See attached a photo of a low double Pike, caught on Lough Glore on Wednesday. The fish was in great condition and put up a good fight. It was caught on the troll after a hard days fishing and we were over the moon when we saw the rod bend.
Anthony Greene
Scouting Ireland
All anglers are reminded that eel fishing is closed as a conservation measure. Any eels caught while out fishing must be safely returned alive.
Bye-law No C.S. 303, 2009 prohibits fishing for eel, or possessing or selling eel caught in a Fishery District in the State until June 2012.
The weather was very blustery and the start of the week saw the remnants of the hurricane Katia hit the Irish coast as well but Irish anglers still carried on fishing in most instances. There was low water conditions on many salmon fisheries over the past week but there was some notable fishing. The Blackwater Lodge reported the best day’s fishing on their beats. Despite the wind there were some notable catches on Lough Currane where famous flytier, Ally Gowans caught four grilse in a day and a sea trout of 3 lb. on fly. Most rivers in the Cork Kerry area fished well including the River Laune where there was some fine fish recorded. Over in Connemara, the hundred salmon of the year was recorded on Lough Inagh and anglers had some excellent fishing at Ballynahinch, Delphi and the Erriff. Catches on the River Moy are a little slower this year but 334 fish were still reported for the week with most of the fish recorded in the upper stretches of the river.
Trout anglers were well rewarded this week on Lough Sheelin with some lovely fish reported including several fish over five pounds. There was a good improvement in the trout fishing in the west with better fishing from Corrib, Mask, Carra and Conn.
There are a lot of English visitors over in Ireland enjoying excellent catches of coarse fish particularly at the many fishing festivals being held. Inniscarra Lake has had quite a few lately and there were superb fishing for bream, rudd and hybrids recorded at the competitions. The Arvagh Festival attracted 80 anglers and they over 2.7 tonnes of roach, bream and hybrids fishing venues on Lough Gowna, Gulladoo, Rockfield and Glasshouse Loughs.
There are two major Pike festivals coming up now. Next week the annual European Pike Challenge will take place on Lough Derg at Killaloe and the following weekend a new two day shore competition takes place in Ballinasloe and the venue is the River Suck where many competitors will try the catch the huge fish that live in that river.
The windy weather did curtail sea angling a bit last week but Bill Ryan in clare and his friend Jim O’Malley caught some lovely specimen wrasse from the rocks in clare and Jim won catch of the week with a nice fish of 5 lb. 4 oz. The annual skate festival is only a week away which is held in Westport and there are still a few places left for anglers to try their luck in catching a big skate. Up in Sligo shore anglers caught fish in the west coast league from Streedagh Beach in Co. Sligo in harsh conditions. Another big Porbeagle Shark was recorded by a dutch angler fishing off red bay with charter skipper Hamish Currie.
Paul Bourke
Angling Information Officer.
Catch, Photo, Release.
email: [email protected]
Just a quick note to remind anglers that The Helm Skate Festival takes place 1st and 2nd of October. There are still some places available also as part of the event we are also running a Shore Competition in conjunction with Shore Thing angling shop
Kind regards
Vinny
The Helm
Westport
Tel: 098 26398 or by through the website at www.helm.ie
Just a reminder about the upcoming Ballinasloe competition that will be taking place on the 24th and 25th of September. I’m sure that all club secretaries have gotten flyers in the post about this one, so if they could make all of their club members aware of this it would be great.
Check-in will be from 9.30am on Saturday morning at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel & C Spa
We will also be checking scales, federation rules will apply.
Entry fee is €50 this includes pools.
This competition is a heaviest bag competition, much like a fed competition, there will also be prizes for heaviest fish.
More information on www.angling-in-ireland.com or contact Godfrey Donahoe at 087 2650495 or Rory McAllorum at 087 6849748 for more details on this great competition.
Porbeagle shark are still top of my hit list at the moment. The dutch lads like to target them as well as most of them have fished for blue sharks in the past. Everyone agrees that these are a completely different animals. I believe that I have found the best sharking grounds in the these islands – I can target them at 3 different locations. This shark from Rene from Holland is no.31 this season, again it was taken on a very deep drop off along with the usual suspects conger, ling, coalfish, pollack and spurdogs. Bait this time was live coalfish.
Hamish Currie
Predator II
Red Bay Stormforce 9.1 Rib
Web: www.predatorireland.com Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 028 2177 1828 Boat: 07720440117
Gerard Mc Partlan was fishing in Inniscara (beside garden centre) on Saturday 10 Septmber, and bagged a nice 3.5 lb tench by accident. he was fishing the feeder and tried a boilie to get some big bream but also got a tench. Gerard reports that the stretch has been quite good for the last few months. He had caught lots of roach, some over 1.3lb, but started coming on the bream by crushing boilies and sweetcorn into his groundbait. He also changed his bait from mixed maggots to worms and boilies towards the second half of the day. Gerard up with a bag of about 35lb ( best bream was over 3lb) so catching the Tench was a great ending to the day.
