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River Boyne Produces 1st Salmon

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David Byrne
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Good news from the River Boyne with the 1st fresh salmon of the season being caught at the ramparts in Navan last weekend. The fresh fish weighed circa 10 lbs. Water levels low and clear for the time of year. Nothing much has been reported moving at Blackcastle, and the counter is recording about half dozen fresh fish per week moving upstream and a couple dozen spent fish travelling downstream.

Navan and District Anglers are currently recruiting new members so don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to access some of the best 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

  • East coast angling (Colm Lynch) Balmoral ind. Estate, Navan
  • Clarkes sports Den, Trimgate Street, Navan
  • Angler’s world, Balmoral ind. Estate Navan
  • Southside Angling, Cork Street, Dublin 8
  • Rory’s, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

 

 

 

Nice flounder taken on lugworms up North

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IFI Staff
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A nice flounder for big Phil
A nice flounder for big Phil

By 9am Sunday morning, Glenn Drennan, Phil Oliver and Terry Jackson were standing on Benone Strand, the beautiful surf beach on the northernmost reaches of Northern Ireland, looking across to Donegal, Moville and adjacent to the large commercial fishing port of Greencastle. To explain, Glenn had won a beach outfit in a small competition, and although an accomplished angler, he had yet to try this discipline of our sport. Big Phil and Terry took it upon themselves to give Glenn a crash course in tackling a typical surf beach.

Lugworm and ragworm baits both tipped with mackerel strips
Lugworm and ragworm baits both tipped with mackerel strips
A nice flounder for big Phil
A nice flounder for big Phil

The surf looked good, with reasonable clarity and no annoying weed or dangerous surges pushing up the beach. In these ideal conditions, a simple over-head lob of around thirty yards is all that is required. In a stable surf, flounder and bass will hug the shore-line picking up anything edible or injured, dislodged by the crashing breakers. Glenn had been pre-warned that the seasonally severe drop in temperature during these bleak winter months usually drives any remaining species off-shore into deeper water, and he should not to expect too much; a blank session when shore angling in mid-winter is unfortunately all too common, and believe me, today was bloody cold!

As if to make Terry eat his words, Glenn’s first cast produced a series of thumping nods on the new rod and he was soon into his first beach-caught species. It certainly wasn’t a flounder bite and we guessed either a bass or out of season sea trout…….read the full article…..20/03/12….. http://www.eu.purefishing.com/blogs/uk/terry-jackson/2012/03/20/66/

A few more bass on the South Coast

By
IFI Staff
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Bass taken on crab
Bass taken on crab

After the mega bass session last week I returned to the same mark on Monday night. I arrived at an earlier stage of the tide compared to the previous session. There was a nice surf and it was a dark overcast night with a light southwestly breeze. I dug some fresh lug earlier in the day and also had a dozen fresh peeler crabs. As on the previous session I set up two rods with 4/0 pennel pulleys, one baited with lug, the other with crab.

Shortly after setting up I had a small coalfish. After about half an hour I had a sharp tug on the rod with the lug. This time it felt a much stronger fish and after a few minutes I hauled a 49 cm bass out of the surf – so off to a good start!! I had a couple more coalfish after that.

The tide was rapidly moving in now, so after moving everything back about 50 m, I started casting into a sandy gap between low bedrock exposures which was now submerged. First cast into this area produced another good bite again on the rod with lug. This time it was a smaller bass, with a length of 42 cm.

Bass taken on crab
Bass taken on crab

About 25-30 minutes later this was followed by a 44 cm bass, taken on crab.

Maybe another 30 minutes later I had the fourth bass, a 47 fish again on crab. This ran a slackliner in towards the shore, I had to reel in a lot of slack before I reconnected with it.

There was then a dry spell with just a few small coalfish to keep me occupied. First I had a double, a small coalie on each hook of the pennel on the crab, then another one on the lug. After about an hour I had the fifth bass, a 43 cm fish, taken on lug.

After that the bass appeared to have moved on. I fished for an hour or so more but only had 31 cm flounder at the end. So while it was nothing compared to the bass frenzy of the previous session, I was happy with the result: 5 Bass,6 Coalfish and 1 Flounder.

RockHunter,
South Coast, Ireland

http://rockhunter-southcoastbass.blogspot.com/

Concern continues over salmon farm – The Cork News

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IFI Staff
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The Save Bantry Bay (SBB) group has raised concerns that sea lice (pictured here), prolific around fish farms, may infect young wild salmon as they travel by.
The Save Bantry Bay (SBB) group has raised concerns that sea lice (pictured here), prolific around fish farms, may infect young wild salmon as they travel by.

