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Irish Angling Update 🎣 25 October 2024

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IFI Staff
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The first named storm of the season paid us a visit last weekend. Ashley whacked the west coast in particular with wind and waves, while the rest of the country took a milder lashing. That put paid to fishing for a day or two for all but the hardiest (or daftest) of anglers, until things had settled back to normal.

Before the storms came, we did get some fishing in last week, and no better place to start than Crosshaven in Cork, where Team Ireland ground it out to finish with the highest scoring individual angler and secure the team silver medal position at the 59th World Boat Championships. Liam O’Callaghan was the highest scoring angler across the three competition days and, pending an appeal around a FIPs-M scoring systems error, should be crowned world champion and outright individual gold medalist – what an achievement for him! Liam and the Irish team win our Catch of the Week for this week.

Some other Irish teams are preparing for a tilt at a FIPS-M world championship medal in the coming weeks. First up are the Irish Kayak Angling Team who are competing in the inaugural World Championship Kayak Fishing in Valencia, Spain from October 16th to 31st – good luck to them! The following week, the Irish U16 and U21 Shore Angling Teams take on the rest of the world at the FIPS-M World Shore Championships which will be held on beaches in Wexford – we look forward to bringing you all the news from that one.

Competitors at the World Boat Championships

Corrane Sea Angling Club hosted the Connacht Closed Gold Medal recently, with three sessions fished on venues on Achill Island and Mulranny. Kevin Barber, with a second place finish on the Sunday session to add to second and third on Saturday, won the Closed Gold Medal by a single point.

In club news, the West Cork and District SAC moved venue to Ferrypoint for their latest fixture. Youghal beach was the original venue but with the forecast for high winds and big spring tides, it would have been very uncomfortable. Species on the night consisted of mostly coalfish and bass with a few codling, eels, flounder, gilthead bream and whiting.

Looking gilty at Ferrypoint

The usual coarse fishing club matches and leagues have been taking place around the country and the mild weather has been beneficial in keeping the fish active. In Monaghan, the CM Lakelands Club fished a blustery match on Muckno, but skimmers don’t mind the wind and plenty were caught. The IASCaire Club also got out for round 3 of their Autumn League on Annaghierin, with skimmers also helping to bring up the weights for them. In the south east, Oaklands held a two day silver fish match where anglers had to sneak out the bigger silvers in between the carp, who were intent on gobbling up everything that was thrown at them.

In other coarse fishing news, there has been a change of venue for the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland (NCFFI) All Ireland Youth Feeder Championships this Saturday; the event has been moved from Lough Allen to Lough Gowna due to storm damage and high water at the former venue. The NCFFI have this week named the U15 and U20 teams who will represent Ireland at the World Youth Angling Championships in Spain in 2025 – congratulations to all of those elite young anglers who made the grade.

With wild trout and salmon fishing wrapped up until next year, we have a review of the final month of the season on Lough Corrib, where fly fishing was reasonably good for what turned out to be a fairly warm and dry month, but trolling was even better. In the south east, we have our usual newsletter from Piscari-Fly and this week the guys are fishing Laois Angling Centre and then heading to Wales for a practice session for the Hanak European Grayling Festival around the River Dee.

All calm on Corrib

Pike angling reports were thin on the ground this week, but Midlandangling.com’s Mick Flanagan had great fun after jacks on the Inny. Fish were hunting hard, hitting every lure he had and Mick had a ball fishing for them. The Newbridge and District Pike Angling Association will hope that the pike are just as active for their open pike competition this November; they have announced the date – it will be held on Sunday, 24th, on Blessington Lake in Wicklow, so make sure and contact them to take part.

Specimen Fish

The deadline for submitting specimen claims is approaching fast. If you were lucky enough to catch a specimen fish this year and want to claim it, get your paperwork into the ISFC as soon as possible so that the ISFC can assess it. All specimen claims to be submitted by 31 October. Further information is available here.

Specimen fish Awards

Irish Fly Fair

The 12th annual Irish Fly Fair and International Angling Show is back in Fermanagh next month. This prestigious event will be held at the fabulous four-star Killyhevlin Hotel and grounds overlooking majestic Lough Erne. Dates are set for 16th and the 17th of November and doors open at 10am both days.

