Liam Kane, Dublin, enjoyed good mullet fishing at Laytown last week. The high point of the day was when he caught this lovely mullet which weighed 5 lb 12 oz. Ray McElhenney, Laytown, was fishing with Liam and also had reason to be happy landing another good fish of 5 lb 10 oz.
Bill Hickey sent in this photo of a 24.08 lb specimen pike caught in a competition 16/10/11 by Jimmy Ryan, St. Flannans Fishing Club. The fish was caught on the Lower Shannon at Farrells Island and was safely released after this picture was taken.
Charles Plunkett sent in this photograph of a 1.04m pike caught by one of two Dutchmen staying at Belle Isle from 1st to 7th October.
The pair, father and son, only caught 40 pike in the week but this was the biggest.
Charles Plunkett
Belle Isle
Lisbellaw,
Co.Fermanagh,
T: +44 (0)28 66387231
E: [email protected]
Pat McLoughlin had some visitors from Corsica over the last week. Fishing in the Cavan area last Sunday the lads had 14 pike on Sunday 16th October to 7lbs. All pike were taken on either lure or roach baits. The water is up and coloured in most lakes and the cold windy weather with generally overcast skies with sunny intervals made fishing difficult. Pat reports that the water temperatures dropped from 52 degrees on Sunday to 45 degrees today Wednesday 19th October. The group fished again with Pat in the Cavan area on Wednesday 19th October and boated 10 pike to 20lbs. An additional 15 fish were missed and all boated fish were only lip hooked. Lures again produced the best results.
If you fancy a days pike fishing with Pat he can be contacted at 086 1017415 email: [email protected]
Marc O’Regan has had a few outings over the last week on the lakes in the Cavan, Monaghan and Westmeath areas. Marc reports lots of small fish on lures with his best fish weighing in at 14lbs. Marc and guests recorded a total of 44 pike over three days.
If you fancy a days pike fishing with Marc O’Regan, he can be contacted at 087 9153002
On Lough Ramor in Co Cavan, Pat Christie from Kells fished with a few angling buddies over the weekend. During a night session Pat hooked and landed a beautiful 22lb fish. The fished took a ledgered dead bait and was returned safely to the lake after weighing. A number of pike to 10lbs were caught and released off the pier in Virginia over the last week. Fish were taken on dead bait and spinners.
Lough Muckno continues to fish well at the moment and some great catches have been recorded by pleasure and competition anglers during the last week. Water levels were high over the weekend with a slight tinge of colour and there were squally showers and light onshore winds. On Saturday last 15th October 4 anglers of international standard from the Irish Angling Development Alliance (IADA) test fished a stretch at Yellow Island on Lough Muckno and produced nice mixed bags which were just short of 30lbs. Feeder and pole both produced results. Anglers fishing with the pole fished maggot at 11.5m and 14m over pinkies and caster. Catches consisted mainly of roach, hybrids and skimmers with occasional bream to 5lbs being recorded. Feeder was fished to 30m and again good catches of roach, skimmers and hybrids were recorded. The best weight of the day was recorded by Dick Caplice from Carrickmacross with 27lbs 1oz.
On the following day Sunday 16th October there was a competition between Lough Muckno CAC and South Armagh CAC at the Concra Wood Upper stretch on Lough Muckno. Fishing was difficult following the overnight drop in temperatures and water levels were still high and slightly coloured. A total of twenty anglers fished and the event was won by Philip Jackson from Lurgan with 21lbs. Second position went to Jim McAlastair from Armagh with 17lbs and third place went to Andy Chapman from Ballybay with 11lbs. Catches consisted of roach with small numbers of skimmers and hybrids. All fish caught on both days were in pristine condition and full of fight.
Shaun Hegarty reports a mixed week weather-wise at the Curragh Springs Fishery which led to variable fishing conditions. On some days the fish were near the surface taking daddy long legs, CDC, sedge and hares ear and on other days much deeper taking small lures, Cats Whisker, Montana and damsels. Wet flies and nymphs are still catching fish. Buzzers were also doing well all week although they need to be retrieved. Water clarity is excellent and all areas are fishing well. Brothers Patrick and J.P. Gibson had a good day recently at Curragh Springs, both catching some very fine hard fighting Rainbow.