A presentation prepared by a group opposing a multi-million euro salmon farm in Bantry for a closed meeting with Cork County Council is to be made public. The committee, Save Bantry Bay (SBB), which was formed in objection to the proposed €3.5 million organic salmon farm by Marine Harvest at Shot Head near Adrigole, has organised a public meeting tomorrow, Saturday at the Eccles Hotel following the Council Western Committee’s decision to refrain from discussing the issue whilst the license application is being considered.

The Save Bantry Bay (SBB) group has raised concerns that sea lice (pictured here), prolific around fish farms, may infect young wild salmon as they travel by.
The Save Bantry Bay (SBB) group has raised concerns that sea lice (pictured here), prolific around fish farms, may infect young wild salmon as they travel by.

 

Third generation Adrigole fisherman and SBB chairman Kieran O’Shea along with local Angling Association secretary Alex O’Donovan will present the report outlining the group’s objections to the development…….read full article…The Cork News…22/03/12

http://thecorknews.ie/articles/concern-continues-over-salmon-farm-4820

Irish Angling Update – 22/03/12

By
myleskelly
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Angling reports this week have been overshadowed by news of the death of angler Michael Ruane from Salthill, Galway, on Lough Corrib on Monday. Inland Fisheries Ireland would like to offer its condolences to the family and friends of Michael. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

40cm and 1.1 kg; a good perch by anyone's standards
40cm and 1.1 kg; a good perch by anyone's standards

County Cavan has always been a great location for pike and perch anglers and this week’s Catch of the Week goes ‘Mateusz’ for his 1.1kg perch taken on a spinner.  At a pike angling competition on the Shannon over the weekend where only your 3 best fish counted, the top 4 rods caught over 120lb between them. The winner was Joe McDermot with 40lb 9oz.

The Duck Fly is well up on Lough Corrib and trout anglers are reporting fish on nearly every outing. On Lough Mask the hatch has been patchier but there is still good wetfly fishing in the shallows. The milder weather of last week  led to an increase in fly activity on the lake, coupled with an increase in angling effort leading to greater catch returns. However, the news from opening day on Lough Derg was that fishing on opening day was disappointing but that the number of undersized trout returned is a source of hope that there is a good season ahead.

There were a few salmon caught over the weekend, and though some of these were fine fish with a 15lb springer taken at Delphi and one of 13.5lb at Currane, overall the salmon seemed reluctant to take despite favourable weather and water levels.

Congratulations to Gordon Higgins winner of salmon licence competition. Congratulations also to the winners of the juvenile salmon licences; Hans Bernhardt, Alec McCall, Mark Rogan, Brian Hope, Aidan Connolly, Kevin Egan, James Kelleher, Enda Hyland, Alex Butler and Joanne Griffin.

Peter Power reports that the mackerel are in and that there are plenty of coalfish, pollack and some cod to be had – mostly on feathers usch as the Hyabusa Sabiki or Shamrock Crazy Clowns. At Red Bay Hamish Currie was rewarded by a big 222lb skate for one of his anglers when they moved to deeper water behind Raithlin Island.

Prospects for the weekend look good as the weather is forecast to become settled with southeast winds stirring dry and very mild air from the continent towards Ireland. However there will be onshore breezes along the south coast which will make this cooler there, inland temperature could reach as high as 18C. Into next week the weather is likely to stay settled and dry, with light winds. The days will be very mild, but the nights will be cool with some grass frost, as well as a few fog patches.

Tight lines especially in Ireland

Paul Bourke

Angling Information Officer.
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Poor opening day for fishing on Lough Derg

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IFI Staff
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The fishing was poor on the opening day of the trout fishing season on Lough Derg on March 15.  Some 34 trolling rods fishing out of Garrykennedy produced just 11 trout over the legal limit of 14 inches. The best was caught by Sean Lyons (2lbs 1 ½ ozs). There were some heartening signs regarding stocks of undersized fish: One boat returned five and another boat returned three.

We hope the forthcoming Mayfly season, the highlight of the angling year on Derg,  will be better than recent years, which have shown a steady decline in catches.

Water quality, invasive species, predation and changes in weather patterns are issues that have been attributed to the fall off in catches. The closure of the lake’s only trout hatchery at Mountshannon a number of years ago may also be a contributing factor – but in the absence of scientific data we don’t know for sure what the problem is.

Anglers are hoping that the publication of a scientific study on native fish stocks in the lake, due for publication by the year’s end, will provide some answers. Dr Fran Igoe   is collating the data for the study and it is called the Lough Derg Native Fish Bio-Diversity Study.

