FISHERMEN may be associated with tall tales and ‘the one that got away’ but a group of local anglers have decided to hail the men who landed the big one in Kilkenny over the years.
The Kilkenny City and County Anglers’ Club will launch a new book this weekend. Their work, The History of the Nore Salmon Anglers ‘Hall of Fame’ has compiled the list of anglers who landed the heaviest salmon on the River Nore. The book will be officially launched in the Club House Hotel, Patrick Street at 8pm on Saturday…… The Kilkenny People…..24/05/12….read full article…
LOUGH MELVIN – Monday 14th to Sunday 20th May 2012.
The cold conditions continued this week with temperatures struggling to rise above 10°C until Sunday when temperatures rose by a few more degrees. It was once again decidedly cold for those rods who ventured out on the Lough! The trout fishing seemed to improve somewhat chatting to the few rods that ventured out. There were a number of salmon recorded for the week all as the salmon fishing picked up. Tuesday was a good day when the salmon just seemed to ‘switch on’. Raymond Dundaff recorded a 9lb salmon caught trolling at Garrison. Robbie Hare accounted for another salmon of 9lb caught trolling and Niall Sweeney had a good day recording 3 fine salmon caught trolling. The fish weighed 8, 11 & 14lb.
On Wednesday Noel Johnston accounted for another salmon of 8½lb caught trolling. On Sunday, in the Rossinver Fishery, Melvin Schofield logged a 7lb 4oz salmon caught trolling from Harte’s Point and Rodney Benson had a good day recording 2 salmon caught trolling between the County River & Ward’s Point. The fish weighed 9lb 6oz & 4lb 8oz and were sportingly released again.
The river ran at fair levels this week with the gauge at the Four Masters Bridge reading 0.54 metres at the beginning of the week and still reading just over 0.5 metres by the end of the week. Air temperatures however, were still very cold for the time of year. This was a good week on the fishery with numerous salmon caught over the week.
On Monday, Sebastion Buchs recorded a 6lb salmon caught on a Rapala lure from the Blackwater and Roland Bonnisch logged a 6lb fish caught on a fly from The Terrace. On Tuesday, Brian Hazelton registered a 9½lb salmon caught on a fly from the Upper Mill Pool. On Wednesday, Patrick O’Malley accounted for a 6lb salmon caught on prawn from the Black Hole. On Thursday, Damien O’Hare recorded a 5lb grilse caught on shrimp from the Sea Pools and we await details of Paul McCausland’s salmon.
On Friday, John O’Neill logged 2 salmon caught on a Cascade fly. These weighed 6½ & 4lb and were caught in Briney’s & The Washstones respectively. Pauric Thornton registered a 9lb salmon caught on a spinner from The Washstones. On Saturday, Colin Kenny accounted for 2 salmon caught on a Cascade fly. These weighed 7 & 4lb and were both caught from the Blackwater. Billy Gilbert recorded a 4lb grilse caught on a Cascade fly from the Black Hole. On Sunday, Terry Hennerbry logged a 4lb grilse caught on a fly from Lennox’s and Vincent Brunton registered a 4½lb grilse caught on prawn from Rooney’s Turn
The forecast for temperatures to rise to the low to mid 20’s which will make angling a little more pleasurable and prospects look good for the coming week
Warmer weather returned to Ireland in the last few days, an event which passed by many along the south coast where dull conditions persisted. The warm mostly settled weather saw many anglers race to the nearest bit of water they could find. The warmth meant a real chance of a good fall of gnat for trout anglers and water levels made for good salmon fishing at a number of rivers. Coarse anglers particularly those with a preference to tench also enjoyed the warm weather. At sea boat anglers from the east, south and west coasts had good fishing with a great mix of species encountered.
Ksenia with a fine BullHuss. This fish wins Ksenia Catch of the Week
The shoals of spawning roach at Shrule had dispersed though for now it is not clear whether it was a short run this year or will there be more to follow. Fishing in and around Longford has been very good the last few weeks with some great catches of Tench to 55 cm long. Bream, hybrids, roach and rudd have also featured. The weather has changed things a little for the bream, hybrids and roach fishing, with hot bright sun the fish in some places are sure to start spawning here. However the tench are still showing in most places and fish to 6lb are being caught.
Esox Lodge in Belturbet enjoyed some good pike fishing over the last two weeks, much to the delight of their French, Italian and Belgium guests. A lot of jacks were caught but they also had good double figure fish, with the best being 99cm. Rory McAllorum of the Dublin Pike Anglers Club is the new Kingspan National Pike Champion which was fished recently on the River Shannon. He covered many miles of water and ended up with a catch of 12 pike for 58lb 3oz. This included 2 doubles of 13lb 3oz and 11lb 11oz.