Salmon Logbooks

We would like to take this opportunity to remind all salmon and sea trout anglers to return their angling logbooks (setting out their fishing and catch record) and any unused gill tags.

Agus anois an aimsir…

Dry Friday night, but some showers in the south. Fog will form in light winds. Lows of 5°C to 10°C, mildest in the southeast.

Scattered showers and occasional sunny spells for most areas on Saturday, with rain moving southeast across the country, clearing later. Highs of 12°C to 15°C with light winds veering south to north. Dry but cold in most places overnight, with isolated showers in the north. Lows of 2°C to 6°C, in light winds.

Rain will move east during Sunday, heaviest in the west. Southeast areas staying dry until evening. Highs of 11°C to 14°C. Cloudy with some rain overnight. Lows of 9°C to 13°C, moderate southwesterlies.

Outbreaks of rain will clear southeastwards during Bank Holiday Monday morning and it will become drier but cloudy. Highs of 13°C to 16°C with westerly breezes. Cloudy and mostly dry with some drizzle or fog. Lows of 8°C to 11°C with light variable winds.

There will be small craft warnings in place for all coastal counties at different times over the weekend. Don’t forget to check the forecast before heading off and if you’re going to sea, check the tides.

Safe fishing to all and tight lines, especially here in Ireland.

IFI Staff
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Inny alive with jacks for Midlands Fishing

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Paul O'Reilly
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Mick Flanagan of Midlandangling.com had a great few hours on the Inny this week. Mick had planned to take his boat down the river for a bit of reconnaissance, but low water meant that he had to do his recce from the riverbank. On went the walking boots and off went Mick with rod in hand for what he described as a cracking few hours of river piking.

From his selection of paddle tails, it didn’t seem to matter what lure he tied on, with fish throwing themselves at the lures, sometimes hooking, sometimes not – even Nemo got a swim and landed a fish or two. None of the fish were monstrous, but who needs a monster when you can have such fun on the jacks.

Pike finds Nemo

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Pike fishing around Mullingar Angling Centre

 

 

Some good fishing in September as season wound down on Corrib

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IFI Staff
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Lough Corrib saw a fairly dry September, with plenty of warm weather, and much less wind than August. The second mayfly hatch petered out, but good hatches of sedge continued throughout September, and the second hatch of olives brought some fish to the surface too.  Fishing guide Kevin Molloy reported that flyfishing was reasonably good for the month, averaging 2-3 fish per day, with wet and dry sedge patterns, including the Green Peter, doing most of the damage. Trolling was more successful, with his clients getting most fish on the troll. Liz O’Connor from Dublin had a 6.5lbs fish trolling, while renowned French singer Pierre Perret had a 6lbs fish. American couple Chris and Deby Ferguson had several fish to 7lbs trolling. Toby Gibbons and a group from Mayo fished for a couple of days and had 6 good trout to 5.5lbs on fly, the best fish caught by Eoin McGreal.

Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge reported excellent fishing to Daphnia patterns around Inchagoill in the first week of September, some boats reporting 6-10 fish per day but it died off suddenly and fishing was tougher for the rest of the month. The second hatch of olives was not as good as other years, but the days with light winds provided decent fishing to dry olives in some of the bays on the eastern side. Fish were choosy, and size 16-18 flies fished on 6X leaders were most successful. Wet fly fishing was decent when winds were stronger, particularly on the western shore and around Roeillaun.

And so ends another game season on Corrib. While pike anglers and wildfowlers will be out over the winter, for the most part the lake will be quiet, the fish will be off spawning, and the trout anglers will be tying flies, painting boats and thinking of a rolling wave and rising fish in 2025.

In the meantime, here is a short video of what the trout are dong at the moment in spawning streams all around Corrib. We wish them every sucess!

Close shave in Connacht Closed as Barber wins gold medal

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IFI Staff
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Corrane Sea Angling Club hosted the Connacht Closed Gold Medal recently, with venues on Achill Island and Mulranny chosen for the 3-session event, held over 2 days.