Peter Gleeson

Nenagh Guardian

E-mail : [email protected]

Lough Mask Still Fishing Well

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IFI Staff
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Ronan Cusack reports that Mask produced very good fishing again this week, with the majority of fish being caught in shallow water on wetfly patterns.
Duckfly hatches are still sparse and only small numbers of trout have been taken on buzzer so far. Ballinrobe angler Frank O’Hara had 2 fish on Thursday last (best fish 1.75lbs). Frank mentioned rising and returning numerous small fish throughout the day.  Adrian Armitage and Johnny O’Malley from Mullingar fished on Wednesday and they had 5 fish for their day (best fish 1.75lbs). Joe Fitzharris and friend, Ballyhaunis, also fished on Wednesday, and Joe reported boating 21 fish, including 7 good sized trout, which were also returned. Their best fish on the day was approximately 2lbs. Pat Winning, Cork, fished on Wednesday and Thursday this week and he had 6 fish over the two days (best fish 1.75lbs).  Sean O’Loughlin, Galway, fished on Wednesday with Tony O’Donnell and they had 2 fish for the day (best fish 1.75lbs). Ballinrobe anglers Conor O’Mahony and Mick Byrne had 8 fish on Saturday and Sunday of this weekend (best fish 1.75lbs). Sean Maloney, Ballinrobe, fished on Saturday with Noel Farrer from Dublin and they had 10 fish for the day (best fish 2.25lbs). Sean fished again on Sunday and he had a further 5 (best trout 1.75lbs).
Ronan also guides on Mask and can be contacted at [email protected] or on 087 2869487.
Kevin Crowley IFI Galway
E-mail – [email protected]

Another salmon off the Galway Weir

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IFI Staff
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Brian O’Rourke with a nice spring salmon of 8.5lbs
Brian O’Rourke with a nice spring salmon of 8.5lbs

Angling does not seem as important this week, when spring was overshadowed by news of the death of angler Michael Ruane from Salthill, Galway, on Lough Corrib on Monday. Inland Fisheries Ireland would like to offer its condolences to the family and friends of Michael. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

Galway Weir

Water levels remained good all week, with just 4 sluice gates open on the weir, and a second fish of the season was landed on Tuesday by Brian O’Rourke from Tuam, a nice spring salmon of 8.5lbs. Settled weather this week and continuing nice water should see more fish coming into the river, and I hope to have more salmon to report from Galway soon.

Brian O’Rourke with a nice spring salmon of 8.5lbs
Brian O’Rourke with a nice spring salmon of 8.5lbs

 

Kevin Crowley IFI Galway

E-mail – [email protected]

Good hatches on Lough Corrib

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IFI Staff
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Lough Corrib

Duckfly hatches are going well on Corrib at the moment, and most anglers are reporting trout every day they are out. Frank Reilly reports good hatches in the Greenfields area, with some early olives and even some premature mayfly fluttering about too. 14 anglers reported 20 trout for low fishing effort, with retired fisheries inspector Pat Day landing 3 trout in one evening on fly. Sean Dixon took 2 fish on a Sooty Olive, while Pappy Cotter and a friend landed 6 trout for a day on wetfly patterns. Frank himself was out for 3 short sessions over the week and landed 7 trout on wetfly.

Kevin Crowley IFI Galway

E-mail – [email protected]

Great water conditions at Delphi but fish didn't co-operate!

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IFI Staff
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17/03/12 Finlough

Our last fish on Tuesday was when the river was at 20. Since then the water dropped until we had heavy rain on Thursday and Thursday night, 35.2mm to be exact. This gave the system a good flush of water and we had fresh fish in. Conditions on Friday were good and Gareth Byrne from Offaly had a cracking fish off Finlough of 15lbs on a Cascade. Surprisingly that was all we had yesterday.
Today we have a new Swedish group in for the week headed by Hasse Dehlin.  Conditions today are excellent and the tops of the hills are even white so it’s typical Spring fishing. Joakim Jonsson started the week in fine style landing a fish that weighed in about 9lbs on a Sunrae Shadow from the Holly Pool. He then proceeded to lose one in the Rock.The water is now running at 50 so there should be nice water for a few days.

20/03/12  – Fin 1 Whin 1

All the rain on Saturday made for great water conditions on Sunday but I’m afraid the fish did not co-operate. Some of our anglers even went to the Owenduff with nice conditions and they also blanked.
Yesterday, however we did manage to land 2 fish.
Thomas Dehlin had a fresh fish off Finlough of 7lbs on a Norwegian tube fly.
Local angler Peter Joyce landed a sea liced fish of 6lbs10.5 ozs in the Whin Pool on a Willie Gunn.
Conditions today are good with the river running at 30, but so far we have nothing landed.
D McEvoy
Delphi Fishery
Delphi Lodge, Leenane, Co. Galway.
Tel: +353 (0)95-42222 Fax +353-95-42296
Web: www.delphi-salmon.com

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