Angling on the River Moy continues to improve, with low water conditions beginning to suit the lower Moy Fisheries, which are now yielding bigger numbers of fish. The East Mayo Anglers’ water and the Cloongee Fishery, continue to record the greatest numbers, partly due to the fact that the heaviest angling effort is occurring there. The Ballisodare Fishery enjoyed another excellent week, with one hundred and eleven salmon caught, fifty-one of which were released. Six salmon were caught for the week on the Newport House side of Lough Beltra. The Erriff Fishery produced a couple of spring fish over the last week, with John price from the Wirral in England landing a fine 10.75lbs sea-liced springer on Beat 9. Good numbers of spring salmon are running the river in Galway now, and with low water conditions fly anglers are enjoying good sport, as well as shrimp fishers. At Delphi fishing has picked up following some light rain and some good salmon to 14lb were caught. Down in the south west there was some good salmon and sea trout fishing on Lough Currane.
Congratulations to the Irish Fly Fishing Team which took the Gold in the 2012 International Fly Fishing Competition fishing on Lough Sheelin last week. The lake is fishing well in every area and catches of 4, 5 and 6lb fish were recorded. Most anglers are dry fly fishing mainly with the green mayfly. The buzzer fishing was good in the bog bay area. Ronan Cusack reports that the rise in temperatures this week has reflected in a slight improvement in mayfly hatches. Anglers fishing the southern end of Mask in particular reported seeing plenty of fly on the warmer days and trout responding well. Andrew Ryan, Clonanav Fly Fishing reports that the hawthorn fly has arrived, at last, on the River Suir and that the warmer weather will improve the dry fly fishing. The Rivers Boyne and Fane have been fishing well of late especially in the evenings with some very nice hatches of sedge and some good falls of spinners.
Bass anglers are well aware that the closed season is in force at the moment, but for everyone else fishing the seashore for the next few weeks please remember that any bass caught between 15 May and 15 June must be released unharmed. Mullet on fly can be a good alternative as anglers with John Quinlan at Cahersiveen found. Skipper of the Leah, Donal Kennedy reports from Killala Bay that fishing has been slow but steady with plenty of mackerel, pollack to 8lbs and mix of other fish including turbot. On the east coast Kit Dunne reprots that anglers fishing with him had a real dog day. All in all the group caught and released 6 bullhuss, 3 smooth-hounds, 2 ray and over 100 dogfish. But the best fishing was in the last 90 minutes when 7 tope were caught. A team of Dutch predator specialists fishing with the Bellavista fleet in Cobh had great fishing with cod and pollack up to 90cm as well as small ling, grey gurnads and pouting all on soft plastics. Anglers on the JohnBoy also out of Cobh had similar fishing but added conger to their list of species caught.
Weather-wise, the warm, dry conditions will continue on Saturday with highest temperatures of 19 to 23 C expected. Along southern and eastern coastal fringes it will be a few degrees cooler as easterly winds become moderate to locally fresh. There will be a good deal of fine weather for the next couple of days with a chance of rain in parts of the south and southwest and temperatures will begin to fall back to more seasonable values. There will be light rain in parts of the south and southwest on Monday and Tuesday, but for the rest of the country the fine weather will continue. Winds will be moderate to fresh and from the southwest. The middle of next week looks like being somewhat changeable with temperatures around the average for the time of the year.
Tight lines to all,
Paul Bourke
Angling Information Officer. Catch, Photo, Release
The annual All Ireland Trout Angling Match for anglers with special needs run by the Friends of Loch An Dochais takes place at Loch An Dochais, Kilcormac on Sunday May 27.
This is the sixteenth year of this competition and the lake now has the capacity of 43 angling spaces with ample car parking available.
Anglers will be competing for the Mary Robinson Perpetual Trophy and other prizes…..Offaly Express…..24/05/12 …….read full article…
Its not often a sandeel is considered a worthy catch, but on a day when only baby whiting were caught it was a welcome change
Billy Demery, and east coast angler, reports on a recent kayak fishing trip from Killiney…
Today we were in the mood for a bit of fishing off a kayak for pollack or mackerel on a feather rig. We had no luck with mackerel or pollack but there was no end to the small whiting which just kept taking and taking (and taking and taking and taking). Having no use for these tiny fish they were released on the spot and despite constantly moving the boat in search of pollack we could never escape the vast shoals of whiting which were so widespread. These tiddlers were so small we didn’t take any photos and when we eventually we got a different species (sandeel) it felt like a real achievement. Hopefully we’ll see the fishing pick up with this warmer weather.
