North Tipperary Angling Centre rainbows fighting fit

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May 11, 2012

Peter Gleeson took a break from pursuing brown trout on Lough Derg to reprt on this pristine 16-acre lake at Ballinderry, North Tipperary, is renowned for it full-finned, hard fighting rainbow trout.

There is some excellent top-of-the-water action on the lake at present, with anglers reporting catches of over-wintered fish in the 3lbs to 4lbs range.

Fish are not only coming to the dry fly, according to the proprietor Pat Stack. Anglers fishing with buzzers on fast sinking lines are also catching plenty of trout.

The over-wintered trout in the lake are as natural looking and as hard fighting as those found in the wild and feed only on what the lake’s eco-system has to offer.

Pat says the lake, located in a splendid pastoral setting, is the perfect venue for anglers looking for a bit of action when the Mayfly season finishes, or indeed at any time. You can contact Pat on 087-2756775.
Peter Gleeson

Derg trout on Gnats but not many spent on the lake

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myleskelly

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May 11, 2012

Peter Gleeson reports that trout angling on Lough Derg this Mayfly season has so far been an improvement on some previous years, according to anglers.

Hatches of mayfly have been good despite the below average temperatures and fishers willing to spend a lot of time on the lake are getting reasonable catches.

One lucky angler had a trout of over 6lbs while fishing in the Castlelough area on Wednesday May 9^th and another had one of over 5lbs on the wulff at the back of Hare Island a few days earlier. Anglers are also heartened over the appearance of good stocks of small fish in some parts of the lake, as they had been noticeably absent in recent years.

The cold weather has so far ruled out good falls of spent gnat, but anglers are getting fish on these flies despite their noticeable absence. The view of most anglers on Derg is that trout far prefer the gnat to the green fly and will take it even when there are none to be seen.
Peter Gleeson

118 pike for Belgium anglers at Trinity Island, Cavan

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myleskelly

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May 11, 2012

Three Belgium anglers staying in Trinity Island Lodge report very good pike angling. They caught 118 pike over four days, the biggest pike recorded on Lisney at 1.2m.

Other Belgium and French anglers staying in the Killeshandra area report good pike angling.

Bream and tench to 6lb and bags of over a ton reported from Arvagh, Gowna, Inishmuch

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myleskelly

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May 11, 2012

Some anglers from Bolton fishing Inishmuch report good catches of bream up to 6lb and good mixed bags of fish including tench.

A party of six from Scumthorpe were fishing Kevin’s Shore on Lough Gowna and bagged good mixed bags including skimmer bream and small roach.

Mr. L Knott from Manchester who was fishing the Arva area reported 107lb of fish in one day including 26 Tench, 8 Bream and other small fish, also Mr. Broadhurst bagged 82lb of fish including 20 Tench. Cullies lake is producing good Tench up to 6lb and plenty of good hybrids.

Good coarse fishing reported from Co. Leitrim.

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Paul Bourke

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May 11, 2012

Brian Bohan with a lovely catch of Tench — Brian Bohan with a super catch of good Tench

Brian Bohan from Cha Flynn Cottages in Co. Leitrim reports on some recent fishing in the nearby loughs

Roy Gretton is enjoying a few weeks over here in Ireland doing a bit of pike fishing and has had some success with a number of pike every day but a lass no big ones but he is quit happy with his catches he will be trying for some tench this week so we will see how he gets on another nice net of tench for my self on lough rynn started fishing at about 6am on my drennan medium feeder road in about 8 feet of water on a pre baited swim took a little while for the tench to move in but when they did the bits got better and better tree maggots on a size 18 hook seemed to do the trick relay enjoyed my first morning session of the year

Roy Gretton with pike — Roy Gretton with a nice pike in Co. Leitrim

Web: http://www.chaflynns-cottage.com/

Brian Bohan

Cha Flynn’s Cottage
Mohill
Carrick-on-Shannon
Co. Leitrim
Ireland

P: 353 7196 31870
M: 353 87 4124851

Big specimen bream reported in big catches recorded in the Upper Shannon area.

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Paul Bourke

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May 11, 2012

mud island may 7th 2012 (3) — Big specimen bream

Bryan Ward reports on a recent coarse fish report in the Mayo – Upper Shannon area.

Chris Ganley and Markus Kirwan both members of Ballyhaunis and district angling club, weighed in bags of specimen bream when fishing one of the many islands on the upper Shannon over the weekend. They both managed to weigh in bags exceeding 150 lb. which were emptied several times due to the large fish they encountered. Their plan was to fish Saturday evening to Monday evening but with bad weather forecast for early Sunday morning they cut their visit short. Prebaiting the swims a couple of days prior to fishing them was the key and when the fish moved in after 3 to 4 hours of setting up they were held for 3 hours at a time and were all averaging 8 lb. biggest fish was 9 lb 2 oz. baits used were sweetcorn, maggots and worm.

mud island may 7th 2012 (8) — Another big specimen bream from the Upper Shannon

French anglers enjoy good pike fishing on Lough Corrib

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Paul Bourke

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May 11, 2012

Nice Pike from Lough Corrib — A nice pike over a metre for a french visitor on Lough Corrib

Michael Canney reports on pike fishing for his clients at Portarra Lodge on Lough Corrib.

