Elaine Corps out fished her husband at Delphi !

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July 3, 2012

David McEvoy reports from Delphi:

29/06/12: Family Affairs -Week 26 produced 16 fish, which given the conditions was disappointing. The quality of the fish was excellent. There were quite a few fish seen but there was no great take.

We had 6 fish on the 25^th. Reinhard Mittmann managed to level things up with his son Nico. Reinhard had two fish, one of 6lbs12ozs and one of 3lbs12ozs, both off Finlough and both on Collie Dogs. Nico’s fish were also off Finlough on a Willie Gunn and Sunrae Shadow respectively and weighed in at 3lbs8ozs and 3lbs15ozs.

Fred Possinger and Johannes Hipp also had fish off Finlough on Collie Dogs weighing in at 3lbs11.5ozs and 5lbs2ozs.

26^th was slow with only 2 landed. Werner Zirngibl did manage to land his first Irish salmon of the year, in the Grilse pool on a Collie Dog. The fish was approx. 2lbs.

Benny Weltz managed to land his first ever, off Finlough on a Willie Gunn,weighing in at 7lbs2ozs.

We had three fish on the 27^th with Reinhard Mittmann landing two off Finlough both on Delphi Collie’s weighing in at 4lbs and 4lbs15ozs.

Angelika Krieg also managed to land her first ever salmon. The fish was taken on a Cascade off Finlough and weighed 3lbs13ozs.

We blanked on the 28^th and Gerda Possinger landed two on the 29^th off Finlough on Collie Dogs weighing in at 8lbs9ozs and 4lbs7ozs.

Gerda Possinger with her two salmon weighing 8lbs9ozs and 4lbs7ozs.

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01/07/12: Yesterday was a great day for Elaine Corps, wife of IFI’s fishing guru and top angler, Marks Corps. Elaine landed her first ever salmon and in doing so completely out fished her husband. He did inform me that he was the ghillie for the day and it was his duty to catch his wife a fish. Good story Mark!! Congratulations to Elaine in landing her first a cracking 8lbs6ozs sea liced fish on a Collie Dog off Finlough. Hope it will be the first of many.

Philip Fleming managed to land a sea liced fish of approx. 4.5lbs from Finlough stream on a Collie Dog. It is Philip’s first Delphi visit and he also lost a fine fish on the river in the afternoon.

Mike Shortt also managed to land one from the Horseshoe pool, but I’m afraid he’s bringing down our average. The fish was approx. 2lbs and was taken on a Cascade.

So far today we have one fish landed. This was taken by Hans Majeron from Finlough on a Black and Yellow tube and weighed 3lbs7ozs.

Hopefully with good water we will see a steady increase in the number of fish running.

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

Great day at NCFFI Inter Provincial Youth Championship on Inniscarra Lake

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July 3, 2012

Munster Coarse Angling Council hosted the NCFFI Inter Provincial Youth Championships 2012 on Inniscarra Lake at Dripsey, Co Cork on Saturday June 30 th Sunday July 1st 2012.

Eight man Teams from each Province around Ireland with youths from 10 to 18 years of age, fished for the honours to become Inter Provincial Champions 2012 over the two days of competition. Ulster took the honours with a run away victory, in second place was Connacht, third Leinster and runners up Munster.

Ulster winning Team; Ann Theedom, James O’Doherty, Billy Williams, Jordon Hall, Arron Hutchman, James Howell, Josh Cavanagh, Kieran Kelly.

Munster may have not faired so well in the team event but they did get the Individual honours with local 10 year old Christy Fehilly from Dripsey fishing a fantastic match winning each day and overall individual winner of the event with a total weight of 18kg 500grs.

Bream, Skimmers, Roach and Hybreds were the target fish and in total 315 kg were caught and released by the teams over the two days, fishing a float only match to International FIPsed rules.

This Inter Provincial also selected the Irish Team for the Celtic Cup against Scotland and Wales which will again be held on Inniscarra Lake on 11th &12th August, the Senior Celtic Cup will also be held the weekend prior to the Youths event 4th & 5th, and we welcome spectators along to these events to give support to theIrish teams or indeed the other Celtic Cup Teams.

