Huge congratulations to Troy Francis from Tralee Bay S.A.C. who scooped the Munster title on Inch beach yesterday in scorching conditions. Unfortunately the bright sunshine and calm conditions impacted the quantity of fish but not the quality. Troy finished the day with 16 fish to emerge as a clear winner.
Troy adds the Munster Open title to the Munster closed that he won recently in Waterford. It’s great to see a form angler heading for the world championships later in the year in Spain.
Junior Munster champion 2024 goes to Mochara Fraher. Representing Clashmore SAC, Mochara picked out the flounders in tight to seal the win.
Results
Overall
1st Troy Francis 16 fish 370pts
2nd Aidan O’Sullivan 12 254pt
3rd David O’Sullivan 11fish 229
Juniors
1st Mochara Fraher 2 fish 52pt
Zone A
1st Brian Reidy Galway Bay 9fish 183pt
2nd Jp Molloy West Cork 6 fish 181pt
3rd Timmy O’Sullivan Galway Bay 3 fish 148pt
Zone B
1st David Kennedy West Cork fish 227pt
2nd Finn Healy Tralee Bay fish 159pt
3rd Fiachra Cronin Tralee Bay 6 fish 129pt
John Browne reports on the 9th match of Oakland’s summer league which was fished on Sunday…
Good weights all over today for the 9th round of the Sensas Summer league at Oaklands.
Mr consistent Ronan Minogue winning on the day bagging 79.150 kg.
A close 2nd behind him was Matija Ivkov netting 74.360 kg. And not far behind him in third was Kieran Reeves with 69.680kg.
Big thanks to all the lads great turnout today. Final round Sunday September 22nd.
Today’s Results
1st Ronan Minogue 79.150 kg
2nd Matija Ivkov 74.190 kg
3rd Kieran Reeves 69.680kg
A very popular carp fishery. Popular with competition anglers and novices alike. Alway a great chance of a bumper bag here. Friendly staff more than happy to advise beginner anglers. Caters to all sorts of clubs and groups.
Newport SAC hosted their final competition of the season on Saturday, September 7th. This was a teams event which meant that the total number of fish caught by each of the 4 team members were combined together to calculate the overall winners.
The long awaited summer weather finally arrived on Saturday morning and allowed the anglers to mingle on the quayside over a cup of tea before boarding the boats to head out on to the beautiful, calm seas of Clew Bay.
In clear, blue skies and little or no swell, the boats vied for position around the bay, with some opting to move during the designated fishing times to try to gain a better advantage over the others. Lines were up at the designated time of 4.30pm and all boats returned to Newport Quay, where team members met to discuss their respective catches.
The prize presentation took place in the Grainne Uaille (as they were winners of last year’s local shield) and they also sponsored some hot food for the hungry anglers during the presentation). When all scores were tallied up, the winning team ended up 75 points clear of their nearest rivals but the contest for the 2nd and 3rd places was a much tighter affair as the teams were only separated by 4 fish / 20 points.
The winning team trophy was presented by committee member Shane Gilvarry on behalf of J Coffey Construction to ‘The Village Inn’ winning team members Peter Coyne, Padraig Munnelly, Peter McKeown & Paul Murphy. Each member received €100 in prize money as well as an NSAC plaque and winning trophy.
The Village Inn Team were the overall winners of the J.Coffey sponsored Teams competition. The team members were presented with their prizes by Shane Gilvarry Newport SAC on behalf of the main sponsor J.Coffey construction). From left Paul Murphy, Peter Coyne, Shane Gilvarry NSAC, & Padraig Munnelly.
Peter Coyne also claimed the Individual winners trophy following his haul of 30 fish and 180 points. Jason Moran took home the largest fish prize for his 40″ Conger Eel.
Individual prize winners
1 of 3
Individual category winner in the Newport SAC Teams competition were Peter Coyne (30 fish and 180 points) seen here accepting his prize from Committee member Shane Gilvarry.
The prize for the largest fish was won by Jason Moran for a 40inch conger eel accepting his prize from Shane Gilvarry.
Darragh Magee skipper of the 'Mo Chara' was presented with his Boatmans prize following the Newport SAC Teams competition.
As this was the final event of the year, Declan Moran was presented with the league cup as this years club Master Angler.
Declan Moran was the Newport SAC Master Angler for the 2024 season seen here receiving his prize from committee member Shane Gilvarry.