Last week saw the start of the Pike fishing at Portarra Lodge. Two French anglers came here to try and get their dream fish – a pike of 100 cm. They were on a short visit of four days and boated 12 pike for their three days on the lake. Ten of the 12 pike were in the double figures with the best fish just over the Meter and weighting 18.25 lb. Ant one of those 10 pike would have been a personal best for both anglers and they were very happy that Lough Corrib fulfilled their dreams They, with two other angling friends, will pay a return visit in August/September of this year. They had a wonderful camera and are going to compile a short film of their Piking experience and put it on Facebook – this should ensure an increase in the Pike anglers coming to Corrib from France. Photo shows Alexandre Pilon With his Meter plus Pike.

PS. I have it from very reliable information sources that recently (in the past two months at most) two Pike of 37.5 lb. and 24.5 lb. were caught on the Fly pretty close to Portarra Lodge. Both fish were released back into the lake.

Michael Canney
Portarra Lodge, Tullykyne
Moycullen, County Galway
Tel:+353 (0)91-555051
Fax:+353 (0)91-555052
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.portarralodge.com

Super coarse fishing catches at two recent small festivals on Inniscarra Lake in Co. Cork.

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Paul Bourke

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May 11, 2012

There were two three-day festivals held on Inniscarra Lake last week hosted by O’Callaghan’s Bar in Coachford and the results were:-

Ottewill Trophy 21 fished.

Overall.

1^st. Charlie Greaves, Lietrim. 49 kgs 900gms.

2^nd. Shane Dunne, Roscommon, 49-200.

3^rd. Rory Dunne, Roscommon. 45-900.

4^th. Trevor Platt, UK. 40-700.

5^th. Ricky Grover, UK. 40-200.

Daily winners.

Day 1. Charlie Greaves. 22-800.

Day 2. Shane Dunne. 17-900.

Day 3. Steve Thorpe, UK. 24-100.

Daily weights.

Day 1. 225-750.

Day 2. 204-000.

Day 3. 253-400.

Total weight. 683-150.

Prize money was €2100-00.

The second event was:-

O’Callaghan’s Open. 19 fished

Overall.

1^st. Charlie Greaves. 67-400.

2^nd. Ricky Grover, UK. 65-300.

3^rd. Tommy Lawton, Fermoy. 52-500.

4^th. Steve Thorpe, UK. 49-600.

5^th. Dave Carter, UK. 46-300.

Daily winners.

Day1. Charlie Greaves 19-000.

Day 2. Ricky Grover. 29-400.

Day 3. Kevin Gray, UK. 27-100.

Daily weights.

Day 1. 226-100.

Day 2. 277-500

Day 3. 239-700

Total weight 743-300

Prize money was €2580 which included €500 sponsorship from O’Callaghan’s Bar.

The fishing on both events was good with lots of roach on the pole and whip and plenty of skimmers on the feeder.

Pike up to 21 lb. for a Belgium party at Melview Lodge

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Paul Bourke

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May 11, 2012

Eddie Maes with a 21 lb. pike at Melview Lodge

Kevin Lyons reports on the latest pike fishing for his guests on the loughs in the Longford area near Melview Lodge.

Eddy Maes and friend Ivan from Belgium were here once again for their annual fishing trip and to stay with Kevin and Jane at Melview Lodge in Longford, due to the up and down of the temperatures things were slow to get going. However they managed 65 Pike to 21 lb. during their stay, the bigger fish fell to float fished dead baits and the rest on lures and jerk baits. Their catch numbers were down on last years 108 but this was due to the weather, Kevin said the lads done well considering the weather and I’m sure we will see them back next year.

Kevin Lyons
Melview Lodge
Drumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Longford, Co. Longford.
Tel : +353 (0)43-33-45061 Mobile : +353 (0)87-268-7441
Email: [email protected] Web: www.melviewlodge.com

Good bream and tench fishing for english visitors at Melview Lodge.

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Paul Bourke

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May 11, 2012

Kevin Lyons reports on coarse fishing for his clients fishing waters near his base at Melview Lodge in Co. Longford.

Nigel Reed along with friends Howard and Alan all from the Devon area were over for their fishing holiday and this year stayed with Kevin and Jane at Melview Lodge in Longford, fishing on prebaited swims the Bream were a little slow to get going. The main catches consisted of Roach, Hybrids and skimmers, and the best Bream went to Howard at around 5 lb. Alan and friend Nigel did manage to catch some nice Tench as a bonus.

Howard with a nice Bream from his catch.

Some of the lakes and loughs in and around Longford have been affected by the weather over the past few weeks with the temperatures up and down like a yoyo, they have been producing fish but not the weights normally caught this time of year, Bream to 5 lb along with Hybrids, Roach, skimmers and some nice Tench to around 5 lb have featured. Next week we will have some more reports for you, good fishing.

Kevin Lyons
Melview Lodge
Drumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Longford, Co. Longford.
Tel : +353 (0)43-33-45061 Mobile : +353 (0)87-268-7441
Email: [email protected] Web: www.melviewlodge.com

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