Irish Youth Celtic Cup Team 2012, Christy Fehilly-Munster, James Cavanagh-Ulster, James Howell-Ulster, James O’Doherty- Ulster, Mark Fullen-Connacht, Thomas Quinlian-Munster, Kieran Kelly-Ulster, Josh Kelly- Connacht. Irish Youth Team Manager, Gavin Walsh from Dublin is really looking forward to this event and he is hopeful his Team will do well and defend this title they won in Scotland last year.

The Munster CAC is really please with how successful this weekend went and we would like to thank a few people who made all this possible. Our Sponsors, Michael Hennessy of Inland Fisheries Ireland who sorted out the Permits for the Teams at very short notice. Mick Brown, Oakland’s lake, New Ross, John O’ Brien, Waterford Angling & Outdoor Centre, ESB & Land owners at Inniscarra lake, O’Callaghan’s Bar and the Village Inn Coachford. Waterford & District Anglers, South Munster Coarse Angling Club, Fermoy Coarse Angling Association. Our Children Officers Dave Norbury and Pat Dalton and the NCFFI Secretary Shean Kavanagh for making the presentations and John Connolly NCFFI Treasurer for photos and we thank all the teams who travelled and supported the event.

Results Team & individual click here

T. Lawton

MCAC Hon Sec

Congratulations to Jim Hendrick, SEAi on winning joint runner-up in Wexford Business Awards

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July 3, 2012

Congratulations to Jim Hendrick, South East Angling Ireland on receiving the joint runner-up award in the Tourism category of The Wexford Business Awards 2012 in Whites hotel last Friday night. It was a real honour for Jim to share the stage with the other runners-up, Bill and Isobel Kelly of Kelly’s Resort Hotel. Kelly’s Resort Hotel went on to win the overall Wexford Business Award.

Jim says “To have been shortlisted within this group of dynamic Wexford tourism business providers was in itself a privilege. To receive the runner-up award was beyond my greatest expectation.

I feel this award will only help to strengthen the validity of the bass fishing product in this country. Thanks to all my friends, customers and loyal bass fishing network.”

Well done Jim.

To contact Jim:

Phone: 053 9123351 or Mobile 086 3444557

E-mail: sportfishing@eircom.net
Web: www.bassfishing.ie/
www.probassfisher.com/

Owenmore Fishery in Co. Kerry had it's first two grisle of the season

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July 2, 2012

Report from Owenmore Fishery in Kerry:
30/06/12: The river is very high at the moment. If the rain eases off this evening it will be fishing on Sunday. We had our first two grisle of the season during the week and seatrout up to 3 1/2 lbs. An American fisherman had 8 trout on the lake over a lb on the 27th.
Owenmore Fishery
http://www.owenmorefishery.ie/

High levels of water reported on the River Slaney.

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July 2, 2012

The river Slaney has stayed at winter level virtually all week and even now is at 2ft. As a result the sea trout are very well spread out in the main river and will be hard to catch until they are more concentrated. A side effect of this is that trout anglers are meeting numbers of salmon with 2 rods both getting 2 salmon on Sunday. The tributaries are producing good numbers of sea trout.

The high water has had one very undesirable side effect with a number of unscrupulous and illegal anglers targeting and killing salmon using flying Cs and other spinners (sometimes) under the cover of bubble and fly fishing. Generally this involves trespassing on Club and other private water. The problem is most acute in locations close to the road such as the area immediately below Clohamon weir. We have to ensure that the fly only and catch and release rules are observed by all anglers if the river is to recover. While IFI are actively patrolling the river please report and illegal fishing activity to the Clonmel office at 052 618 0055 or ring the 24hr hotline 0818 34 74 24.

Report from The Slaney River Trust

http://www.slaneyrivertrust.ie/

Only a few rods out on the Munster Blackwater but superb fish caught

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July 2, 2012

Sunday July 1st: With the water very high it looked as if no-one would venture out on Friday.

Eventually Kieran Conlon went out for a half day at Ballyhooly – the only rod out on the fishery.