The club also honoured Club President Pat Moran who was presented with an award for his dedication and support to the club for over 60 years. Pat also became the oldest club member to fish in a Newport SAC competition at 86 years young!
The club honour president Pat Moran with a lifetime achievement award
1 of 2
Club President Pat Moran was presented with a lifetime achievement award for his dedication and support to the club for over 60 years. Pat also became the oldest club member to fish in a Newport SAC competition at 86 years young! From left to right committee members Declan Moran, Sean Fahy, Pat Moran, Jason Moran, Denise Moran & Shane Gilvarry.. Missing from photo was Denise O'Grady & Irene Walsh.
Pat Moran with family members Jason, Mary, his wife Bridie, Shauna, Leah and Rory following the presentation at the recent Newport SAC Teams competition.
The club would like to thank J.Coffey Construction who sponsored the main trophy, Harry & Liz from the Grainne Uaille for sponsoring the food during the presentation, Inland Fisheries Ireland for their continued support and our thanks also to OK Trophies Castlebar for sponsoring the 3rd place Team prizes.
The results are as follows:
Winning Team – Team B (Village Inn) — (Total Fish 49 & Total Points 345)
Peter Coyne (30 Fish & 180 Points), Padraig Munnelly (10 Fish & 80 Points), Peter McKeown (9 Fish & 85 Points), Paul Murphy (0 Fish & 0 Points),
Runner-Up Team – Team C (J. Coffey) — (Total Fish 38 & Total Points 270)
Mary Pavey (14 Fish & 110 Points), Eoin Kirby (11 Fish & 75 Points), Sean Kilroy (12 Fish & 60 Points), Jason Moran (1 Fish & 25 Points)
3rd Place Team – Team F (Abbvie) — (Total Fish 32 & Total Points 250)
Ed Kirby (12 Fish & 110 Points), Dave Fearson (9 Fish & 65 Points), Paul Ruddy (9 Fish & 65 Points), Padraic Ketterick (2 Fish & 10 Points),
4th Place Team – Team D (Gilvarry’s) — (Total Fish 27 & Total Points 185)
Shane Gilvarry (5 Fish & 25 Points), Joe McManamon (7 Fish & 55 Points), Danny Murphy (9 Fish & 75 Points), Ciaran McGowan (6 Fish & 30 Points)
5th Place Team – Team A (Grainne Uaile) — (Total Fish 22 & Total Points 170)
David Moran (8 Fish & 70 Points), Declan Moran (1 Fish & 5 Points), Pat Moran (9 Fish & 75 Points), Thomas Moran (4 Fish & 20 Points)
6th Place Team – Team G (Brodericks) — (Total Fish 25 & Total Points 125)
Clodagh Moran (10 Fish & 50 Points), Eoghan Ketterick (10 Fish & 50 Points), Aaron Ketterick (3 Fish & 15 Points), Roisin Moran (2 Fish & 10 Points)
7th Place Team – Team E (Westport House) — (Total Fish 13 & Total Points 115)
Sean Fahy (4 Fish & 50 Points), Mick Moran (9 Fish & 65 Points), Francis O’Toole (0 Fish & 0 Points), Robert Healy (Did not fish)
1 of 2
J Coffey's Team were runners up in the Newport SAC Teams competition. From left Team members Eoin Kirby, Mary Pavey, Jason Moran & Sean Kilroy (missing from photo) with Shane Gilvarry (2nd from right)
The Abbvie Team finished the day in third place in the Newport SAC Teams competition. From left Team members Paul Ruddy, Padraic Ketterick, Ed Kirby & Dave Fearson.
Local Shield: The local shield was won by the Grainne Uaille TEAM A – This ensures that next year’s presentation will once again take place in the Grainne Uaille.
The Grainne Uaille Team were the local shield winners on the day. Team members from left Declan Moran, Pat Moran, David Moran & Thomas Moran. were presented with their prizes by Shane Gilvarry.
Overall Individual Winner: Peter Coyne (Total Fish 30 & Total Points 180)
Largest Fish: Caught by Jason Moran (Conger – 40″)
Club Master Angler 2024: Declan Moran.
Skipper of the Day: Darragh Magee who skippered Mo Chara.
