Lough Lene in Collinstown, Co Westmeath has been fishing very well of late. Shay Sumner from Navan had six fish on one outing during the week the best of which weighed in at 4lbs. Duckfly patterns, emergers, black pennels and small black dry flies are all producing fish. Luke Walpole also from Navan had 10 rainbows on one outing during the week. All of Lukes fish weighed between 1.5lbs and 2.5lbs.
Colm Lynch from East Coast Angling reports that salmon fishing is slow on the Navan waters at the moment and only two salmon have been reported taken on recent days. The best fish was reported to be in the 10lb bracket but in addition to the fish caught and released a number of fresh fish have been sighted in the area. Water levels are low and clear at the moment and no doubt some rain would help bring in a few fresh fish.
The Navan and District Waters are less than one hour from Dublin and cut out the need to travel long journeys. Memberships are available so why not give the club a call today!
Additional Information on local fishing conditions and Membership of the Navan and District Anglers Club is available from Colm Lynch at East Coast Angling, Balmoral Industrial Estate, Navan, Co. Meath. Tel: 087 2044996
Navan and District Anglers Association are continuing to recruit new members so don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to access what can be some of the best salmon fishing on the east coast. Membership forms are available either by emailing the club at [email protected] or from the following tackle dealers details of which can be found at www.fishinginireland.info/tackleshops/index.htm
Colm Lynch from East Coast Angling reports that water levels are low and clear in the Boyne at Navan at the moment. However, trout anglers are happy as the brown trout fishing on the River Boyne at Navan has improved in recent days. Good numbers of wild brown trout are now being taken on dry and wet flies and some on streamers. During the last week Simon Cassidy and Tony Linus have had lots of trout to 1.5lbs. Today Friday 13th saw large number of Hawthorn fly around the Kilcarn section of the river. As the Hawthorn flies get blown onto the water this is sure to stir the trout into action. There are also some olives around at the minute. Some trout are rising freely to dry flies but periods of activity are short lived.
Additional Information on local fishing conditions and Membership of the Navan and District Anglers Club is available from Colm Lynch at East Coast Angling, Balmoral Industrial Estate, Navan, Co. Meath. Tel: 087 2044996
Navan and District Anglers Association are continuing to recruit new members so don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to access some of the best wild brown trout fishing on the east coast. Membership forms are available either by emailing the club at [email protected] or from the following tackle dealers details of which can be found at www.fishinginireland.info/tackleshops/index.htm
Emy and District Anglers PRO Enda Fields reports that Emy Lake in Co Monaghan continues to fish extremely well despite the recent cool weather. The club are are delighted with the additional new members have joined the club in recent weeks which they feel is great for the future of the club and fishing in the area. The club has been very active in recruiting new members and looking to introduce new members to both the club and the sport of angling. The club expresses its thanks to David Byrne, Inland Fisheries Ireland with whom we have been working closely and for helping promote our club.
In addition to our recruitment drive, our stocking programme has seen over 2000 (2lb plus) brown trout stocked recently into the lake. Emy club PRO Enda Fields & club Treasurer Jimmy Skinnader took 9 brownies on April 12th (all fish returned to fight another day). Best flies for April are the Duck Fly & Claret & Mallard.
A number of places are still available in the club for the 2012 season, so why not contact us today! Trout fishing only is available on Emy Lake for holders of day tickets or season permits. Day tickets may be obtained from Paul Gormley “ GORMLEYS SHOP” North Main Street Emyvale Telephone 047-87573 Mobile 087- 6128259 or Dick Kiernan at Venture Sports in Glaslough Street, Monaghan Town, Tel: 047- 81495 or mobile 086-8351378. Anglers become members of the club for insurance purposes on the issue of a day ticket or a season permit.
These days out walking along the river I note the spots where I did my fishing. I never graduated to fly-fishing. With me it was the simple worm or spinner. The thrill of pulling a trout out of the river was incredible. Indeed, the thought of it these days has tempted me to try my hand at it again. But what I have seen over the last few weeks has convinced me that I am far better off staying away from the river…..The Bray People…04/04/12…….read the full article..
March 17th marked the opening of the trout season on my local river, the Dodder. It’s where I caught my first fish many years ago and for that reason I’ve always been very fond of this little river. Well, that and the fact that it also offers some fantastic trout fishing on my doorstep, right in the heart of Dublin city.
I was joined on the opening day fellow Lurefish Ireland angler Sam and Stephen of Irishsportfishing.com. However we wouldn’t be fishing the fly this time, instead we would be using the kind of ultra light lure gear that we use for LRF (light rock fishing) and fishing both hard and soft plastics for the trout. We actually fished the soft plastics for the trout in a slightly different way this time and used ultra light 1/80 Oz Tungsten bead jig heads. This allowed us to fish the small soft plastics more like a fly I suppose, allowing them to sink slowly and come around in the current as we slowly worked them. It proved to be a very effective technique and accounted for a few decent fish over the weekend. Anyway I’ll let the photos do the taking and just say what a fantastically enjoyable weekends fishing.
April 9th
Although it’s very much been a case of the ones that got away recently. We’ve had plenty of follows on the lures, lost some cracking fish at the net but still managed to land a fish or two, on both lures and also on the dry fly.