It turned out to be very well worthwhile. He killed one fish of 6lb. on worms (below on net) & released a grilse on spinner & this 11 pounder on fly. A remarkable result considering that the clarity of the water was at best between 1 – 1 1/2 feet.

Yesterday (Saturday) Tim Harty (left) & Steven Slattery also fished Ballyhooly. They released two fish on spinner – this lovely 8 pounder for Tim & a 5 pounder for Steven. Pat Quirke also had two sea-liced fish from Kents on the lower river on spinner. He kept an 8.8lb. and released another fish of ~6lb.

Ballyhooly is definitely the place to be at the moment.

Today (Sunday) Chris Whelan (left) landed three – these two fish of 9.1 & 9.4lb & a grilse he released.

Larry Sheridan (right) fished with him & took this 7.4lb. They lost another three fish as well.

They saw a large number of fish running through the beat during the day.

Joe Lonergan caught a sea-liced 5 pounder at the Jole on Lower Kilmurry on the lower river to make it 5 for the day.

The upper & lower river were both dropping slowly overnight. However some heavy rain later yesterday (especially in the upper catchment) brought the upper river up 27 cm this morning, peaking at lunchtime & now falling again slowly. The clarity above wasn’t great as the rising water was rather dirty.
The lower river was rising slowly & steadily through the day, but the clarity was good at 2 1/2 – 3 feet.

Prospects
As I write (23.00) there is another band of quite heavy rain coming into the upper catchment which will keep the river topped up.
With the high water & the superb run of fish coming in, prospects of sport in the coming weeks are brilliant!

Monday July 2nd: As expected, the band of heavy rain came sweeping down through the catchment. I had 12mm of rain on my gauge this morning. The word from the upper river is that it is up 1 1/2 feet & dirty. At Killavullen it has risen 40cm since 04.00am.

I just heard (11.30am) that there is a very dirty flood coming through the lower river now which is obviously coming in from the Araglen tributary.

The lower river will be sure to rise again as well.

Ian & Glenda Powell
Blackwater Lodge & Salmon Fishery
Upper Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.
Tel: 00 353 58 60235 From UK: 0871 474 0135 (10p/min any time!)
Mobile: 00 353 87 235 21 20
E-mail: info@ireland-salmon-fishing.net Website: www.ireland-salmon-fishing.net

Lousy fishing for Michael off Donegal coast

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July 2, 2012

Michael McVeigh, skipper of the Rosguill tells us “Fishing would be lousy ….if there were any fish! Despite a few nice photos of fish caught, the fishing is now as bad as it has been in 12 years. Mackeral extremely patchy. Limeburnber atrocious. Sand – practically nothing. Wrecks – hardly any Pollack. A few Tope and Spurdogs, but not as many as should be. My theory is that the calm and easterly winds have meant that there has not been a normal swell off this coast for around 3 months now. But who knows?”

Heather & Michael McVeigh
The Fisherman’s Village Lodge
Downings
Co Donegal

Telephone: 074 9155080 / +353 74 9155080
eMail: info@rosguill.com
Web: http://www.rosguill.com/category/fishing-news/

Introducing Coarse Angling to the Masses at Carlow Town Park

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July 2, 2012

Ashley Hayden sends us this report from Carlow:

“Will you take me fishing“, is a time honoured request from wide eyed children which in today’s world is becoming harder for parents to fulfil, due most likely to work commitments or not having the knowledge or fishing experience to hand. In days gone by a father, relative, friend, or neighbour would step into the breach. With the average age of anglers climbing I believe into the late forties/early fifties these trusted angling fonts of wisdom are becoming increasingly thin on the ground. Enter stage left willing members of the Carlow Coarse Angling Club.

River bank schooling, learning to fish with Carlow Coarse Angling Club on the River Barrow, Carlow

Setting up a pitch beside the River Barrow in Carlow Town Park, members of the C.C.A.C. armed with recently donated fishing equipment got ready to introduce coarse fishing to an attentive public in a practical informal fashion. One of many outdoor activities showcased at the Carlow Sports Partnership event held in Carlow Town Park last Sunday 1st July, warm sunshine (at least until 16.00pm) and a carnival atmosphere drew the crowds. Midday to 17.00pm went in a blur for C.C.A.C. members Ian Warburton, Noel Jenkins, and Ashley Hayden as a steady stream of youngsters and their parents tried their hand at feeder and stick float fishing.