Peter Driver of Piscari Fly is back with his weekly roundup of the fishing scene on the Nore and beyond:
How’s the Fishing
Lough Corrib
Over the weekend the T.A.F.I. All Ireland Lake Championships were held on the mighty Lough Corrib out of Oughterard Pier. Mark was up on Friday for some practice before hand with our friend Roger. They had some good fishing in very bright & hot conditions. Saturday, then was the day for the Championships. 50 anglers on 25 boats headed out from Oughterard pier fishing from 11am to 6pm. Over the 7 hour fishing session, conditions started off well with nice wind and cloudy conditions for pulling & dries. Some fish were met pulling before the sun got high and burnt away the hazy sky. Winds dropped and things became hot out on the water with very bright sunshine. Less fish showing themselves at times. Some cloud cover came in afternoon for approx 1.5 hrs providing some nice dry ripple winds, cover from the sun and a hatch to come on with a good rise of fish coming on. Dries proved to be the best method for the weekend with small dark sedges proving best on long leaders.
Congratulations to this years All-Ireland Champion Shane Callen with 3 fish, followed closely behind by another Leinster angler Eddie Rowe from Wicklow with 3 fish. In 3rd was Hubert Smith also from Dundalk Anglers fllowed by Fergal Cormican with 2 fish. A tough day for many with only 28 fish caught by 17 anglers out of the 50 anglers competing. But as always Corrib is a beautiful lake to have the joy of being out on with its beautiful islands, vast hills in the distance and the stunning trout it holds below the surface.
1 of 3
The River Nore
So not much update on the Nore, fishing has gone back to being a bit patchy. The drop of fresh water has gone out of the river now and so its low again with lots of weed. Hopefully we can get a wash out before the end of the season which is fast approaching at the end of the month and get few good days on the river before it all shuts down at the end of the month. It’s been slow all week with the evening rise basically finished now and not much activity at daytime at the moment. Hopefully some rain comes soon for a few good weeks fishing to end the season.
Contact piscarifly@gmail.com for any questions or queries. We have permits in store for the Nore.
Piscari Travels
The final big International Championship is coming up, The 5 Nations, will take place in France on the 15th to 20th September. Established in 2014, The 5 Nations Fly Fishing Championship (5NFFC) was formed to enable multiple teams from the UK and Europe to compete and gain experience in a FIPS-Mouche style format over boat, bank and river disciplines. The venues are River Isère (River sector), Lac de Tignes (2 Lake sectors) & Lac Méribel (Lake sector).
Our very own Mark Driver is captain of one of the teams, so best of luck to Mark and his team which consists of Mark Driver, Campbell Baird, Shane Callen and Rodger Fowler. There will be daily updates, interviews and videos posted on Piscari-Fly Club. Mark will come on every evening with some updates i.e. pictures, videos of the sessions and things like that. so make sure you tune into our club to follow the teams journey through the 5 nations. Wish them and the other Team Ireland the best of luck and looking forward to hearing all about it.
The launch of the Irish Spring Angling Fair 2025 is in October. Peter Driver, Tom Doc Sullivan and Jimmy Tyrell will be tying at the event down in Ardaire Springs, Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny. Make sure you come along on the day and check it out. Sunday October 20th from 10am. There will also be casting clinics with Jason O’Riordan and Maurice Cahill.
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 there 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.
The Rossinver Fishey Syndicate and Foyle River-catchment Outdoor Group (FROGs) jointly organised the World Youth Lough Open competition on Sunday, September 8th, on Lough Melvin. The competition was fished by 42 young anglers and they were ably assisted by 24 of Ireland’s most experienced anglers who acted as boatmen/women for the day.
Full house on Melvin
It was 15-year-old Jack Reidy, from Loughrea in Galway, who won the event with a total of 7 fish, including a monster trout of 78cm – estimated at over 9lbs – which was released along with all of the fish landed on the day. Jack is one of the Irish youth team members who recently won gold in this year’s international at Grafham Reservoir, so it’s been a busy summer for him! Fintan Carlin (current Irish Youth Captain) was runner up and winner of the 16 – 22 age group with 6 fish, and young Erin McCloskey aged 11 who won the Ladies title.
Fish of a lifetime for Jack
The winning prize was jointly sponsored and presented by Rossinver Fishery and Garrison & Lough Melvin Anglers (GLMA) and was presented to Jack by Philip Rooney (RF) and Terry McGovern (GLMA).
The prizegiving ceremony
1 of 20
Trophy table
PK Motors sponsored WYLO Winner: Jack Reidy
Jack Reidy proudly displays his trophy
Fintan Carlin winner of the FROG CIC Sponsored 16 and over category of the World Youth Lough Open Competition on Lough Melvin yesterday.