Its not often a sandeel is considered a worthy catch, but on a day when only baby whiting were caught it was a welcome change
On a recent clean up by the NCFFI clubs Shermore and Leitrim Youths Coarse Fishing Club on the rocks on Lough Scur a lot of rubbish was collected. Leitrim County Council have erected no dumping sings in this area and all anglers should make sure they play their part in keeping this venue tidy.
Also on Lough Scur a small plaque was put up by Roy Craigton in memory of Tommy Shuttlewood from Barton Cheshire, UK, who loved fishing the rocks on Scur.
Tommy was completely blind but could still manage to catch fish even when his mates Chomper and Swampy couldn’t and though his chuckles of laughter will never be heard on Lough Scur again he will be remembered by all who see his plaque while fishing.
15/5/12 There was a light to fresh NNE wind, but at least some boats did see some action, in the Salmon department all the honors go to Mr. Tommy Duggan and his Grandson Mr. Tom Nugent and for good reason Tommy caught a fine Salmon on the troll first thing this morning and his
Grandson Tom, finished the day off perfectly with a Salmon on the fly in Copal on the Southside, fishing with their Gillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy and of www.fishingwithdom.com
Now we head for the Sea trout department, Mr. John Nolan of Dublin fishing with his Gillie Mr. John Young, and fishing out of www.butlerarms.com caught a nice 2.5lbs Sea Trout on the drift on a Clan chief and staying with the Sea Trout a Dutch Party caught a 2lbs Sea trout on the fly fishing with their Gillie Mr. Frank Donnelly of www.Lakelandshouse.com
And to the C&R department and catch of the day and that goes to Mr. Clive McDonald of the UK who caught a specimen Sea Trout of 6.5lbs which Clive sportingly put back, Clive was fishing in a hired out boat fromwww.lakelandshouse.com Wind as already stated with light showers at times.
16/5/12 I will start in the sea trout department, renowned Artist Mr. Harry Feeney caught a fine 4lbs Sea Trout on the fly with his Gillie Mr. Vincent O’Sullivan and of www.vincentsfishing.com
A lovely 4lbs sea trout for Harry Feeney
Staying with the Sea Trout the majority anglers reported plenty of quality good rises but no takers.
Now to the Salmon department, Mr. William Timmermans of Holland and a regular Angler to Waterville and fishing out of www.oshealoughcurrane.com caught a fine 5lbs Grilse on the troll wind S then veered SW light and overcast. 17/5/12 Dutch fly Anglers fishing with their Gillie Mr. Frank Donnelly and of www.lakelandshouse.com caught 2 fine Sea Trout ranging from 2lbs up to 3lbs and in the hired out boat department of www.lakelandshouse.com Mr. Steven Savage of Co down caught a fine 4 3/4lbs Sea Trout on the drift also in good for was Mr. Ian Matchett also from Co Down, caught a 3.5 lbs Sea trout on the drift. Now we cut across the lake to the north side, Mr. William Timmermans and his good friend caught a 5lbs Sea Trout on the drift. Wind light and was all over the place and overcast.
18/5/12 There was good action in the Salmon department Mr. Alexander Schwab of Switzerland of www.mushrooming.co.uk caught a fine 9.5lbs Salmon on the fly, Alexander was fishing with his Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of Waterville boats and @ [email protected] and in the Hired out boat department of Waterville Boats and @ [email protected] Mr. Andrew Wishart of Co Down, caught a fine 9.5lbs Salmon on the troll and staying in the trolling department, Mr. Tham Hitmiangsong caught a 8lbs Salmon on the troll this evening.
Now to the Sea Trout department, and in the words of Mr. Frank Donnelly there were nice conditions out their but very cold out there, so you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out the Sea Trout quota but saying that Local Gillie Mr. Mike O’Dwyer caught a 2.5lbs Sea Trout on the troll. Wind NE light with light drizzle throughout the day.
19/5/12 All the head line go to Dutch Angler Mr. Welten, fishing with his Gillie Mr. Frank Donnelly and of www.lakelandshouse.com caught two fine Salmon on the troll, ranging from 7lbs up to 10lbs and staying in the Salmon department a Guest a lost a Salmon fishing with his Gillie Mr. Tom O’Shea and @ [email protected]
In the Sea trout Department again my Noble Sea Trout were taken short and a good few anglers were commenting on this, as was Mr. Collins of Cork who was telling me that he and his party rose a good few Sea Trout and bent his fly rod into a Sea Trout in the 5 to 6 lbs class but that was his ration, Mr. Collins was fishing in a hired out boat from www.lakelandshouse.com Wind NE light and overcast.
