Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters reports that tope are showing in good numbers off the coast of Wicklow at the moment. With a bit of settled weather and some luck getting fresh mackerel for bait, one group had a cracking 30 tope to the boat for the day.
Kit is working with some scientists this week, helping out with a tagging programme, hoping to learn a bit more about the movements of these important species in our coastal waters.
East coast waters are home to some of the best fishing in Ireland, with Wicklow boasting record catches of Tope, Bull-Huss, Ray and Spurdog in recent years. Catch Gurnard, Pollock and Codling on the inshore rough patches or on the offshore banks. Target your Specimen Tope, Spurdog, and Bull-Huss with Kit your local experienced skipper and accomplished Irish International Angler.
Angling Charters are offered on a full-day, half-day and evening trip basis and can be tailored to suit your needs. Two boats are available – Manannan Mac Lir and Castle Maiden. All levels of anglers are catered for. Anglers will benefit from your skipper’s angling experience and local knowledge with advice and guidance on-hand at all times.
Rod and tackle hire available, coaching and Bait supply on request.
SPECIALIST ANGLING CHARTERS
Specialist Angling Charters are offered for those who wish to target specific species, specimen fish or try new angling methods.
ANGLING COACHING
Whether you’re a Club, Individual, School or Junior, you can have an angling coaching session or programme tailored to suit your needs.
Castle Maiden
Offshore 105, 370 Hp Iveco
Skipper: Kit Dunne Licence: P5 Base: Wicklow Harbour Operational area: Wicklow, Arklow, Bray, Dun Laoghaire, and Courtown – 30 miles from ports of departure.
Manannan Mac Lir
Swiftcat 11.4m, 2 x 420hp Iveco
The new vessel, called “Manannan” for short, is an 11.4m, (37.5’), x 4.4m, Swiftcat, a state-of-the-art Charter Boat with great speed, safety, stability & comfort. She has a very spacious flush deck with walk around wheelhouse giving ample flush deck space all-round. With today’s high level of design options, she is well fitted out with all mod cons. She is a twin-engine shaft driven Catamaran, fitted with 2 x 420hp Iveco FPT NEF67 engines, she cruises at 18-20 Knots, with a top speed of 28 knots.
The Leinster Coarse Fishing Federation held their yearly night match at Enfield last weekend. 13 anglers lined the banks for the event, and there were plenty of fish caught, including some sizeable bream by the looks of the pictures.
Once again, Dean Markey proved to be the top angler on the night with an impressive 26lb+, with Niall Sutton coming in second on 22lb.
Saturday, 13 July, saw 23 anglers turn out to fish the second qualifier at Oaklands lake for the 18 remaining places at the All Ireland Method Feeder Championship this September.
Winner of the match was Matija Ivkov with 57.90, followed by Roman Legeic 52.58 and in third Stephen Whyte with 47.92.
Section Winners, A Marius Vrubliauskas 17.86, B Donatas Zemaitis 40.04, C Ivaylo Benov 47.30, D Grazvydas Karalius 44.34
Congratulations to the top 18, excluding those already qualified, who now make up the final 30 to fish the championship on 15th of September.
A very popular carp fishery. Popular with competition anglers and novices alike. Alway a great chance of a bumper bag here. Friendly staff more than happy to advise beginner anglers. Caters to all sorts of clubs and groups.
Jim Nowotynskie of Irish Deep Sea Charters made the most of the nice conditions and small tides on Sunday to get to an offshore wreck in search of ling.
The water temperature had come up nicely in the past week and over the morning was they had their first real hit of mackerel. So with plenty fresh bait they had a good day over the wreck and the ling weren’t long coming aboard.
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Irish Deep Sea Charters have also been getting some good results on the reefs. they had a great day recently with Ardmore angling club where the catch included some fine fish including a specimen wrasse and some tired arms in the evening.
Skipper: Adrian Nowotynski Licence:1779 Base: Union Hall Operational area:30 miles from Union Hall and Baltimore
Authorised blue fin tuna boat 2025
Notes: Wreck, reef, shark and ground fishing. Also half day trips available and individuals catered for when possible. Regular updates on Facebook at IrishdeepseaCharter. Second boat available
For the week ending 14 July there were 7 grilse and some sea trout caught on Lough Currane. The lake is very low and a good flood is needed.
For more information on the daily conditions, all the craic and news be sure to check out Vincent Appleby’s Salmon and Sea Trout blog for regular reports with back dates, petitions, public consultation notices, readers letters and videos and more of what’s happening on Currane.
Notes: Located at Lakelands House Bed and Breakfast and Self Catering Accommodation, on Ireland’s best sea trout lake, Lough Currane. Frank is a professional angling guide and boatman.
Sea angling can be arranged with local operators.
Boat Hire
Boats for hire. All boats and engines are moored on the farm, 300 metres from the house, with easy access from the road with car park and boat shed.
Notes: Having ghillied on Lough Currane for over 30 years Vincent is a great choice for those looking for a guided service or flyfishing instruction on the Lake. All ages are catered for and even experienced anglers will benefit from the watercraft and fly-lore unique to Lough Currane. All tackle is provided and accommodation can be organised if required.
Last Sunday, Loughanure Anglers held their McBride Memorial competition. Read their report…
Yesterday saw us host The McBride Memorial event. We had a great turn out and despite the bright conditions some lovely trout were caught…all safely returned as part of our catch and release program.
Lots of happy faces at the Catch & Release event
A special thank you to the McBride family for supporting the event, as always, thanks to everyone who entered and for all the help with the boats.
Munster Blackwater river levels were at normal level last week – low and clear. Catches of the larger Salmon on the Blackwater has lessened somewhat with the arrival of the smaller Grilse which are present in the upper estuary in good numbers.