Fintan Carlin winner of the FROG CIC Sponsored 16 and over category of the World Youth Lough Open Competition on Lough Melvin yesterday.
3rd place 17-22 Category WYLO: John Anthony Leigh Livingstone
4th place 17-22 Category WYLO: Damien Wilson
5th place 17-22 Category WYLO: Fintan Kilpatrick
6th place 17-22 Category WYLO: Thomas Grew
Deele Community Anglers sponsored 11-16 Category WYLO: Noah Jonston
The final table
Fifty three trout were caught and released by the participating anglers, with individual prizes awarded to winners in various categories. Sharpes of Aberdeen were the lead sponsor of the event, and the organisers managed to pull together over €7,000 in prizes and support. Such was the scale of the event that over 150 angling folk were in attendance at the presentation BBQ! IFI were proud to provide a boat and crew to assist and support the competition boats on the water.
IFI Go Fishing Fund part of Government’s Dormant Accounts Fund Action Plan 2024
Inland Fisheries Ireland(IFI) is seeking applications to a new €250k fund enabling those who are disabled or disadvantaged to enjoy fishing and related activities.
IFI’s Go Fishing Fund 2024 will provide angling supports to people with a disability or restricted mobility, or people facing social, economic, or educational barriers.
Applications for the scheme can be submitted via IFI’s dedicated portal from today until November 7th, 2024.
Barry Fox Deputy CEO of IFI commented: “IFI’s Go Fishing Fund 2024 will play a key role in empowering people to take up angling on Ireland’s many rivers and lakes – regardless of background or ability.
“This new investment will provide opportunities to experience recreational fishing and the natural environment. It allows people to pursue personal growth, education, or social inclusion by taking up angling-related leisure activities.”
Grants of between €2,000 and €5,000 will be allocated in the new initiative for fishing facilities, equipment, events, and biodiversity awareness outreach.
Eligible projects are being sought from not-for-profit organisations or registered charities delivering services to disadvantaged or disabled communities/persons.
Such organisations may collaborate with educational institutions, angling clubs, or federations to deliver fishing or related educational activities.
Applications can be made for fishing activities, and the purchase of fishing and/or related safety equipment.
They can also be made for the delivery of educational programmes concerning environmental stewardship, water safety, careful handling and release of fish, and vulnerable fish habitats.
The €250k expenditure is part of a suite of measures included in the State’s Dormant Accounts Fund Action Plan 2024 involving 11 Government departments – including IFI’s parent department, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
The Dormant Accounts Fund provides a framework for the administration of unclaimed accounts in credit institutions such as banks, building societies and An Post, and unclaimed life assurance policies in insurance undertakings.
This report in from the organisers of the weekend’s Belturbet Autumn Festival 2024:
Well that’s a wrap for another year, as forty four anglers fished hard on venues around the Belturbet area over five days of competition. Massive congrats to Belturbet angler Roger Baker on finishing in 1st place, with some of the biggest weights across any festival in Ireland. Venues fished during the week included Killygowen, Town Lake, Eonish, Deravona and Killykeen/Derries and every venue produced the goods – with some exceptional weights, like the 59kg/130lb haul for Baker on Day four from Killygowen which put him in first position. Michael Buchwalder’s strong performance on day five saw him close the gap, but when the claxon sounded he was just over 2kg shy of pole position, with Baker’s 3500g getting him over the line in first.
Scenes from the prizegiving at the Castle Sports Bar & Gastro Pub
1 of 3
As always our main sponsor The Castle Sports & Gastro Bar Belturbet put on an amazing show for us all week, the craic in the pub every evening was great it was like being back in the old days. The night of the presentation was unbelievable, with the lads up singing karaoke going on till the early hours. Massive thanks to Ray and all the staff for their top notch service as always.
This year we were delighted to have MAP Fishing came on board to sponsor us. With world champ Michael Buchwalder representing them, he fished amazing all week showing everyone how suited to Ireland the map tackle is and just falling short of the top spot himself.
Irish Bait and Tackle Limited massive thanks to Sarah McPartland and all the lads at the bait farm – they had a real tough time leading into the festival as most of you know, but worked literally through the night to make sure everyone had enough bait. Great to have the only Irish made bait on our door step and so willing to help us out
Inland Fisheries Ireland – great assistance from the IFI lads again, helping out with pegs and providing other forms of support to help us run this event successfully.
