back in very happy with days fishing!!

BAI - Seascape

Courtesy of Boat-Angling-Ireland. http://www.boat-angling-ireland.com

2013 Connacht TAFI Stillwater Championship – Lough na Liebe

By
Markus Muller
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2013 Connacht TAFI Stillwater Championship

On Saturday the 16th of November 2013 the Connacht Branch of the Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland held the Connacht Stillwater Championship on Lough Na Leibe.  The Ballymote and District Angling Association took great pride in the fact that Lough Na Leibe had been selected as the venue to host such an event.

At 10 a.m. the visiting anglers were met by Keith Coleman, Club Chairman and all the visiting anglers were welcomed to the locality.  The field was made up of thirteen of the best fly anglers in the province.  From the off Basil Shields was the first angler to net a 1kg rainbow trout and moments later he followed with another super trout.  In total 35 rainbow trout were caught during the four hour match, with all fish returned alive. Winner on the day was Basil Shields with 10 Trout.

 

Basil Shields, winner of the 2013 TAFI Connacht Stillwater Championship
Basil Shields, winner of the 2013 TAFI Connacht Stillwater Championship

Glore Anglers are enjoying the winter pike fishing

By
Paul Bourke
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Angling guide and journalist Mick Flanagan reports on pike fishing in the midlands area near Mullingar.

On the Pike scene Glore Anglers had another competition on the Mighty River Inny, and the members produced some nice fish. I dropped up to the Shimano Trade show in Dublin last week, and there is some cracking new gear coming on Line for the 2014 season. The Plano range of Lure boxes and bags are a cracking looking kit, and would make an ideal Christmas present for your poor old Angling Pal. Irish Angler magazine has being shelved due to the on going coasts of publishing a top Angling magazine. Hopefully it will appear back in print in the near future.

WINTER PIKING. Glore Anglers are enjoying the winter pike fishing, and were Out & About once again on the River Inny.  Trim Angler Joe O, Donnell was top rod with a lovely pike of 11 lbs 7 oz, Dave Farrell was 2nd with 3 lbs 7 oz, and 3rd spot went to Michael Rispin  2 lbs 8 oz.  The River Inny is mighty winter pike water, and produces some fine specimen pike over the cold winter months. Now with water levels rising on the Inny I am planning a trip down river to Lough Iron. Watch this space for up dates on how the River Inny and Lough Iron are fishing.

SHIMANO GEARED UP FOR COMING SEASON. Shimano introduced they new range of Rods, Reels, and many other super kits for the 2014 Angling season. I photographed Anglers World Paul O, Callaghan checking out the new range of fly rods for game and sea fishing with George Kelly Managing Director of Milbro Sport. Also on display were the range of Plano Lure Boxes and Bags, and they would make an ideal Christmas Gift for your Angling pal or partner. All the new Shimano range should be in your local Angling Center in the coming weeks, if not just ask.

Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling

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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

 

 

Good pike fishing on deadbaits reported from Melview Lodge in Co. Longford

By
Paul Bourke
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Cormac Daly with a lovely pike

Angling Guide and guesthouse owner Kevin Lyons reports on pike fishing for his clients in the past week on waters near his base at Melview Lodge in Co. Longford.

John Grace and Cormac Daly from Kilkenny decided on a day out with guide and guest house owner Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge in Longford, Kevin said we were on the water just as it turned day light. Conditions were flat calm with not even a hint of a breeze, we first started with some lures where I knew some good fish had been caught and lost over the previous few weeks.

Cormac Daly with a lovely pike
Cormac Daly with a lovely pike

After a short time we decided that the flat calm conditions were not going to produce any fish for us so we decided on some dead baiting, and what a good decision that turned out to be. All three spots that we fished produced Pike to 15lb, and we won’t mention how many Pike we lost but it turned out to be a great days fishing.

John Grace with another nice Pike
John Grace with another nice Pike

 

Kevin with a good pike
Kevin with a good pike

 

Kevin Lyons

Melview Lodge

Drumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Longford, Co. Longford.

Tel : +353 (0)43-33-45061 Mobile : +353 (0)87-268-7441

Email: [email protected]  Web: www.melviewlodge.com

 

 

All the news from Delphi…

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IFI Staff
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Angling correspondent David McEvoy gives us an update from Delphi:

Well at this stage we’re almost two months into the closed season and it’s hard to believe we’ll be open for fishing again in just over two months.

