Forty five anglers fished the annual Carrigallen Festival. Despite rising water levels good fishing was enjoyed by all.
The following is a list of the winners:-
What pleasant autumnal temperatures we have been having this past week. Hopefully it will continue for a little longer since anglers are still keen to use dry a lot of the time. Derry’s Maurice Whiteman banked thirteen in total using dries and a few suspender buzzers while Maghera’s Pearse Doherty released five which took his favourite fly. Young Daniel Reilly (Maghera) had a short day but nevertheless he banked two trout which took a wee black lure. Pearse Mc Gill (Lavey) used nymphs and buzzers to hook five good trout which he released back into the lake. Draperstown’s Damien Donnelly didn’t manage to get any trout to the bank.
Our annual competition will be held on Saturday the 29th October 2011. Please get in contact as soon as possible if interested in taking part as places are limited.
River Licences are on sale at Cashel Trout Fishery during Fishery opening hours.
We are taking group bookings for any angling club or corporate groups interested in a fun day. Catering facilities are available in the adjacent Cashel Fishing Lodge.
Info and enquiries to
Marlene
17 Birren Road,
Dungiven, BT47 4SH
Tel: Dungiven 028777 42159
email: [email protected], www.cashellakeview.co.uk
10 October: If Lough Sheelin was a runner you would describe it this week as giving a ‘finishing kick’.
The lake fished exceptionally well over the past number of days giving its anglers some good memories to tide them over the fast approaching winter months before the season opens again in March.
There was a lot of movement of trout providing anglers with plenty of sport but fish weren’t easily caught as our trout appear to have other things on their minds and would hook and jump and run, they were aggressive and not hungry probably due to the fact that we are now approaching spawning time and the Sheelin trout have perhaps rivers on their minds and so are restless and distracted.
Despite this there were some superb catches of beautiful wild trout the sight of which would captivate and uplift even the most cynical fisherman’s heart.
The Cavan/Monaghan Garda Divisional Fly Fishing Competition and Open Competition was held on the lake on Saturday October 8th and attracted 108 anglers with 19 fish being weighed in. Weather conditions were very suitable leading it to be the most successful year for this competition with a number of fish weighing in at 5lbs, 4lbs and 3lbs.
Dessie McEntee Cavan won the Garda section with his beautiful trout of 6lbs 13oz caught on a cock robin with the visitors section being won by Tony Graham, Dublin with a trout of almost 5lbs.
Other weights were Eamon McCormack, Dublin with a fish of over 4lbs, Danny Brady, Cavan with a trout of 4lbs 5ozs, Ronnie Law from Northern Ireland with a 4lbs 9oz trout and Jim Brannon, Dublin and Thomas Lynch, Cavan both with trout @ 3lbs 6ozs and 3lbs 14ozs.
On Sunday October 9th The Kells Anglers held a club competition on the lake, 16 anglers took part with 9 fish being caught. The winners of this competition were
The L.S.T.P.A will be running fly tying classes at Lough Sheelin starting in October for young anglers from 10 yrs upwards. Anyone interested should contact Thomas Lynch at 087 9132033 (after 6pm).
66 catches were recorded for the week.
Some returns are:
Brenda Montgomery
IFI Limerick
Lough Sheelin Stores
Email: [email protected]
The River Suck at Donamon was producing plenty of skimmer bream and roach to the few anglers who braved the blustery weather conditions and near flood water levels. Despite the unfavourable conditions anglers have reported that there are a lot of fish feeding in the system currently.
For further info contact John Ryan, IFI, at 087-253-6064.
Very good coarse fishing was enjoyed by most anglers at Lanesborough over the past nine days.
At a recent competition run by coarseandmatch.com Paddy Smullen bagged 28kg on the pole to win, this is the best bag from the venue we have had reported to us recently. Leigh Maitland from Ballyhaunis came 2nd with 22kg using the whip. Steve Thompkins, 3rd, had19kgs on the waggler.
Rudd, bream and hybrids to 3 lb have being making up the bulk of the catches and there are still plenty of tench to 5 lb about.
For further info contact John Ryan, IFI, at 087-253-6064.
Just a couple of pics to highlight the excellent fishing had by the Liberty Peche Fishing Club France who fished on one of the Bellavista self drive fleet in early October.
The anglers had super cod fish with a great fish of 1.25m long and weighing on the boat just under 25lbs. This massive cod was returned alive.
They had bass to 86cm (just under 11lbs) and all these fish returned.
Kevin Murphy.
Bella Vista
Cobh, Co. Cork
http://www.bellavistahotel.ie/
If you would like to avail of a day’s angling onboard one of the boats of the Bella Vista fleet why not contact Kevin at www.bassfishingireland.com
Foxford based angling guide Kenny Sloan reports recent success with clients while pike angling in the Foxford area. Dublin anglers Wayne Oldfield and Paul Dennis, joined Kenny for a fly-fishing trip, and were well rewarded for their efforts. With conditions overcast, mild and with a large wave, the pike were in feeding form. In total the pair boated 12 pike, the largest weighing in at approximately 14lbs, the rest averaging 8lbs. Large flies tied with Flashabou pearl, silver tinsel, red tinsel and white bucktail were the most productive.
