Casting a fly at the Island Pool yesterday afternoon.
Water levels have fallen during the past week, which has been mainly dry and the gauge at the Four Masters’ Bridge is now at 0.84 metres, approaching a more fish-able level. No more fish have been reported and angling effort has been light.
Casting a fly at the Island Pool yesterday afternoon.
Prospects for the weekend look more promising as water levels continue to drop and further dry but colder weather is forecast for the rest of the week and weekend. Shane Gallagher Drowes Salmon Fishery Web:www.drowessalmonfishery.com Tel: 071 9841055.
28 anglers turned out for the latest match in the Float Only Winter League in mild and calm conditions. The match was fished on the Ballyconnell Canal at No1 & No2 Locks with a section on the harbour at Lough Garadice. Although the weights were low plenty of small fish were again caught.
The Canal section at No1 Lock dominated the results this week with Brenton Sweeney (Cootehill) winning the Match on peg C3 fishing the Pole for 3.530Kgs.
Runner up Simon Huthwaite (Enniskillen) on No2 Lock peg 1 with 3.180Kgs, while Nick Howell (Kilskeery) was third with 3.140Kgs on No 1 Lock.
Other section winners were Lyndon Read (Lisnaskea) 2.250Kgs on the Harbour at No1 Lock, Colin Foster (Co Cavan) 1.790Kgs on No 2 Lock and Jack Tisdall (Ballinamallard) 0.990Kgs at Garadice Harbour.
Neil Mazurek (Cootehill) remains on top of the league with 32 points.
The next match in the league will be on Sun 22 Jan, book in as normal if you wish to fish. Jack Tisdale Email:[email protected]
Courtown Sea Angling Club are running their annual RNLI fundraising competition on Sunday next 15th January 2012. Fishing will take place from 2pm till 6pm and all are welcome to attend and participate in the event. Tea and sandwiches will be served afterwards at the boathouse and all donations are welcome. All anglers and friends are encouraged to support this great event.
If you would like to take part in the competition or simply attend and support the event you can get details from Joe Byrne, Courtown Angling Centre at 087 6613145
Peadar O'Brien shows his best catch of the day a lovely 13lb pike
Peadar O’Brien fished recently in the Cavan area and reports that he had a good day fising. The weather was mild and the fish seemed to be active on the day. His biggest pike of the day was one of of 13lb but he reported that he lost another heavier fish. Peadar attributes his action packed day to a selection of new lures which he purchased recently from Colm Lynch of East coast angling in Navan.
Peadar O'Brien shows his best catch of the day a lovely 13lb pike
If you fancy a guided days pike fishing with Peadar O’Brien he can be contacted at [email protected]
Annamoe Trout fishery has been fishing exceptionally well recently. No doubt the unusually mild conditions for this time of year are a contributory factor. Over the weekend all methods worked at the fishery, one angler had ten hard fighting rainbows to 3lbs weight. Another angler had a fish using a floating line with a long leader and team of buzzers. Fish were active on the surface and small dry files also worked well.
Brian Nally Annamoe Trout Fishery
Annamoe, Co. Wicklow.
Des Chew of the Dublin Angling Initiative and Tommy Duff aged 11 with a hybrid from Lough Ramor
A group of youngsters fishing with Des Chew and Josie Mahon of the Dublin Angling Initiative last week in Lough Ramor had great sport with a wide variety of coarse fish caught. Children and parents enjoyed watching their first coarse fish being caught.
Des Chew of the Dublin Angling Initiative and Tommy Duff aged 11 with a hybrid from Lough Ramor
Red and white maggots were used as bait, waggler floats with hooks set 2 foot below the surface. For many of the youngsters it was their first time to catch roach and hybrids, All fish were released unharmed back to the lake.
Jack O’sullivan, RIP, An Appreciation. JACK was definitely one of the best known Irishmen by Britain’s thousands of Coarse Anglers.
He was a deceptive man, casual, easy going in his approach, and soft spoken, but it is all a mammoth, although completely unintentional deception.
For behind the calm, unruffled facade was a dynamo of human energy, a decisive mind capable of quickly rejecting the superfluous and reaching to the core of the matter, whatever it may be.
Up to his retirement from his drapery shop, to thousands of people, not just from his native Fermoy but also from the UK, the sight of Jack O’sullivan leaning over the counter in his shop was a familiar one.
He is a man who worked hard to put the town of Fermoy, and the stretches of the River Blackwater that enhance it, to the forefront of tourism.
The story of Fermoy’s success as a coarse angling centre has been told before, but much of the success that was achieved is down to one man, Jack O’sullivan, for 25 years he led from the front, not just by putting Fermoy on the map as a Coarse Angling destination but also his country, when he brought the likes of the World Coarse Angling Championships to Fermoy in 1968, and many other prestigious events down through the years.