Ashley Hayden explaining fishing to a young lady who caught her first fish - Dace

Rigs and methods were explained along with advice on rods/reels, bait, ground bait mix, fish biology and handling. Hooks were baited and rigs cast, expectant faces watched the feeder tips waiting for the rattle then lifted as taught. Most times the hook would trail in empty, fast biting dace being a match for the most experienced angler, however a succession of dace and roach generated many smiling faces throughout the afternoon as that first fish marker was crossed.

Parents expressed their thanks which was much appreciated, to be honest though and I can speak for my colleagues here as well, it was a privilege to give the time. Angling has given us all so much over the years, great memories, friends, visits to beautiful locations, and a love of the natural world for starters. If our time given kick starts a similar path for a young boy or girl then we’ve succeeded. Well done to all who took part and thanks Gerry for the grub, it kept the blood sugar levels up on what was a very enjoyable afternoon.

Ashley Hayden,

An Angler’s world

http://www.anirishanglersworld.com/index.php/contact/

mailto:anirishanglersworld@gmail.com

Demery boys strike fish in Dún Laoghaire

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July 2, 2012

Bill and Charlie Demery did a couple of fishing trips on Saturday 30th June with not so spectacular results but something at least….

On the early incoming tide we decided to do a spot of mackerel fishing at Collymore harbour for some spare bait and a nice barbecue. The season isn’t in full swing but they’re still around. All in all about 15-20 mackerel were caught in the harbour at the morning tide, with us catching 2 but only landing 1 (but decent-sized). Later on, at full low tide we made our way to a beach (not naming it because it was where I was bait digging as you will see) and Charlie went kitesurfing. With the free time I had, I took the opportunity to go bait digging for a while so I dug one ‘uber-long’ trench and a couple more smaller trenches after in search of a silver bed with no luck. But I had yielded too many lugworm and I even had to throw some back into the sand seeing as I had enough bait. I passed the time watching the few lugs that I threw back into the sand burrow, which was a bit like watching paint dry but they eventually made it.

As the evening pushed on, we decided to move on to Dun laoghaire’s east pier on the outside to use up our bait for whatever we could catch like codling, lesser spotted dogs, pollack, coalfish, or whatever else. After about only ten minutes I got a strike. I got a bit excited and jumped to the rod to set the hook tugging at the line to get the gripper lead out (which was quite firmly in the ground) and played her in. As I got my first glimpse I thought it was a pollack, she then swam out of sight. I wound back in the lost line and pulled it in a bit further and saw it was a ballan wrasse! It resisted being wound in for a sec but then I landed her. She was at least a pound and a half but could be a tiny bit larger. I didn’t weigh it though, so I can’t be sure.

It was too shallow to release her from dry land so I had to take off my shoes and socks and wade out (soaking my land shorts) and let her go.

Anyway, I’m pleased to add another fish to my years species count (which isn’t huge so far) and I look forward to more fishing over the summer.

Report compliments of Bill Demery

Good run of grilse continues for the Drowes with fish in the double figures also

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July 2, 2012

Billy Gilbert Had This 12lbs Fish On Yellow Flying c From The Old Sea Pool On Tuesday.

28/06/12: The water level is at just under 0.6 metres on the gauge. There was some heavy rain for a time last night but no major rise in water levels. The good run of grilse continues with some double figure fish also running. There was a large run of fish this morning, the largest run since Saturday when good numbers of fish were reported, especially on prawn, J. Walters and P. Filer accounted for nine fish between them last Saturday from the Lareen stretch on small pink prawn, the largest of which was 8lbs, releasing 4. Some of the larger fish in the past days were K. Connor’s 10lbs fish on fly from Scott’s Corner on the 22nd and B. Grimes 9lbs fish from the Old Sea Pool yesterday.
The weather for the weekend is showery with westerly winds, feeling colder than normal for late June. Milder, more settled weather is forecast for next week.
Tides are getting larger ahead of Monday’s new moon with tides of 4 metres plus.