The Erne Anglers Angling Club will again be organising the above Individual Float Only Winter League. Last years league was very successful with 45 Anglers taking part and 7,000euro in prize money paid out. The league is organised on venues that are suitable to Float fishing and based in the Cavan/Fermanagh border area. Results are calculated on section points, with the top 18 anglers fishing the final. All entry/pools are paid out 100% over the league. Best 9 out of 13 matches count (if weather conditions forces a cancellation then best 8 of 12)
Club League organisers are asked not to clash with the dates selected.
Fixture list and last year’s results are below.
If you intend to fish please e mail or phone me to book in. If there is sufficient interest we may also run a junior section within the league (juniors do not pay pools).
Jack
(0044) 7813333694
E-mail: [email protected]
ERNE ANGLERS
FLOAT ONLY & BILL CLARKE
WINTER LEAGUE 2011/12
13 MATCHES BEST 9 TO COUNT
(TOP 18 ANGLERS QUALIFY FOR BILL CLARKE FINAL)
RESULTS BASED ON SECTION POINTS
VENUES
ROSLEA LAKES, BALLYCONNELL/BOYLE CANAL AND FINN RIVER
ENTRY
£10 REG FEE PAID OUT 100% IN FINAL
LEAGUE SPONSORSHIP BY CLUB £450
POOLS
£20/25euro
DATES
SUN 16 OCT 11
SUN 23 OCT 11
SUN 06 NOV 11
SUN 20 NOV 11
SUN 04 DEC 11
SUN 18 DEC 11
SUN 08 JAN 12
SUN 22 JAN 12
SUN 05 FEB 12
SUN 19 FEB 12
SUN 04 MAR 12
SUN 18 MAR 12
SUN 25 MAR 12
SAT 31 MAR 12
SUN 01 APR 12
DRAW 8.45AM FISH 11.00 – 4.00PM
OPEN TO CLUB MEMBERS ONLY (£15)
Unit 3, Sligo Road, Enniskillen. BT74 7JY
Tel: +44 28 6632 2008
Neil Mallinson UK won the Arvagh Festival with 57.830 Kilos of mainly roach, hybrids and bream with 80 anglers taking part in this popular festival. Venues were Nigel’s shore and Rosduff on Lough Gowna, Glasshouse Lake, Gulladoo steps and Gulladoo Cross and Rockfield Lough. Bob Browne came a close second with 57.130 Kilos and Nigel Franks was third with 57.060 Kilos. Many of these venues are being used for this week’s annual King of Clubs competition.
Alice Murtagh
Inland Fisheries Ireland – Corlesmore Office, Arva, Co. Cavan
[email protected]
Tel: +353 (0)49 4337174
Coarse Angling Report from MIKE RISDON
A series of matches is taking place on Inniscarra Lake at present and the results of three of them are as follows.
Guinness Cup 23 fished.
1st. Charlie Greaves. 24 kgs. – 200 gms.
2nd. Ricky Grover. 18 – 500.
3rd. Pawel Swistun. 16 – 800.
4th. Duncan Lennox. 16 – 500.
5th. Tommy Lawton. 16 – 400.
Lennox Cup 22 fished.
Day 1.
1st. Peter Koopman, Holland. 27-400.
2nd. Peter Bos, Holland. 24-900.
3rd. Ronnie Goldwater, UK. 21-600.
Day 2.
1st. Kevin Gray, UK. 26-500.
2nd. Charlie Greaves, Ireland. 24-700.
3rd. Dale Malpas, UK. 23-800.
Day 3.
1st . Dale Malpas. 29-000.
2nd . Peter Jones, Ireland. 26-200.
3rd . Charlie Greaves. 25-900.
Overall.
1st. Charlie Greaves. 68-600.
2nd . Dale Malpas. 63-300.
3rd. Peter Koopman. 59-600.
4th. Peter Jones. 56-800.
J5th. Peter Bos. 55-900.
J5th. Rene Exter, Holland. 55-900.
Pete Ottewill Trophy 39 fished.
Day 1.
1st. Charlie Greaves. 34-600.
2nd. Graham Jones, UK. 33-250.
3rd. Trevor Lovell, UK. 31-200.
Day2.
1st. Les Braunton, UK. 29-800.
2nd. Charlie Greaves. 28-500.
3rd. Steve Thorpe, UK. 22-200.
Day 3.
1st. Dave Carter, UK. 28-500.
2nd. Dave Pearson, UK. 25-600.
3rd. Paul McCaul, Ireland. 24-450.
Overall.
1st. Charlie Greaves. 86-500.
2nd. Graham Jones. 64-800.
3rd. Trevor Lovell. 62-000.
4th. Paul McCaul. 61-850.
5th. Peter Jones. 58-900.
More match results next week.
Pleasure anglers have also been enjoying good sport on the River Lee system.
Father and son, Phil and Dan Marsh had six good days on Inniscarra Lake. Phil caught a total of 333 lb. of roach, bream, hybrids, rudd and perch and Dan caught a total of 340 lb., both of them using feeder method and maggots throughout. Phil’s best day was 84 lb. while Dan fell just short of the ton with 98 ½ lb.
Derrick Thompson from Leeds had a good day on Carrigadrohid Lake with a catch of 42 hybrids averaging around 3 lb. plus many roach up to about a pound for a total weight estimated at around 140 lb. These were caught using open end feeder and maggots with casters in the feed.