If you look at our annual newsletter you will see we finished with a respectable total of fish for the year, with some crackers included. Our weather has continued relatively dry with only 220.1mms or 8.6” for the month of October.  November was a little wetter early on but now we have settled into a cold, dry and calm pattern i.e. lovely winter weather. It is also worth noting that the scenery has changed completely and we have leafless trees and brown and withered landscapes.

Our post season brood stock netting is well underway and we have 600 fish held already. There are no 20 pounders yet but there are some magnificent fish among them. The netting activity will continue for the next few weeks as often as possible. The stripping of the fish should start late the first week or early the second week of December with the busiest period normally being the 10 days leading up to Christmas.

Very few sea trout have spawned as yet, as we have not had a reasonable flood since about the 10th of November which is normally a little early. We did get a chance to do some rehab on some of the streams which will make spawning easier for trout.

To received a copy of Delphi’s annual newsletter you can do so through the office or just
click here to download.

And don’t you all worry if we catch that 20 pounder there will be a picture up on this site and keep dreaming of fish and Delphi in the meantime till the season re opens.

Delphi_Fishery_News_2013

 

David McEvoy,

Delphi Fishery
Delphi Lodge, Leenane, Co. Galway.
Tel: +353 (0)95-42222 Fax +353-95-42296
Web: www.delphi-salmon.com

 

The Rebel heads up to the Deise for a bass

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IFI Staff
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Here we have Jason Nash of www.savagefishingblogspot.ie leaving the Rebels for a bit and heading up to the Deise for a spot of bass fishing:

It’s late November and one notices a sharp transition into winter, with frost in evidence most nights. In contrast, sea temperatures have held up well and bass are still being caught on lures along our coast line. To be honest, I thought my last cast for a bass this year was back in October. However, a weekend of sport a buddy enjoyed up on the Copper Coast in Waterford recently spurred me on to give it another shot on one of my favourite marks in West Cork.

While bass hug the shore all year long, numbers are lower in the winter months and they are much less willing to give chase to a lure. This is mostly down to water temperature, with the magic measurement for lure anglers thought to be 10 degrees Celsius. At present, the temperature is between 11.5 and 12 meaning there is still time for a chuck and chance! The forecast for this week is for cloudy skies and less frost which will hopefully prolong the window of opportunity.

Not wasting any time, I decided to give last Monday evening a go as high tide was just approaching twilight. I spent a long time walking the rocks looking for some action in the water as there was very little swell. Luckily though, the swell was stronger the day before and the water was well fizzed up. With high tide nearing, water was beginning to rush in around some rocks at a distance and was now covering gullies which were high and dry earlier on. It was now or never, so on went my favourite shallow diving lure, the IMA Komomo SF-125. Within a few casts a fish hurtled towards it, revealing its presence by slashing the top of the water. ‘Here we go’, I hoped and 5 minutes later I struck silver! This lure is just the bomb… the lure doesn’t find the bass, the bass find the lure!!

Rather than putting up a photo, I decided to upload a short video that I took of the release.

While on the topic of releasing bass, I recently received scale sample results from the IFI National Bass Programme. A scale sample was sent from a 69cm bass I caught during the Irish Bass Festival and it turns out the fish was 13 years old and was a fast grower. This underlines the fact that bass are extremely slow growers and the utmost of respect should be shown to these magnificent fish.

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The beautiful Bandon salmon river redds

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IFI Staff
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Angler Jason Nash of www.savagefishingblogspot.ie captures the spawning beds on the river Bandon:

Last Friday I spotted the first 2 salmon redds on the main river, no doubt spurred on by the frosty conditions. Thankfully these are a little easier to spot than the trout redds!

Jason Nash - Salmon redds (1)

Jason Nash - Salmon redds (2)Another resident of the Bandon is the little egret, whose numbers have exploded in recent years along our rivers and coast lines.

Jason Nash - EgretAs a parting note, we have had some great news on the salmon farming front in Ireland. The European Commission is to re-open its investigation into the negative effects of salmon farming on wild salmon. To read more on the issue, click here. News on this subject had been scarce for a while, so this is a very welcome advancement in the right direction.

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