For more information on guided pike angling in the Foxford area, please contact Kenny Sloan on +353 (0) 949256501, +353 (0)879670310 or visit the website www.pikemania.co.uk
The Cork Small Boats Festival was won by new comers O2B@C from Wales.
O2B@C leapfrogged the hardy annuals like team Skua, team Screeming Reels, and others on the last day in what had been a very close competition all week.
Despite the inclement weather (thick fog, gales and more) over 30 species of fish were caught. The winners had 25 species themselves and were followed by a number of boats on 24 species.
The beauty of hosting this event in Cork Harbour is that no matter what mother nature may throw at the competitors the confines of the Harbour itself allows shelter from nasty weather and still access to good fishing!
Full results can be viewed here: here
Report courtesy of the Cork Harbour Angling hub website
Heavy rain in the past week brought some better salmon fishing for anglers trying to catch that last fish of the season as nearly all salmon fisheries closed until 2012 on the 30th of September. The last river to close is the River Fane which remains open until the 12th of this month and the fishing there in the past week has been excellent with fish up 18 lb. recorded. There was very little salmon fishing reported from the Cork Blackwater due to low water levels. The rivers Coomhola and Ilen in west Cork fished well with some nice salmon up to 14.5 lb. reported. On Lough Currane there there were only a few salmon reported at the close of the season on the 3oth September. Good numbers of sea trout were reported last week and looks set to continue until the 12th of October. There were a few nice salmon recorded in the last week on the River Laune. The Connemara fisheries at Ballynahinch, Inagh, Kylemore, Delphi and Erriff all produced some nice fishing for the last week and most of these fisheries report their best season in years. The annual Owenmore River last cast competition raised over €1200 for charity. It was a quiet last week on the Moy but over 9,000 salmon were recorded on the rod for the season.
The trout angling season is over on all our rivers and most of our loughs except for the Midland Trout loughs finishing on the 12th of October. The annual Stream Rehabilitation competition was fished on Lough Sheelin and Jimmy Heneghan from Mayo won the 19 ft. Sheelin Boat with a fine trout of 5 lb. 5.4 oz. There was patchy fishing on Loughs Owel, Ennell and Lene due to the changeable weather. Ryan Binley won the Kieran Lynn Memorial Cup on Lough Conn.
More anglers are now turning their attention to Pike fishing at this time of year and catches in the past week have been very good. Pike up to 15 lb. 9 oz were recorded at the latest National Championship Qualifier held on the River Shannon at Castleconnell. There was some excellent pike fishing reported for a belgium group fishing with angling guide Kevin Lyons at Melview Lodge in Co. Longford with fish to over a metre recorded (over 20 lb.). Bad weather conditions for pike fishing on Lough Ree were quiet difficult at times for anglers but angler did record some nice fish. Up at the Oaks Fishery in Co. Derry, there was a lot of pike reported in the past week.
There is still a lot of coarse fishing going on around the country and there were reports of excellent bream catches taken by english anglers fishing at Portumna. Robert Howgate won the Sheemore Angling Festival at Carrick-on-Shannon. There was some wonderful catches of Roach, Hybrids and some bream for anglers fishing the annual Cootehill Festival which was won by a Dutch angler. A Belgium party had very good Roach, Hybrids adn bream fishing staying at Melview Lodge in Co. Longford. There was a qualifier for the Irish team held on the Newry Canal last weekend and many anglers are in the hunt for a place on the Irish National Team going into the last round.
The blustery weather conditions made it a difficult week at times for sea anglers but there was some excellent fish recorded around the coast. Pride of place goes to Krzysztof Knopp a regular visitor from Poland who landed a great 16.5 lb. bass at Courtmacsherry. This fish is our Catch of the Week and is the biggest bass recorded since the present record of 17 lb. 13 oz. record fish recorded way back in the year 2000. It is also the forth biggest bass ever reported to the Irish Specimen Fish Committee. The same angler also had some superb deep sea angling with charter skipper Mark Gannon recording a fine skate of 175 lb. in the same week! French anglers had some fine bass fishing in Cork Harbour fishing with angling guide Richie Ryan. Up in Clifden there was some excellent cod and pollack fishing for anglers fishing with charter skipper John Brittain. A great range of species were recorded by a group of anglers fishing with charter skipper Donal Kennedy in Killala Bay. The shark fishing is finished for another year up in Red Bay in Co. Antrim but anglers enjoyed catching some wonderful cod, conger, skate and more species fishing with charter skipper Hamish Currie.
Tight lines especially in Ireland,
Paul Bourke
Angling Information Officer
Frenchman Jean Luc Alzas with a fine bass caught with Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan. In fact , Jean Luc caught 5 bass on the day and remarkably caught 3 in 3 casts at one particular spot ! Strangely all the bass were the same size and were returned safely to spawn.
Saltwater fly fishing Guide.
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