This is Cavan – great to also be working with Cavan tourism. We do pride our selves on showcasing what Cavan fishing can really be like.
Maura Hughes Church View B&B who isn’t keeping anglers at the minute but has continued to sponsoring top overseas angler.
Thanks to Cazalan B&B, a lot of our anglers stayed with them and all say how well they get looked after and we would highly recommend anyone coming to the area for fishing or pleasure to give them a shout.
The National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland report on the recently held Youth Team Qualifiers:
What can we say, all credit to Team Ireland Youth Manager Adrian Browne for bringing through this group of talented young anglers all coming together for the first time keen for a spot on the world stage.
Most of our young anglers aspiring to fish the World Championships in Spain next year joined us at Gaulmoylestown AC Carp Match Ireland yesterday to display their match fishing expertise. Two 3-hour competitions were fished in accordance with FIPSed rules and with bait limits at play.
Bright futures
1 of 12
Well done to John Mulligan and Conor Fitzharris for winning the matches overall. Weights were close and it’s a very well done to each and every one of these dedicated individuals some who had travelled many miles to take part.
Final scores
Adrian will review the performances of yesterday along with all criteria in accordance with protocol with a view to proposing his team in the coming days. The selection protocol can be viewed here https://www.ncffi.ie/teamireland/
A big thanks to Dave & Louise at Gaulmoylestown Lake, a superb facility ideal for bringing on the talent of young anglers and to Irish Bait and Tackle Limited for sponsoring the maggots. Plus to Jack Tisdall, James O’Doherty and Mary Tigwell for their support. Lastly to all the parents for supporting these young anglers’ commitment to angling sport.
well the summer may be officially over, but Autumn is starting with some nice weather, with temperatures up to 24C today here in the West of Ireland.
August proved a very windy month, with the jetstream settled over Ireland and drawing in windy weather almost constantly. So a respite from the constant wind was welcome over the last week, with some fine settled days giving sea anglers in particular a much needed boost.
Charter boats have suffered of late with the windy conditions, so it is no surprise to see some good charter fishing reports this week from around the country. In Donegal, some Belfast anglers enjoyed fantastic fishing with Saoire Mara charters, the highlight being a fine 4lbs tub gurnard.
Near specimen size tub gurnard
In Galway Bay, settled weather produced some fine fishing for anglers on the Brazen Hussy II, while in Clare Luke Aston’s guests had some great sport on the deeper reefs, as well as some blue shark and tope. Also in Clare, the Isle of Aran was out in the good weather, and guests enjoyed some fantastic fishing, including some great spurdogs.
Fine spurdog
Courtmacsherry Angling had some fine fishing, with superb skate and ray fishing from inshore marks, while their first bluefin trip of the season was a success, with a fish of 87 inches brought to the boat and tagged. West Cork Charters also spotted bluefin inshore, but the plan was shark fishing and the plan was achieved, with 6 shark virgins catching their first ever blue, while skipper Dave Edwards also landed a fine stone basse.
First stone basse of 2024 for Dave Edwards
In Wexford, skipper Walter Rankin reports that fishing on the Karen Ann out of Kilmore Quay has been pretty good with a variety of species caught.
Sea temperatures are at their warmest now, with the greatest range of species available to be caught. One unusual species better known from warmer waters is the bonito, and one was caught this week at St. John’s Point in Donegal! The rarity of the catch makes this our Catch of the Week.
A very rare catch in Irish waters…Bonito from the shore
Another unusual catch was made by Cormac Walsh, he of the Lure Fishing podcast fame, who fished a likely mark for bass/pollack in Cork, but the fish that took his Sandy Andy lure was a very unexpected John Dory!
David Norman from Angling Adenture West Cork has had a frustrating time recently, with all of his August booking s cancelled due to weather, but he finally got out with Darren Cousins and put him over some great pollack fishing, including a new PB.
The senior anglers at the Belmullet Two-Day Festival had to play second fiddle to the young Gilvarry anglers, wth Billy taking the overall win and Sally Gilvarry the best junior angler title.
While August was frustrating for sea anglers, the wet and wndy weather was a boon for our spate rivers, with great fishing reported from the Erriff Fishery, with the best fish a 15lbs salmon for Kevin Mitchell.
Kevin Mitchell with his 15lbs fish (released after photo)
Fishery manager David McEvoy says that last month was the wettest August at Delphi since 1985, even beating 1986 when readers of a certain age (ahem!) will recall the remnants of Hurricane Charlie giving us a right soaking. The wet conditiosn produced great salmon fishing, with 79 salmon reported for the month, and sea trout fishing is going really well into September.