Fishing was difficult in the first session and anglers were split between two zones, the venue was Dugort beach. The difficulty of the fishing was outlned by the results, with 5 and 6 fish being enough to take zone wins, with Colin Harty and Sean Ivory from Galway Bay SAC both taking maximum points from the first session. Kevin O’Hara and Kevin Barber (also GBSAC) took zone seconds.
The second session was at Mulranny Beach and fished into darkness. Dogs and flats were the main species caught on the evening. Colin Harty maintained his 100% record with another zone win, while Corrane’s Shane Gilvarry won his zone. Kevin O’Hara and Ed Kilroy moved up the leaderboard with second places.
It was all to play for in the final session on Sunday morning at Keel beach. A very strong easterly breeze had come in which resulted in poor fishing, and quite a few blanks along the beach. It was tight right to lines up, when a single fish could have made the difference. In the end, a zone win for Corrane SACs Ed Kilroy saw him climb the leaderboard to third and bronze medal position. Colin Harty struggled in the final session, but two zone wins from Saturday saw him take second place and the silver medal.
And it was Mr. Consistency, Kevin Barber, with a second place to add to second and third on Saturday who won the Closed Gold Medal by a single point. Well done Kevin!
Kevin Barber (right) presented with his trophy and gold medal by Joe Chambers
Mike Varley also had a zone win, but it wasn’t enough to make the top 5 and the Connacht team for next year’s Inter-Provincial Competition. The team for next year will be Kevin Barber, Colin Harty, Ed Kilroy, Shane Gilvarry and Kevin O’Hara. Mike Varley and Sean Ivory missed out on the team by a single point in a very tight contest.
Top 5 make the Connacht team

Good luck to Team Ireland @ World Kayak Fishing Championships in Spain

By
Paul O'Reilly
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The first ever World Championship for Kayak Fishing will take place in Valencia, Spain on 26–31 October, 2024.

Representing Ireland will be Walter Butler, Tomas Butler, Timothy O’Herlihy, Robert Wright, Patrick Gill, Denis O’Donovan and Joseph Stenning.

They face some stiff competition from nations like the USA, Portugal, Italy and the hosts, Spain, and they’ll be trying to capture some species wholly unfamiliar to the Irish angler, so the odds are stacked against them, but we wish them all the best on their journey – you just never know…

This event will be streamed live, so you can check in and see how the Irish team are doing.

IASCaire league fish Annaghierin

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Paul O'Reilly
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The IASCaire Feeder Fishing Club fished the 3rd Round of their Autumn League on Lough Annaghierin near Shercock in Cavan.

Fishing was technical as always and relatively calm day combined with the frost the night before did not help to improve the fishing! The mild weather of late mixed with excessive nutrients in the water has also contributed to an algal bloom on the lake.

It was mainly skimmers in the keepnets at lines out, with a few of the competitors managing to find decent sized skimmers and these helped to bring the catches up to respectable weights on the day!

TOP 3:

  • 1st Romas Na with 40 fish –  5.870kg
  • 2nd Vaidas Jagela, 19 fish –  4.670kg
  • 3rd Roman Hiszpan 32 fish – 4.580kg

After three rounds of fishing, it is all to play for:

Next venue will be Lough Namachree in a fortnight!

Shercock coarse angling centre

 

**CHANGE OF VENUE** All Ireland Youth Feeder Championships – Saturday October 26th

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Paul O'Reilly
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Lough Gowna, Saturday 26th October

Due to storm damage and high waters on Lough Allen, the venue for this event has changed to Lough Gowna.

Please meet in the car park at Fitzpatrick’s Tavern, Main Street, Lough Gowna H12 PF96 at 08.45. Fishing will be at Corfree, directions will be given.

The National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland (NCFFI) are organising the All Ireland Youth Feeder Championships, which will be held on Lough Allen in Leitrim on Saturday, October 26th. This event will identify the best all-Ireland youth feeder anglers in the age categories U15 and U25.

Entry is just €10 with items of terminal tackle for everyone and medals & tackle prizes for the top three in each category – booking is available through the NCFFI website.

Because the championship will be played out on Lough Allen, in Country Leitrim, it will mean that the championships have reached all the provinces over the years.

Participants will meet at 08.45 at O’Scollans Gala Car Park, Main Street, Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim N41 T9T2

  • Under 15’s will fish at Heron’s Shore from 11am to 2pm
  • Under 25’s will fish at Barney’s Shore from 11am to 3pm.