We can't guarantee the weather, but good fishing is nothing unusual
It’s more than a decade since the Irish angling holiday trade staged an angling promotion ….. but we are back for a final bash starting on Monday February 6.
Anglers are welcome to “Enjoy a Taste of Ireland” and an angler’s night out with Ireland’s Angling Tourism Experts.
We can't guarantee the weather, but good fishing is nothing unusual
You are invited to be a guest for a hot-pot supper plus a chance to meet and chat with leading representatives of Ireland’s angling travel trade – hoteliers, pub owners, B&Bs and self-catering houses.
And you might win a holiday for two! You will receive a complimentary draw ticket to be drawn during the evening – a prize that will whisk you off to one of Ireland’s top angling centres. Our prize holiday includes the car ferry and five night’s bed and full breakfast in a twin ensuite room.
Stoke-on-Trent 7.30pm Monday February 6
The Bradeley Pub, Stratheden Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 7NU
St Helens 7.30pm Tuesday February 7
Moss Bank Sports Club, Queensway, St Helens WA11 7BY
Birkenhead 7.30pm Wednesday February 8
Lairds Club, 13 St Peter’s Road, Birkenhead, CH42 1PY
To make sure of a seat … why not pre-book your table for supper. It doesn’t cost anything and all you have to do is telephone 0151 324 4744 or email [email protected]
For more details please contact Dave Houghton on 0151 324 4744
The staff at Cashel Trout Fishery would like to thank all our anglers for their custom in the past year and would like to wish everyone a very happy and prolific 2012. Tight lines!!!!
Dungiven brothers Shane and Mark Irwin battled against the elements with friend Emmet Mc Closkey but to no avail. Jim Russell and Danny Walker (Newtownabbey) bagged one each which were 4lb and 2lb respectively. Dungiven’s Martin Bradley released seven which fell to a green damsel. John Hasson (Dungiven) used the green fritz to bank four trout which he released. Pearse Doherty (Maghera) had a brilliant time releasing thirteen trout which took a wee egg fly and a few dries. Claudy’s Kevin Burke released two which took the diawl bach. Derry’s Aidy Askin released nine which took the wee buzzers while Michael Mc Kee and Michael Forrest accompanied by Liam Mullan (Limavady) released thirteen trout between them which fell to buzzers and minkies. Pearse Mc Gill (Lavey) released one.
Anthony Greene of Top Tackle decided to kick off the New Year with a day’s fishing in Cavan accompanied by his brothers Declan and Alan….
“We have been trying to hook up with them for the last few months and the Christmas break was the perfect time to do so. Unfortunately Declan and Alan could not make the early start due to “one too many” the night before, so myself and Noel headed out by ourselves to hunt down the first monsters of the New Year and we would be joined by the lads later.
Anthony with the first pike of the day
We started off the morning trolling lures near islands and along the reeds looking for the illusive monster but the Pike would not take to them. We headed into a small bay that looked promising and I was into a nice jack straight away. The boat was mid-turn when the jack hit the 8 inch Rainbow Trout Bass Harasser so there was a slight moment of panic when the line started to become caught around the engine. Luckily enough Noel was on the ball and quickly freed the line and fish was still on. The pike trashed about on the surface as I reeled him in to the side of the boat where Noel slipped the net under and we had our first Pike of the day. After a quick shot for the photo album it was released and swam back to the depths.
Noel caught another jack just moments after the first was returned
Just as I watched it swim off, Noel saw his rod bouncing quite sharply and he barely had fifteen feet of line out, he had hooked into another jack slightly bigger than the one that had just been released. He reeled in and it turned out to be a little trickier than he first expected as it made several darts under the boat, but eventually he got it in the net.
Alan poses with the 13 lb pike
Later in the morning we got a phone call from the lads who were just about at the lake, so we decided to troll over and get them. Noel and I were chatting about how great it would be to land a pike on the way into the lads. Just as neared the shore, where the bottom shelved from about 26 metres to 20 metres I felt a few taps on the 8 inch Shimmy Shad– Firetiger and I was on. I underestimated the size of the fish, thinking it was another small jack until it shot up and broke from the water. I looked back and knew it had to be a double and now the pressure was on. Noel switched off the engine and we started drifting towards the shore. The pike tore line from the reel and did one more jump before ending up in the net. It provided some top class sport and we were delighted as we were just at the shore and we got a few great snaps of the 13lb Pike with Alan and Declan.
Declan's first pike
We set back off for a couple of hours and things had really gone quiet until Declan felt his rod bend. He was overcome with excitement and started reeling in. The jack kept trashing about on the surface to try and escape but Declan kept a tight line and Noel netted Declan’s first Pike. As you can see from the pictures, he was delighted with the catch.
Unfortunately Alan did not get to land his first Pike but he will joining The Top Tackle Duo again quite soon.”