A fresh grilse for Rich Taylor (catch photo release)
High water on the Moy made for difficult conditions and much reduced angling effort, although 61 salmon were reported from the river for the week.Hopefully a bit of settled weather will bring it into fishing order again soon. In Galway, August was a washout, with 12 salmon reported for the early part of the month, but water levels rapidly increased and it looks like staying high for most of September too. A few fish came from the Laune, although there were none reported from the Killarney lakes, and salmon fishing continued to be regarded as poor on the Munster Blackwater.
While rivers in the west have experienced floods, those in the east have been less affected, and some superb trout fishing was reported from the Nore by Peter Driver. Dan O’Neill also reports great dry fly fishing there for his guests.
Georges Milan with a nice trout
Kevin Lyons from Melview Lodge in Longford is better known for coarse angling, but he guided a US visitor to some excellent trout fishing on lure.
Richard from the US is all smiles with this cracking trout
Lovely Lough Arrow trout caught by local angler Josh Smith (age 11)
Coarse angling is getting busy with festival fishing again, and belated congratulations to Dara Finnegan on winning the inaugural Athlone River Festival match on the Big Meadow in Athlone recently.
Bert and Ronald with one of their great catches of bream and tench
Conditions were tough for Lauren and Stephen, guests of Chris Scally from FishTales but perseverance paid off and they were rewarded with some good pike action on Lough Ree.
Also on Lough Ree, 35 teams fought it out for the Lough Ree Predator Challenge, the best yet in its 4year history, with some great pike to 108cm landed, as well as trout to 75cm and perch to 36cm.
Other News
Inland Fisheries Ireland(IFI) is seeking applications to a new €250k fund enabling those who are disabled or disadvantaged to enjoy fishing and related activities.
IFI’s Go Fishing Fund 2024 will provide angling supports to people with a disability or restricted mobility, or people facing social, economic, or educational barriers.
Applications for the scheme can be submitted via IFI’s dedicated portal from today until November 7th, 2024.
Warm and mainly dry for the rest of today with long spells of sunshine developing in most areas. It will be cloudy at times in the south with the chance of some coastal showers developing there later. Highest temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees with light to moderate northeasterly winds, fresher at times near eastern coasts.
Largely dry tomorrow with a mix of cloud and sunny spells, best in the west and north, with the odd shower in Munster and Leinster.. Highest temperatures of 19 to 24 degrees in light variable breezes. Turning dull and cloudy for Sunday with some patchy rain and drizzle and a chance of heavier rain in the southeast. Becoming drier towards the evening with sunny spells developing. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees in light to moderate N/NW winds.
Monday will start dry and sunny in the morning before turning cloudier from the west with well scattered showers following. A cooler day with highest temperatures of 14 to 19 degrees in moderate, occasionally fresh, westerly winds.
Tuesday sees sunshine and showers expected, most frequent in the north where they may be heavy. Highest temperatures of 11 to 16 degrees in moderate to fresh west to northwest winds, strong at times in the north and northwest.
Don’t forget to check the forecast before heading off and if you’re going to sea, check the tides.
If you have an angling story to share with the Irish Angling Update please send it to reports@fisheriesireland.ie and don’t forget that all of our fishing reports are available on our dedicated Angling Ireland Facebook page.
Recently, Belmullet SAC held their popular annual beach angling competition. The two day event was fished on two beaches on the Mullet Peninsula: Cross Beach and Drum Beach. Read their short report below…
With very little surf and the incredible sun beaming all day (nobody was complaining ;-)) a good variety of fish were caught including a fine 37 cm flounder by Cormac Burke Killybegs Mariners.
Fishing was marginally better on day two on Drum Beach with a total of 82 fish caught, recorded and released. Many thanks to the anglers who traveled long (and short) distances for this 2-day competition in what is our 60th year in existence.
It’s your ongoing participation that makes it worthwhile!
Final results were as follows:
Overall winner: Billy Gilvarry
2nd place: Darren Reynolds
3rd place: Martin Carey
Best Angler Saturday: Billy Gilvarry
Best Angler Sunday: Martin Carey
Longest fish: Martin Carey
Best Junior Angler: Sally Gilvarry.
Again congratulations to the winners! And many thanks to all participants and the officers of the club, who have helped to keep the club alive for the past 60 years.