The event provides the ideal opportunity for Feeder Manager Brenton Sweeney to talent spot and grow future teams for the world stage to follow in the footsteps of our Silver Medal winning U25 Team Ireland Feeder of 2024. All welcome.

 

World Youth Angling Championships 2025 @ Merida, Spain – Team Ireland Youth announced

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Paul O'Reilly
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This announcement from the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland (NCFFI):

The NCFFI are delighted to announce that Team Ireland Youth will present in both the Under 20 and Under 15 categories at the World Youth Angling Championships of 2025 in Merida, Spain.

In his commitment to youth angling, manager Adrian Browne has nurtured a fine group of individuals to enable him to field two youth teams on the world stage next year. The young individuals representing club across our membership are;

  • Under 15: Markus Cmukas, Conor Fitzharris, Jack Norris, Charlie Upton and Michael Urbanski
  • Under 20: John Browne, Brian Clark, John Collins, John Mulligan and James Wellwood

It’s a pleasure to support these young anglers, most of whom will be making their debut on the world stage. Well done to all those making the team.

Youth Team travel and entry is subsidised by the NCFFI with support from Inland Fisheries Ireland and Irish Bait and Tackle Limited, The younger of the anglers who will be accompanied by their parents who will be looking to raise further funds to fulfill their travel needs and we welcome any support and/or sponsorship for the team.

Individual gold and team silver medals for Ireland at Boat World Championships @ Crosshaven,

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Paul O'Reilly
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While a very strong Croatia team took the Boat World Championship team gold medals home with them, Irish team member Liam O’Callaghan was the highest scoring angler across the three competition days and, pending an appeal around a FIPs-M scoring systems error, should be crowned world champion and outright individual gold medalist for the event. Not only that, but Team Ireland finished strongly – first overall on day three – to claim the team silver medal behind that impressive Croatian team.

Outright winners Croatia – congratulations to them

Ireland, who had finished in fifth place after day one, moved up into fourth after day two, after Liam O’Callaghan was top rod on the day, and had a smashing last day, finishing as top nation on the day to jump into the silver medal spot behind Croatia, with Italy in third place.

Team Ireland claim silver

World championship medals don’t come easily, no matter what the sport, and the Irish team of Jamie Murphy, Conor Purcell, Terry Boyle, Tomasz Kujawa, Liam O’Callaghan and John Dennehy can be proud of their finish. Countless hours of preparation and training are required before anglers can compete at this level and when that sacrifice results in a medal, it makes it all worthwhile.

Tomas (silver medal winner here) and Piotrek (gold medal winner at home nations) born in Poland and proud to fish for Ireland – and we’re proud to have them

Congratulations to Team Ireland and to Irish angling in general, as teams representing Ireland at international championships in sea, coarse, game and predator disciplines have brought home gold, silver and bronze in various age categories in recent times and long may it continue.

 

Piscari-Fly Newsletter 22 October

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IFI Staff
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Peter Driver of Piscari Fly is back with his weekly roundup of the fishing scene on the Nore and beyond:

How’s the Fishing

Getting a cast in before the Storm at Laois Angling Centre.

On Sunday we had some bad weather coming in across Ireland with very strong & wet winds. Checking out the weather in the Windy App that we use for all our fishing destinations for pinpoint accuracy on winds and weather, you could see the winds weren’t to get bad till lunchtime. So Mark headed to Laois Angling Center in Coolrain, Co. Laois. Not far from his home place in Durrow.

On arrival the winds were light and the low winter sun was creeping up. Mark started off with a slow intermediate with a 12ft leader and had on one of Peter’s Sliver Minkies and Black and Silver Minkies, with success pulling up high. Fish were chasing on a fast very short strip retrieve. But soon switched off that and with winds picking up Mark moving to bung setup with a Black Egg at 2.5ft and below that a Pink Squirmy Worm at 4.5ft. Getting some great action on the bung. Mostly coming to the worm at that depth, and changing the middle dropper to find another pattern working.

