Successful sea trout competition on the Moy Estuary

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June 28, 2024

Judd Ruane of Fishing Ireland reports that seventy-five rods fished The Moy Estuary boat and sea trout club competition last Sunday June 23^rd in excellent conditions. Sixty-four fine sea trout were weighed in with a 3 fish bag limit.

Heaviest bag went to Trevor Morrow with 4.9 lbs. In second place with 4.75 lbs was Sean Lavelle and Michael Cuffe in third with 3.9lbs.

Men’s heaviest fish went to Tom Durkan for 2.6 lbs.

Ladies heaviest fish went to Sharon Troy for 1.25 lbs and the juniors prize went to Colm McLoughlin for 1.35lbs.

The heaviest fish for a visiting competitor was 1.75 lbs and went to Brian Fay.

Best fish for the week on Pegasus was 3.04 lbs.

Go Fishing

Pegasus II

Quicksilver 640 Yamaha 120hp
Skipper: Judd Ruane
Licence: 1555
Base: Ballina Operational area: Ballina
Quay and Moy Estuary.

Notes: The angling boat Pegasus is equipped with the
latest technology, fishing tackle and safety equipment. Licenced for a
maximum of 4 rods skipper Judd Ruane specialises in catching sea trout
on the beautiful Moy Estuary. Daily charter departs Ballina Quay and booking
is essential. A salmon licence is required.

Address: Creggs Road, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
Telephone: + 353 (0)87673 6969 and +353 (0) 96 22183
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.fishingireland.ie

Salmon catches on the up on the River Moy

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IFI staff

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June 28, 2024

Michael Murphy reports from the River Moy…

River Moy Angling Report week ending 23-06-2024

Water levels at Ballylahan fluctuated only slightly again this week with a reading of 0.4 m on Monday 17^th dropping down to 0.35 m by noon on Sunday 23^rd. Catches were up on last week again with a total reported catch this week of 272 salmon for the system although some fisheries reported low levels of angling.

Weather wise the past seven days were drier than normal across much of the country with between 12% and 70% of average rainfall amounts recorded at most stations with the coming week expected to be more changeable and unsettled.

Moy Fishery

A total of 34 salmon were caught in Moy Fishery beats this week, 12 being taken and 22 being released back to the water. The Cathedral Beat had 1 taken and 1 released while the Ridge Pool had 8 taken and 21 released. The Weir Pool returned 3 fish for the week.

Billy Crory releasing his 7 lbs catch back to the waters of the Ridge Pool

Brendan Garland about to release an 8 lbs salmon at the Ridge Pool

Adam Connolly about to release a 3 lbs grilse on the Moy Fishery

Ballina Salmon Anglers.

A total of 19 salmon were reported caught this week with 10 caught on the worm, 5 on the fly and 4 spinning. The majority were grilse from 2.5 lbs and 5 lbs.

Mount Falcon Estate

A total of 8 salmon caught with four being taken and four released with weights ranging from 3lbs to 8lbs.

Knockmore Salmon Anglers

Kenneth reported of just the 1 salmon caught with very few anglers venturing out this week.

Coolcronan Fishery

Nick reported of 6 salmon being caught this week using all methods with two taken and four released showing weights up to 6.5lbs.

Byrnes Fishery

Roy reported 8 grilse caught this week with weights ranging from 3 lbs up to 5 lbs. All fish were taken on the worm and prawn.

Armstrong Fishery

George reported 9 salmon caught for the week taken on the bubble and fly and prawn. The heaviest fish weighed 8lbs.

Gannon’s Fishery

Pat reported 9 salmon caught for the week of which 2 were released. The heaviest fish weighed 7 lbs with all methods successful this week including spinning, worming and the shrimp. Similar to some other reports, angling pressure was down.

The Foxford Fishery

Granville reported 34 salmon caught for the week using all methods with the best caught on the prawn weighing 10.5 lbs.

Reports were received of 15 salmon caught this week in the Foxford town area. The bubble and fly and the worm appeared to be most successful methods with most fish ranging between 3 lbs and 6 lbs with the best weighing 9 lbs.

Foxford Salmon Anglers

Another good week’s fishing was reported with a total catch of 79 salmon caught for the week, with some fish released. All methods were successful with prawn, worm and bubble and fly doing very well. Angler numbers have increased this week, and a midweek competition was held to honour the memory of Micky Ruane. It was won by a local young angler Sean Walsh with a 5 lbs grilse caught on the worm.