Having said this Salmon angling remains comparatively slow compared to previous years (not including 2023) with the best or more frequent catches from those fisheries from Fermoy downstream to Cappoquin.
One of 4 salmon for Bill at Fortwilliam
At least one angler did enjoy some good fishing though. Bill Connolly, guided by Chris Coady, had a cracking days fishing on the Fortwilliam Fishery. Ball caught and released four salmon all on fly, and he met a and played a few other fish too.
Go Fishing…
Guided fishing, clubs, private fisheries etc
Blackwater Valley Fishery
Salmon, Sea trout and Brown trout fishing on prime fishing beats River Blackwater Co. Cork and Co. Waterford Ireland.
Blackwater Salmon and Trout Fishery control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater. The Ballyduff Bridge beat is almost a mile long offering a huge variety of water and is particularly suited to fly fishing. Upstream near the village of Ballyhooley (a few miles outside the town of Fermoy, Cork) we have two beats. The Ballincurrig Beat is one of the most beautiful locations along the river and has an excellent piece of fly water flowing into a deep pool. Just downstream on the opposite bank we have a short but productive beat, called Magners. This beat fishes also well in high water.
Blackwater Salmon Fishery has 3 beats downstream of the weir and 2 upstream of the weir. Blackwater Salmon Fishery offers fishing on approximately 5 miles of the river Blackwater. The fishing is spread throughout the middle section of the river to offer good sport throughout the fishing season. Due to the location of the beats, fishing can still usually be offered in low or high water. Contact Glenda Powell: Lismore, Co Waterford, Email:[email protected] Mobile: +353 (0) 872351260 Telephone: +353 (0) 5853929 Web: www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com
Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages
Fortwilliam Fishery offers two miles of double bank salmon and trout fishing over five beats on the river Blackwater.
Our salmon include – Springers, May Salmon, Grilse, Back End Salmon, and in Summer sea trout.
Our beats provide a wide variety of water, suitable for both beginners and the more experienced fishermen.
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland Web: fortwilliamireland.com/fishingEmail: [email protected] Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299
Careysville Fishery
Careysville Fishery offers some of the best salmon fly fishing in Ireland and includes 26 named pools. It is considered by many to be one of premier beats for salmon fishing in Ireland. Wading is excellent and among the numerous streams, pools and glides there is a great variety of fly fishing to suit both complete novice and challenge the most competent of fly casters.
At Lismore Castle & Golf Course Fishery, we offer nearly two miles of two inter-linked beats, the Castle Beat & the Golf Course Beat.
The legendary Castle Beat consistently ranks as one of the top Salmon beats on the River Blackwater, for the number of Atlantic Salmon caught per rod. The Golf Course Beat offers about 1.5 miles of fishable water through meandering majestic countryside. The Golf Course beat offers a number of bewildering pools suitable for unmatched spinning and bait fishing.
For bookings contact Joe Willoughby on Mobile no. 00353 87 8295449 or Email: [email protected]
We provide Day Tickets for some prime Salmon fishing in Mallow Co. Cork. We have excellent fly water, shrimping worming and spinning also. We also have very competitive Day rates and we have very recently upgraded our fishing.
Tickets available from “The Bridge House” and “Vincent Downes Menswear” Mallow.
Located on the Munster Blackwater in the south of Ireland. Situated mid river between the towns of Fermoy and Mallow. A productive left bank beat in stunning surroundings.
For bookings contact Conor Arnold: +353 87 755 4682
For details on availability and conditions of fishing for salmon and trout on the Longueville House waters please contact them at Contact : Longueville House Hotel, William O’Callaghan Address : Mallow, Co. Cork. Telephone : 00 353 22 47156 Email:[email protected] Website: www.longuevillehouse.ie
Killybegs Mariners SAC members enjoyd great fishing during the week. See their short report below…
A brilliant day’s fishing with an incredible 21 species landed between Christopher, Gavin and John out aboard St Catherine on a glorious balmy summer’s day on Donegal Bay.
Always lovely to see the haddock, plaice, turbot, spotted rays along with all the rest of the species.
Earlier in the week, Cormac Duddy enjoyed nice fishing with good size ballan wrasse, a new club record shore coley of 47cm and good conger from a local shore mark.
A total of 52 rods fished the Ballinlough Fishery over the past four weeks catching over 100 trout many of which were released. Amongst the successful anglers were Dan O’Donavan and Mike Shanks who had a phenomenal 18 trout for their day’s fishing including a fine rainbow trout at 3.75 lbs. The biggest rainbow trout for that period, however, was caught by the P. McGuinness party weighing 5 lbs., while David Duffy and boat partner recorded the heaviest brown trout at 4 lbs.
Most successful flies included Green Peter, Boobies, Daddys, Invicta, Dabblers and Buzzers as well as several nymph patterns such as Daiwl Bach and Montana. Fishing dries also worked well for some particularly later in the day or during evenings. Dry sedge patterns were most successful.
Ballinlough is a shallow, limestone lake of 22 hectares located 3.2km north of Westport and is managed by IFI. It is a rich lake with a marl bottom and has been stocked with rainbow trout and brown trout. The fish are known to be free rising, and are encouraged by hatches of olives, sedges and wind-blown terrestrials. Trout can be taken on traditional wet flies including Peter Ross, Bibio, Invicta to mention but a few. Streamer patterns such as the Minkie and nymphs can also work well. Dry flies, however, can also provide great sport particularly during evening times and during sedge hatches.
Further information on day tickets and bag limits is available here.
Castle Maiden
Manannan Mac Lir
Once again, Dean Markey proved to be the top angler on the night with an impressive 26lb+, with Niall Sutton coming in second on 22lb.
Chloe Jay
Boat Hire
Salmon and Sea-Trout fishing Guide