Dave Fitzpatrick
Lurefish Ireland
Well… I’m on evenings this week, so I got up early yesterday, to a frosty start and headed to an East Cork mark. And to sum it up, I had a few hours of lure fishing with the feed shallow 128 and an Amikiri minnow, and nothing. But when I headed back to the car I thought I would have one or two more casts and on my second, a lovely Bass charged in at the lure only to peel off at the last second right at my feet……so close to a start for my season!
And the fish are here now for sure, being caught on lure!
That’s fishing!
Next week I have two kayak safety courses to do and the sea kayak one will run for the next 5 weeks.. AND I have to start paddle training for Ocean to city, and get a cycle or two in and CATCH A BASS!!!!
Time is everything!
Best of luck to all Bass Anglers for this season and please release a few fish to make sure we have many more to come!
TIGHT LINES!
http://bassfishingcork.blogspot.com/2012/04/so-so-close.html
Due to the strong winds and cold temperatures there was very little angling activity on Lough na Leibe this week. There were a few brave souls out in search of trout with most managing a fish or two. There were a total of 40 trout reported by anglers for the week including 16 trout caught in the dry fly fishing competition held on Sunday the 8th April, see report below. Club member Dave Cadman managed 9 trout for the week. Colm Walsh managed 12 trout on Sunday the 8th April. This included one fantastic Brown trout of over 3lbs. As always if you have a catch to report please e-mail it to the Club email address available on the Club website. Successful fly patterns were Dry Fly; Palomino Midge, Hawthorn F-Fly and Black Gnat all fished static: Wet Fly and Nymph; small midge pupae patterns, small nymph patterns, buzzer patterns, emerging duckfly patterns and various lure patterns retrieved using a very slow figure of eight or fished static.
Fishing report for Lough na Leibe Dry Flyfishing Competition 08/04/12.
The CDC Cup sponsored by Colm Walsh, the first trophy of the season was up for grabs on Lough na Leibe on Sunday 08th April and despite the windy, wet and cold conditions a few hardy souls braved the water in search of glory, Even with the poor weather the fish were still feeding hard up in the surface. There was a great hatch of duckfly, black gnat,Hawthorne fly, the fish were feeding hard on the black gnat & Hawthorne fly that were been blown on to the water by the North Western wind. They were also feeding on duck fly.
The competition got under way at 12:00 midday and the 2011 evening league winner Tommy Lynch was quick off the mark landing 3 and losing 1 trout in play in the first 30mins to take the lead of the competition. Francis Brady who has been in fine form in competitions so far this season was not to be outdone and over the next hour landed the next 4 trout to edge into a slender lead. John Presley then opened his account for the season with the next fish of the competition to move into third place. During the next 40mins John, Francis and Tommy all landed one trout each to leave the scores at Francis 5 trout, Tommy 4 trout and John 2 trout. The second trout John caught was to prove the biggest of the day at 1lb 9 ozs, a nice trout indeed. During the last 2 hours of competition Tommy caught 1 more trout and lost 2 in play moving onto 5 trout caught, however it was not to be Tommy’s day. Francis landed 4 trout and lost 2 in play to move onto 9 trout caught and with great delight retained his crown of Lough na Leibe Dry fly fishing champion for 2012. Congratulations Francis on another fine fly fishing display.
The results from the dry fly competition were.
1st Francis Brady with 9 fish total weight of 7 lbs 6ozs;
2nd Tommy Lynch with 5 fish total weight of 3lbs 1ozs.
3rd John Presley with 2 fish total weight of 2lbs 1ozs.
Lough na Leibe angling rules
Bag limit of 2 Trout per angler per day.
Flyfishing, Worm fishing with float only (no legering) and Spinnig are only permitted methods of fishing.
No Maggots, Shrimps or any other baits to be used.
Absolutely no ground baiting allowed.
Tight Lines
Martin Lawrence
Public Relations Officer
http://www.ballymoteangling.com/
Ballymote & District Angling Club.
Wed April 11th: Fishing continues to improve on Lough Corrib, Colm Murphy and Adrian Petcu were up from Cork and had 7 trout on wet fly, for a days fishing, including a couple of 2 lb fish. The boys used Mayfly patterns. All except for 2 were released. Good fishing especially considering the weather conditions.
Connie and Donal Connolly.
Nonaim Lodge
www.fishingcorrib.com
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13th April – Bass fishing was pretty good recently even though the weather has been unseasonably cold. Daryl, Louise and Luke Wilkinson joined us and the catch for the week was 40 bass, 2 mullet and a few pollock and wrasse. Most of the bass were on fly. Young Luke managed to catch his first ever bass on fly (see gallery) and several others. He also caught his biggest ever bass. My 12 year old son Stephen joined us for an afternoon and managed to catch 3 bass in 3 casts (see gallery). I had one session myself a few days before the Wilkinsons arrived and caught 12 bass to 6.5lbs on surface lures. Unfortunately, in spite of trying the same area on several other occasions we didn’t find fish there again.
It was encouraging to see that in spite of very cold weather bass could still be caught on fly and lure.
John Quinlan
Address: Thatch Cottage, Kenneigh West, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.
Telephone: +353 (0)64 9474721
Website: www.thatchcottageireland.co.uk Email: [email protected]
