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Great improvement in salmon and sea trout fishing on Lough Currane

Colin Lynham with a nice salmon from Lough Currane

From his blog at http://wwwsalmonandseatroutphotos.blogspot.com/

ghillie Vincent Appleby reports on fishing trends from Lough Currane.

2/4/12 All the Head lines go to Tam, who caught a 7 lb. salmon on the troll with his Father-in-law and renowned ghillie Mr. Vincent O’Sullivan and of www.vincentsfishing.com and for the rest of we anglers the least said the soonest mended. Wind N light and overcast with the odd shower.

3/4/12 It was a hard day out on Lough Currane with a strong NNE blowing across the Lake, but this didn’t deter my noble anglers from venturing out, and all the head lines go to Mr. Philip Smith of the UK who caught his first ever salmon weighing in at 10 lbs caught on the troll fishing out of www.butlerarms.com and with his ghillie Mr. Junior Scully, so congratulations to Philip and may it be the first of many, and as his good friend, Mr. Kevin Toale said to me there is nothing like your first salmon and there is no argument to that. Wind as already stated.

4/4/12 There was a strong NNE blowing across the lake and there were only two boats manipulating in the wild conditions and I can say thing, both failed miserably in their duties.

5/4/12 Again we had that NNE wind blowing across the Lake, but at least we had a catch of the day, and that goes to Local ghillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy, who caught a fine 10 lbs salmon on the troll and in the words of Dominic, you can’t take a photo of the Salmon it is already cut up and in the deep-freeze. 6/4/12 They say the early worm that catches my noble gentlemen the salmon and today was a perfect example of that, when renowned ghillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy headed out early this morning and caught himself a fine 8 lb. on the troll before 9 am and headed home as the other anglers were just arriving for their blank day, need I say more. Wind NNE light to fresh and overcast.

7/4/12 Lough Currane may be on the low side but fair play too Lough Currane its coming up with my Noble Gentlemen the Salmon and catch of the day goes to Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of [email protected] who caught a cracker of a salmon on the troll, weighing in at 13 lb. and talking of big fish one angler today got into salmon at the Bull Rock and drifted across the Lake too Water Lillie Bay, and I believe he didn’t see the salmon for the first 20 minutes but as he approached Water Lillie Bay the line went slack and the rest is history, how big the Salmon was I will leave too your imagination.

Well known ghillie Michael O'Sullivan with a lovely salmon of 13 lb. from Lough Currane.

8/4/12 Waterville Fishery saw some good action in all departments this Easter Sunday, I start with the Sea Trout department where Mr. Patrick Duperat of France caught a fine 4 lb. Sea Trout on the fly fishing with his ghillie Mr. Frank Donnelly and of www.lakelandshouse.com

French visitor Patrick Duperat with a 4 lb. sea trout with ghillie Frank Donnelly.

and in the salmon department Mr. Collin Lynham of Dublin fishing with his ghillie Mr. Mike O’Dwyer, caught a fine 7 lb. on the fly at the Reeds in the Mouth of Commeragh, and catch of the day goes to Local Gillie Mr. Vincent Appleby and of www.Salmonandseatrout.com who caught a fine Salmon of 10.5 lb. on the troll, they say self praise is no recommendation and I agree but those are the facts as see them. Now we head upstream Lough Derriana where Mr. Noel Clancy of Dublin caught 24 brown trout, and he was also telling that he also caught a few Kelts. Wind NW Light too fresh and overcast with light mist rain at times. With heavy rain coming in to night.

The redoutable ghillie and author Vincent Appleby with a lovely 10.5 lb. salmon

 

Colin Lynham with a nice salmon from Lough Currane

 

9/4/12 Lough Currane saw some reasonable action I start with the early shift yes you have it, Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy was in good form again when he caught a fine 11 lb. salmon on the troll, now we head for the fly department where Mr. Dave Ecclestone of the UK caught a fine 7 lb. salmon a the Bridge with his number 2 ghillie Mr. John Young of Waterville. Wind NW fresh too strong with the heavy showers and just for the record it made a small flood and the lake rose about five inches so far.

Ghillie John Young with Dave Ecclestone from the UK with a nice salmon

No Spin No Fly’s just facts.

Vincent Appleby
Eureka Lodge
Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry.
Telephone: +353 (0) 87 207 4882
E-mail: [email protected]
Webwww.salmonandseatrout.com

Lough Mask trout on buzzer and alder fly, rocky shores fishing well

Martin McCoy and couple of friends fished Lough Mask and had good sport with wets, dries and buzzer fishing. They saw a world of trout on Mask on the rocky shores and lively bay areas with fish on alder fly and adult buzzer.

 

 

Pollack, cod and coalies off Valentia, and many big basking shark were spoted too

On Friday, 30th March, the charter boat Sioux out of Valentia Island made her first trip of 2012. It was a beautiful day made even better by the fishing and wonderful wildlife. Siegy and crew spotted around 12 basking sharks near Puffin Island! Fishing was great with plenty of cod, coalfish and pollack coming to feathers and eels. They took a few fish home for dinner, the others were released.