Sean Walsh proudly showing off his winning catch in the Micky Ruane Memorial competition

Cloongee Fishery

A total of 14 salmon were reported caught this week with 3 of these reported as being released. Weights ranged from 2.5 lbs to 8.5 lbs, and most were caught on the fly with 3 reported caught on the worm.

East Mayo Anglers Association

A total of 34 salmon were reported caught for the week of which 15 were released. Successful methods included the fly, spinning and worming with weights from 2 lbs to 11 lbs. The heaviest fish for the week weighing 11 lbs was caught by Ian Guegan on the fly on 17^th June.

Good tope fishing continues in Shannon Estuary

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IFI Staff

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June 28, 2024

The past week has seen some windy weather at times, which for skipper Luke Aston and his guests means fishing in the shelter of the Shannon Estuary, out of the big swell. A welcome asset to fishing in this region, with fewer days lost to the weather. This year, Luke says, the tope fishing has been very good, with plenty of lively fish around. Dogfish, bull huss and ray have also been caught, including a rare enough spotted ray. The pics below are a sample of some of the estuary fish caught this week.

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When the wind dropped, they did manage some offshore fishing, with some nice fish off the botttom, plenty of coalfish with some nice pollack through them, and a shark drift produced a porbeagle shark.

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Go fishing…

Clare Dragoon

Clare Dragoon is a LOCHIN 366 powered by 650HP engine, skippered by Luke Aston and operating out of Carrigaholt Co. Clare…

I have some offers up on my web site www.fishandstay.com and if anybody is interested in putting a trip together please do get in touch. Also I Twitter from the boat on @fishandstay and try to update my face book page www.facebook.com/CarrigaholtSeaAngling fairly often!To experience some of the best deep sea fishing available in Ireland contact Luke.
Telephone: +353 65 9058209 or +353 87 6367544
Email: [email protected] Web: www.fishandstay.com

A few salmon reported from Currane

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Eileen Carroll Murphy

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June 27, 2024

There were 7 salmon from Currane reported to staff in the Waterville area and a few sea trout were also caught.

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.

Go fishing….

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Roslea Lakes Festival round up

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Paul O'Reilly

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June 27, 2024

The two-day Roslea Lakes Angling Festival 2024 was fished by forty three anglers on Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd of June. Conditions were good for both days of the event, but the fishing continued to be hard with bonus fish deciding the results. Overall winner was Peter Jones with 9.325KG, with Nick Seddon in second and John Potters in third.

Winner of day one was Eddie Griskaitis on Inver peg 17 who caught 3 Tench and some small fish for 6.875Kgs. Runner Up also on Inver, Peg 11 was Peter Jones with 6.000Kgs, in third was Tommy Dowd with 5.900Kgs on Killyfole.

Lough Lea was won by Nick Howell will 5.500Kgs, Gavins was won by Mark Theedom 2.975Kgs and Lyons was won by Jimmy Rush with 4.600Kgs.

Winner of day two was Dave Slater on Inver peg 17 who caught 3 Tench and some small fish for 6.150Kgs. Runner Up was Artur Dudek on Killyfole Peg 2 with 5.850Kgs including some nice Bream, in third was Julian Kendrick with 5.775Kgs also on Killyfole.

Lough Lea was won by Nick Seddon with 5.625Kgs, Gavins was won by Paul Eyres with 3.475Kgs and Lyons was won by Paul Boothby with 3.350Kgs.

Roslea Lakes 2024

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Derg trout taking well as they move on from pin fry

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Myles Kelly

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June 27, 2024

Senan Stanley is back out on Derg hunting for trout to see have they finished with the pin fry yet…

The evening after-work trout sessions in the lakeboat are back on! Wasn’t sure how the trout would be feeding, they were preoccupied on pin fry for ages so I left them alone, but they definitely seem to be back hitting the lures now anyway!

Nice feeding spell when the wind picked up, 7 wild brownies landed with as many again that shook the hooks, all safely released after a quick photo!

A 36cm perch fooled me into thinking it was a trout fighting like crazy. Perch are everywhere feeding high in the water across the bays, keeping the lures away from them for long enough that the trout got a chance was the key! Great craic, hon the Sheelin!