Curragh Springs which is open 7 days from 9am until dark right through the winter so if you fancy a great days fishing at Curragh Springs please contact Shaun Hegarty at 087 2462028
The season for visiting groups of fishermen from overseas is drawing to a close and the last group we had at Courtmacsherry was a party of anglers from Boulogne sur mer in France. The weather was unsettled but we still managed to get out shark fishing and caught blues to 2.2m, the heaviest caught by Christian Chantry. We also had blue of 1.7m for Claude Friscourt and a blue of 2m for Dominic Grenier.
No Luck with the skate. We have found that you need calm to moderate conditions for skate fishing.
On the inshore reefs we had good sport using jellies and live bait with good pollack to 10lbs ,cod to 12lbs, medium coalfish and ling to 14lbs.
We managed to get to the wrecks on one occasion and had 30 ling to 15lbs, cod to 12lbs, conger to 30lbs.
Inshore we had a go at the bass with live sandeel and I landed 2 Bass to 5lbs but they were the only fish we saw in 4hrs of fishing.
A Dublin group fished on the Lady Louise last Sunday the 16th October. We started first on the inshore reefs were we caught plenty of mackerel,loads of joeys which we kept alive, good Pollack and coalfish. The wind was light SW so we decided to head off to a wreck some 20 miles out, hopefully for bigger fish. Using live bait on flowing traces and strips with jellies we caught pollack and cod to 9lbs, ling to 10lbs, haddock to 4lbs and conger to 15lbs.
Mark Gannon
Lady Patricia and the Lady Louise
Two Aquastar 38′. 370 HP
Base: Courtmacsherry
Operational Area: 30 miles out from Courtmacsherry
Address: Woodpoint Guest House, Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.
Telephone: +353 (0)23 8846427 or +353 (0)86 8250905
Email: [email protected] Web: www.courtmacsherryangling.ie
The first match in the above league took place at the weekend on the Roslea lakes. 30 anglers took part in the first match, which saw an average catch of almost 5kgs per angler. All lakes fished very well and we intend to return to the same venue for this weeks match.
Winner of round 1 was John Heys (Belturbet) with who won the top prize of £150 with 9.050kgs At Drumacritten Lake. Runnerup was Dave Slater (Enniskillen) on the same lake with 8.580kgs. Lyndon Read (Lisnaskea) on Inver Lake low numbers was third with 8.100kgs.
Catches were made up mostly of Roach caught on the Pole.
Other Section winners were.
Paul Leese (Cootehill) Lyons Lake 6.600kgs (included a Tench)
Neil Mazurek (Cootehill) Killyfole Lake 7.650kgs
John Potters (Lisbellaw) Killyfole Lake 7.540kgs.
It was good to see one of the clubs juniors fishing the match, well done Jordan. (more are most welcome)
Anyone intending to fish this week please book in by Thu at the shop 02866322008.
As only best 9 results count new anglers are most welcome to fish the league.
Jack Tisdale
Cloughballymill Angling Centre
Unit 3, Sligo Road, Enniskillen. BT74 7JY
Tel: +44 28 6632 2008
Web: www.cloughballymillanglingcentre.com Email: [email protected]
Leigh Maitland of CoarseandMatch.com organised a friendly knock up on the River Suck in Ballinasloe. Fishing was described as OK. Top 4 on the day were:
All fish caught were roach on the pole, using double red maggot on the hook, over groundbait and loose fed casters
Registration 09:15
Draw 09:30
Fish from 11:00-16:00
€20 Entry
Book on via text, email
0851071958
Belmullet Sea Angling Club held their annual Team Shore Angling Competition on Sunday, 16th October. Five teams weathered the extremely poor conditions, with strong south westerly winds and heavy rain showers at regular intervals.
Despite the poor conditions many participants enjoyed excellent sport throughout the day, with the winning team of Michael Dunleavy and Tony Lally, landing a total of seven varieties. Second place was won by Sylvy Sweeney and Kevin Walsh, who totalled 5 varieties, while third place was taken by Michael Varley and Padraic Forde, with 4 varieties. The captor of the heaviest fish of the day was Tony Lally, who landed a pollack of 4.8lbs.
Varieties caught included coalfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, conger eel, dogfish and flounder.