Coalfish from Valentia
2 Coalfish and a pollack from from the blue seas off Valentia
Valentia Cod
Captain Siegy with some Valentia Island cod

Siegy Grabher
Sioux 35′ Offshore 105. 300 HP Ford
Valentia Island, Co. Kerry.
Tel: +353 66 9476420 or +353 87 6871267
Email: [email protected] Website: www.valentiafishing.com

Conditions Improve for Carrickmacross Carp Anglers

Coarse fishing has still been very tough in the NE over the last few weeks although some good fishing for hybrids has been reported from Lough Muckno. Not many anglers have been out fishing but it is hoped that this will change over this bank holiday weekend. Last week at the Brothers Lake (Lisanisk) in Carrickmacross reports were received of up to 20  Carp being caught from Wed to Sunday with some nice double figured fish being taken. Some good fishing for roach and skimmers has also been reported from Capragh.

Bio-Security Measures to Operate at next Fishmaniak Competition on Lough Muckno

The Fishmaniak Angling Club
Members of the The Fishmaniak Angling Club at a Previous Event on Lough Muckno

The Polish Angling Club ‘Fishmaniak’ are organising another fishing competition at White Island on the Lough Muckno on 14th-15th April 2012. The overnight event will start Saturday 14th at 6 pm and finish Sunday 15th around 11 pm. The event will be which is supported by Inland Fisheries Ireland will be run in accordance with best angling and bio-security practice and will incorporate the introduction of new bio-security measures to help in the battle against the spread of non native invasive species. These non native invasive species pose a huge threat to our fisheries habitats and biodiversity.

The Irish Angling Development Alliance (IADA) will oversee the net and footwear disinfection dip for the Fishmaniak Angling Club Competition to be held on White Island 14th and 15th April 2012.

A dip tank will be provided complete with Virkon Aquatic for that purpose and we at IADA commend the Fishmaniak club for adhering to best Bio security practice.

IADA also laud their approach to fish handling and care by their 5 hour weigh, record and release policy during this 17 hour match.

Pawel Ladniak of the Fishmaniak Angling Club stated the he and his members were very happy to adopt these new bio-security measures and was looking forward to another successful competition on Lough Muckno.



The Fishmaniak Angling Club
Members of the The Fishmaniak Angling Club at a Previous Event on Lough Muckno

Visit of IFI senior research officer Dr. Wm Roche to Bandon

Bandon Angling Association has invited IFI senior research officer, Dr William Roche to  a meeting which will be an open discussion on various topics. e.g Sea Trout, Brown Trout, Salmon, habitat and other items of interest.

The venue is: Munster Arms Hotel Bandon.
Date: Tuesday 17th April. Time: 8pm sharp.
For queries contact Fergal O’Regan on the club mobile number 086 3724358

Email: [email protected]

Salmon reports for the Rivers Laune and Lee.

EILEEN CARROLL MURPHY reports on salmon fishing on the River Laune and the River Lee.

RIVER LAUNE BEATS 1 AND 2

1 salmon weighing 5 lb. landed just above Killorglin Bridge on the River Laune last week by a local angler spinning,

LAUNE SALMON AND TROUT ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION WATERS AND BEAT 3

A few sea trout caught on Laune Anglers Waters.  Anglers are still catching spent fish and anglers are asked to be carefully when fishing worms for salmon.

RIVER LEE

2 salmon landed on the Lee weighing 6 lb. each taken by local anglers.

Irish Angling Update – 05/04/12

It has been quiet a week weather wise here in Ireland with the bright sunny warm weather at the start of the week followed by a very cold snap with snow, sleet, rain and hail and since then  much generally cooler weather with bright and overcast conditions at present.  Despite the changeable weather fishing activity coming up to Easter is wonderful with anglers enjoying very good fishing for most species in freshwater and at sea.  The only fishing which is slow is salmon fishing because water levels on most of our rivers and lakes are very low but that said I just heard that ten salmon were caught yesterday on Carrowmore Lake up in North West Mayo!

At the start of the week, there was plenty of activity down in Lanesborough where coarse anglers has some terrific fishing with good catches of bream up to specimen size along with big roach who appear to be ready for spawning so early this year.  There was some excellent catches of tench reported there early in week with some nice fish to 5.5 lb.  Up north the final of the float only league was fished last Sunday on the Roslea lakes and John Potters won the event with a nice catch of small roach.  Down on the River Barrow there was some wonderful bream fishing reported from the lower Graignamanagh area where catches up to 60 lb. a day were reported.

Pike anglers are looking forward to the Lough Key angling festival this weekend and the big international pike festival taking place on Lough Ree soon and where there were some good fish reported in the past week.  €20,000 of prize money is on offer for this popular annual international completion.  The Lithuanian Pike angling club had an outing to Lough Sillan last weekend and they enjoyed excellent fishing and all fish were returned safely.