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JP Molloy wins WCAD Bantry Airstrip Open

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Myles Kelly

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June 27, 2024

West Cork and District SAC fished an Open at Bantry airstrip on Sunday…

Bantry airstrip was the venue for Sunday’s open competition. This venue always produces some quality fish and today was no different. Some fine thornback ray, bullhuss and conger featured during the match.

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Alan O’Dowling and JP Molloy had a good battle throughout the match but it was to be JP’s day, winning with a fantastic card of 22 dogfish just beating Alan who ended up with 21 fish which consisted of 20 dogfish and a ray. Well done JP.

Third place went to David Keating with 13 fish. David also won both the round fish pool with a conger of 99cm and the flat fish pool with a thornback ray of 78cm. Today’s pools was worth €90 per fish well worth the trip up from Waterford David.

Go fishing…

Our next outing will be in Caliso bay in August, we look forward to this.

All about West Cork and District SAC…

The club was formed on march 19th 2009, in the small picturesque harbour town of Kinsale County Cork. We’re an inclusive club, this can be seen in our membership profile; from anglers who are new to match fishing all the way up to members of the Irish World Shore Team 2010, two of which are in the club! The club holds circa 10 competitions per year, members are encouraged to practice a catch and release policy in the interests of conservation. Anybody wishing to join our club is always welcome, just use the contact us page and we will give prospective members full details.
Web: http://westcorkanddistrict.webs.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/West-Cork-and-District-SAC/

Anglers compete for place in All Ireland Method Feeder Final

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Shane O'Reilly

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June 27, 2024

The NCFFI All Ireland Method Feeder Final will be held in Oaklands Lake this September, and there are two qualifying rounds for anglers looking to take part. The first round was held at Gaulmoylestown at the weekend, and 18 anglers competed for a spot in the final. It was a close run thing at the top, as Karl Page with 64.48kg just pipped Johnny Bailey with 64.08kg to top the rankings on the day. The 12 top weights qualified for the final, and the second qualifier (already a sell-out) will be held at Oaklands on July 15th.

Full results below:

Fourth draw for lower Lee brown tags opens on Sunday

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Myles Kelly

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June 27, 2024

Inland Fisheries Ireland will open the fourth draw for anglers wishing to catch and keep salmon from Cork’s Lower River Lee on Sunday 30th June at 9am.

‘Brown tag’ regulations came into force on the river from February 1^st 2024 and will remain in place until September 30^th 2024, when the salmon fishing season ends.Commenting on the requirements, Sean Long South-Western River Basin District Director at IFI, stated: “The numbers of wild Atlantic salmon returning to our rivers is declining. The risk of over-fishing puts stocks in further jeopardy.

“Brown tag measures for salmon and sea trout are required on the lower Lee River to conserve stocks and avoid accidental over-harvesting.

“Where there is a modest harvestable surplus with a risk of over exploitation, this brown gill tag system is introduced to closely monitor the angling quotas.”

A total of 218 brown tags are available for the season. They will be distributed to anglers with a rod licence via four draws through the 2024 angling season.

Up to a quarter of the available number of brown tags can be issued at one time, therefore, 53 brown tags will be selected through the fourth online lottery on 24^th July 2024.

The measures are part of the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 signed into law by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, TD.

Anglers interested in entering the fourth draw can apply using IFI’s online link between 9 am on 30^th June and midnight on 21^st July 2024 only.

Anglers may only receive one Brown Tag per season for use on the R. Lee catchment.

Successful anglers who receive the tags, via the lottery system, place them on the fish – along with a blue tag as proof it was lawfully caught and may be retained for private use.

Anglers not allocated a brown tag are permitted to fish for salmon on a catch-and-release basis on the lower River Lee catchment, where the salmon is returned safely to the same waterbody.

Anglers must use catch-and-release methods only, involving single or double barbless hooks. Use of worms as bait is not permitted.

Full application details are available through fisheriesireland.ie, by phoning IFI’s Macroom office on (026) 41221, or by mailing [email protected]

Some good bags for Athy anglers in summer league at Oaklands

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Myles Kelly

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June 27, 2024

Athy and District Anglers fished the second match of their mini summer league at Oaklands over the weekend. There was some exciting fishing with the carp in willing form and a great day’s fishing was had by all.

Results

Chris, 69lbs 6ozs.
Ryan 64lbs 2ozs
Tommy 42lbs

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The club finished up the day with a big thank-you to James Murphy of Murphs Fishing Tackle in Carlow for his sponsorship and a big thanks to Oaklands lake for the lovely day out.