20/5/12 Straight to the Salmon department and first in the striking Zone was Mr. Martin Clancy of Cork, who caught a fine Salmon on the troll on the south side in Kelly’s Bog with his friends, and I can tell you when Martin netted their Salmon there was all mighty raw and going by the raw they were rugby supporters or in this case my Noble Gentlemen supporters and on that note we head to the North side Where Local Gillie Mr. Donal O’Shea and of www.curranelodge.com caught a fine 6.5lbs Salmon on the Troll, and staying in the Salmon department Mr. Tham Hitmiangsong was in good form again in the trolling department with a 8lbs Salmon, now to the Sea Trout department, Enericko caught a 2.5lbs Sea Trout on the Fly with his Gillie Mr. Neil O’Shea and of www.oshealoughcurrane.com
Also in good form was Mr. Marcel Guilliou of Scarborough of the UK who caught a fine 2.5lbs Sea Trout on the fly, fishing with his Gillie Mr. Vincent O’Sullivan and of www.vincentsfishing.com staying with the Sea trout, Mr. William Timmermans of Waterville and Holland had one Sea trout to his rod, in the hired out boat department of Waterville Boats, Mr. Andrew Wishart c caught a 2.5lbs Sea Trout on the troll, in Sea Trout trolling department Mr. Welten of Holland caught a 3.5lbs Sea trout on the troll with his Gillie Mr. Frank Donnelly and of www.lakelandshouse.com and just for the record Mr. Neil O’Shea of www.oshealoughcurrane.com reported the there were one or two boats seen catching my Noble Sea Trout. Wind SW Light bright in the morning and overcast in the afternoon.
21/5/12 There was some fine Salmon caught on Lough Currane today, I will start in the fly department, Mr. Sean Smith fishing with his Gillie Mr. Neil O’Shea and of www.oshealoughcurrane.com caught a 10.5lbs Salmon drifting by the point of Green island and Sean’s Father, Michael was telling that he had a good fight out of my Noble Salmon, and Sean finished day off with a C&R Sea Trout in the 3lbs class. Now to the trolling department and catch of the day and goes to Mr. Andrew Wishart of Co Down, who caught two Salmon ranging from 7.5lbs up to 9lbs. Now to the Sea trout department Mr. John Foxton of Co Wicklow caught a fine 3lbs Sea Trout on the Fly fishing with his Gillie Mr. Tom O’Shea and @ [email protected] now we cut across to the south side and the hired out boat department of www.lakelandshouse.com Mr. Welten caught a 2lbs Brown Trout on the troll and there was also another angler fishing on his own caught a Sea trout in the 2lbs class and just for the record there were a few boats manipulating there flies and there catches haven’t bean recorded so I would ask if you do have a catch could you please text me on 0872074882 with your catches how ever small. Wind SSW fresh and overcast. That is your ration for this week, from your Gillie/Guide and the Waterville fishery.
The Shannon was the venue for the Final of the 2011/12 Kingspan National Pike Championships. Fifty four anglers took part catching 288 pike to 15lbs. The one angler who couldnt make it was Mickey Doherty who is in hospital recovering from an operation. The Finalists were the top 5 anglers from each of 11 independent qualifying competitions.
Rory McAllorum of the Dublin Pike Anglers Club is the new Kingspan National Pike Champion. He fished hard covering many miles of water and ended up with a mighty catch of 12 pike for 58-03. This included 2 doubles of 13-03 and 11-11.
His fishing partner Godfrey Donohue, also of the Dublin Pike Anglers Club, came in second with 18 pike for 44-07
Derek Mohan came in third with 15 pike for 37-09.
4th John Sheenan 14 pike 36-10
5th Willie Heasley 12 pike 36-04
6th Frank Leonard 14 pike 35-00
7th Jody Kiernan 14 pike 33-15
8th Sean Markey 9 pike 28-01
9th George Dillon 7 pike 27-08
10th Joe Coleman 14 pike 22-05
The top 10 will represent Ireland in the International Challenge match against Great Britain which will be held on the 6th and 7th October in County Monaghan. Ibar Condron managed to come in 11th and is first reserve.
Several doubles were caught the best being 15 lbs caught by Ray Keyes.
78 attended the presentation dinner in the Carlton Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe. Guests included Ballinasloe`s Deputy Mayor Councillor Pat O`Sullivan and retired fisheries officers John Ryan and John Killilea.
Marlene McLaughlin from Cashel Lake View in the Sperrin mountains reports that despite the cooler temperatures anglers are still keen to give it a throw at Cashel. Using assorted dries, nymphs and buzzers some anglers did manage to make the connection with the cute rainbows. Sean Mc Williams (Park) used bloodworms and daddies to bank four while Derry’s Pat Nicell used the peter ross to bank two. Dungiven’s John Hasson and Martin Bradley spent an afternoon using f-flies and black buzzers to bank seven and three trout respectively.
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