A near specimen ling for Christy Lane deep sea fishing out from Courtmacsherry.

It is great to report at this time of year so much sea angling activity particularly at sea and well known charter skipper Mark Gannon reported some excellent deep sea fishing for his clients at Courtmacsherry.  One of his clients, well known specimen hunter Christy Lane from Cork caught a fine Ling of nearly 25 lb. and wins our Catch of the Week award.  Well known welsh angling journalist supplied us with an interesting article on stingrays in British and Irish waters.  Charter skipper Siegy Grabher down in Valencia Island reported some fine fishing with good catches of Pollack, cod and coalies and many big basking shark were also spotted while fishing.  Charter skipper Luke Aston reported on good deep sea fishing for his clients out from Carrigaholt on the Shannon Estuary including cod to 10 lb. and mackerel in good numbers in mid water.  Similar catches were reported up in Mayo by skipper Donal Kennedy with cod featuring in good catches.  There were many reports this week of good bass fishing off the Wexford, Waterford, Cork and Kerry coastlines.

Salmon anglers are praying for rain in most parts of Ireland as water levels have plummeted to record levels for this time of year.  There were a few fish reported around but fishing is generally slow on most of our major fisheries.  On Lough Currane only two fish were reported for the week while up in Carrowmore Lake in North West Mayo sport was excellent with many salmon coming to the fly in the past week.  A few fish were reported from the River Moy and there was fish reported on the opening days of Beltra and on the Ballisodare River.  At Delphi a few fish were reported but the area needs water badly. Conditions on the Drowes River and nearby Melvin produced a few fish but generally higher water levels are needed and salmon anglers are praying for rain.

Trout fishing has certainly come to the fore on many lakes and even the rain starved rivers but fishing was generally good with good hatches of flies providing good sport for anglers.  Lough Ennell, Owel and Lene are fishing well with duckfly and other patterns working well.  The duckfly fishing is practically over in the great western loughs where some hatches of olives have been seen in recent days.  Anglers enjoyed good sport on Lough Conn in the past week.  Many trout anglers are trolling on Lough Derg but fishing was described as tough.  There were reports of good trout fishing on rivers in the Limerick area and up in the River Lagan and the Cusher.  Rainbow trout fishing is still very popular around the country and there were good reports from Cashel, lough na leibe, Lough Rowan and on the Annamoe trout fishery.

Finally over the Easter period if you are going afloat, be sensible please wear a lifejacket, – it is the law and enjoy the excellent fishing that Ireland has in abundance on loughs river and at sea,

Tight lines especially in Ireland

Paul Bourke

Angling Information Officer.
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Good pike fishing reported from Lough Ree

Angling guide and journalist Mick Flanagan reports on pike fishing in the midlands area near Mullingar.

Nice Perch taken on Lure
Nice Perch taken on Lure

SUPER PIKE. The Midland Lakes are producing some super pike these days, and anglers are catching some huge double figure pike. Local angling Guide Barry Darby was on Ree last week and had some super pike. Lough Derravaragh is also producing good double figure pike, and we are back at the pike this week. I hope to have some action shots of pike taking the bait next week. One of the top lures working at the moment is the Belly Dancer. Drop into Brian Conlon of Anglers World and check the Belly Dancer

Michael Flanagan

Pike and Trout angling guide.

Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270

Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781

Email: [email protected]  Web: www.midlandangling.com

Trout report for Lough Ennell and Owel in the midlands.

Mick Flanagan with a nice trout

Angling guide and journalist Mick Flanagan reports on trout fishing in the midlands.

OWEL NEWS. Last week I spend a few days on Owel and plenty of Duck – Fly has the Trout on the move. Good news for Owel Anglers as the competitions kick start on April 15th when we fish the Ace Cup.  Last season we had some cars broken into and serious littering at Tullaghan and Mullallys, now the L.O.T.P.A. have installed CCTV cameras at both locations.

Well done to young Caitlin Smith who during our spell of good weather in March landed her first Trout from Owel. I hope the weather picks up once again for the Easter Holidays and Caitlin will be Out & About once again on the Trout scene with Dad Philip.

Young Caitlin Smith with her first ever trout from Lough Owel

ENNELL NEWS. Last Friday night Lough Ennell Trout Preservation Association hosted their A.G.M.  On the night the members honored Peter Caffrey with life membership. Quite a few anglers are fishing Ennell, and some good pike, perch and Trout are coming on line. It’s hard to entice an Ennell trout, and I was lucky enough to catch my first Ennell fish for 2012 last week.   I met the Coogan brothers on Cherry Island, and Morris kindly took the photograph of my fish.  The Lads are from the Curragh in Kildare, and have their boat in Whitebridge Bay.

Mick Flanagan with a nice trout

Michael Flanagan

Pike and Trout angling guide.

Address: 39 Springfield, Mullingar, Co.Westmeath, Ireland.

Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270
Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781
Email: [email protected] Web: www.midlandangling.com