Fish seemed to be moody due to the increasing changing winds as the day progressed, they were going deep at times and then coming up high. Alternating the depths on the Bung helped with this but was time consuming. When the fish where high, Mark used his 3rd rod which had floating line setup with a Peacock Foam Back Beetle and a Croxia Beetle on a 14ft cast. Covering rising fish and picking up some nice browns and good quality rainbows with this method.
Moving around to different pegs as we got closer to lunchtime, it was obvious that the winds were picking up, the fish had gone down and very little action up high. Mark moved to the shore lines facing directly into the wind making strong casts out, allowing the wind to move the Bung back towards the shoreline and drop offs, and in turn picked up some great numbers of fish for the last hour. As soon as the Bung would come in line with the drop off, the Bung would shoot under and into fish on the worm pattern 5.5ft down.

It was difficult to determine the Bung in the wavy conditions but focusing it’s behaviour, we were able to notice takes and catch some good sized fish, that fought great.
By 1.30pm it was time to get out of there and head to the car, the wind had blown the tackle box over enough times along with casting being impossible into the wind. However, it was a great few hours from around 9am, and was well worth the spin over. Reports were the lake was packed on Saturday, where as on Sunday, Mark had the whole lake to himself and our friend Rodger.

For flies mentioned above check out the following links.

For minkies: https://piscari-fly.com/?s=minkie&post_type=product&product_cat=0​

For bungs: https://piscari-fly.com/?s=bung&post_type=product&product_cat=0​

For Squirmies: https://piscari-fly.com/collections/squirmies/​

 

Winter Tying-Fly of the Week

Peter’s Black Minkie and Silver Minkie

Whether I am fishing for Rainbow Trout on a stocked lake or Wild Brown Trout in the Loughs or even on rivers these are 2 Minkies that I am never without. They just constantly catch fish wherever I go. They have gotten me out of more holes over the years, staring a blank in the face and they just always pull a fish for me. A simple tie but very effective, I am tying up a couple now for the stocky season for my box. I will be pulling these along the bank all throughout the season just mixing it up between the 2.

They can be done in various sizes, I tie them right down to a size 12 and up to a size 6 and just really good fry pattern that fish will take even on a day that the lake has been hammered for a period of time and the fish have stopped chasing or are being wary. One of these fished slow on a small size 12 can be super effective. Or even fished as a team, the 2 together can be fantastic again in small size 12

Hook: Size 12 to 6 pisacri fly streamer hook

Thread: Piscari-Fly Kevlar (super fine strong thread)

Ribbing: Clear Mono 0.12

Tail: Piscari Red Flash Dubbing

Body: Piscari Silver Flash Dubbing

Wing: Piscari Rabbit Zonkers in black or silver-grey

Head: Piscari Red Flash Dubbing brushed out really well

Eyes: 3mm Silver eyes stuck on with either resin or superglue whichever you prefer.

Here is a link to a small pack I have put together for you to tie quite a few of these with minkies hooks, eyes and all included. If you have any questions do give me a shout.

​https://piscari-fly.com/collections/black-and-silver-minkie-tying-kit/​

Piscari Travels

On Friday morning early Peter and Mark fly into Manchester to meet up with their team mate Rob Redmad. The boys will do a 3 day practice session for the Hanak European Grayling Festival around the River Dee. Peter and Mark are really looking forward to Wales and to getting out together on the River. There will be lots of interviews and live footage going up on Piscari-Fly Club over the weekend. So make sure you stay tuned and see how the boys are getting on in Wales.

​https://club.piscari-fly.com/​

 

Winter Live Flytying

These will be starting in the coming weeks, Saturday night live. If you want to join Peter make sure you keep an eye on our social media for updates as we prepare to head to into the winter and some great flytying again this winter with Piscari-fly

 

About us

Based on the River Nore just outside Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. Piscari-Fly is a growing Fly Tying and Fly-Fishing business with a vast amount of experience and knowledge. If there is ever anything I can do to make my service better for you please feel free to suggest it to me and I’ll gladly try my best to accommodate your requests. Thanks again. Peter Driver.

As a small business we depend on the satisfaction of our customers and their word of mouth reference, google reviews are important to our online presence and we sure would appreciate your review. Just head over to this link and give us a quick review.

Thanks for the support, its greatly appreciated.

Peter Driver.

Piscari-Fly, Woolengrange, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, R95 Y860, Ireland, 0879787040

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