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Salmon and trout courses from Glenda Powell, dates for your diary

By
Myles Kelly
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Glenda Powell

Glenda Powell has some great opportunities for anglers looking to get started in salmon angling, fine tune their cast and more…

Below are some notes for the diary on upcoming courses and events for the remainder of 2023 and 2024.

The Irish Fly Fair 18th & 19th November – This Weekend

Come and support the hardworking team who put together a wonderful show each year.  We are looking forward to the show and seeing you there.

Traditional Blackwater Opening Day 1st February 2024

Our annual opening day is on the 1st February at Blackwater Salmon Fishery on the River Blackwater in Ireland and all are welcome to bless the river, get in some casting practice, go fishing and meet some friends. The cost is €25,  food will be provided on the day and please book your place as we have limited space for this day.

Skagit Casting/Fishing Course 10th February 2024

Our popular Skagit Casting/Fishing Course with Glenda Powell and Noel Fitzmaurice teaching will be held at the Blackwater Salmon Fishery on the 10th February and all levels of casting ability are welcome.  6 places are available, all equipment can be provided at no extra cost, lunch will also be provided and the cost is €175 per person.

Spey Casting/Fishing Course Beginners/Improvers 17th February

Our Beginners/Improvers Spey Casting/fishing Course with Glenda Powell and Noel Fitzmaurice teaching will be held at the Blackwater Salmon Fishery on the 17th February and we have 6 places available on this course.  All equipment can be provided at no extra cost, lunch will also be provided and the cost is €175 per person.

Wet Fly Fishing for Trout Course 9th March 2024

Last year we held a Wet Fly Fishing Course for Trout with Glenda Powell, Noel Fitzmaurice and Jimmy Tyrell teaching and was a great success.  In 2024 we plan to run another course and the date is 9th March, all equipment can be provided if required, all levels catered for and beginners are most welcome, lunch will also be provided. The cost is €200 for the day and we have 8 places available.

Hyde Park Casting Practice Meeting 23rd November 12-3pm

Meeting at the Speke Monument please bring your rod. (Free)

Fish Live Learn Zoom meeting 2nd December 2023

Fish Live Learn Members 2nd December 2023 at 7pm (FLL membership required – details below)

Utrecht Angling Show 7th December 2023

Utrecht Casting Practice Meeting 7th December 2023

Please get in touch for more information.

Fish Live Learn casting practice December 9th 2023

River Blackwater Ireland casting practice meeting December 9th 2023. (FLL membership required – details below)

Please send an email or message to book any of the above and I look forward to spending some time with you all and thank each and every one of you who puts your trust and heart in what we do.

Slainte an bhradain  (Health of the Salmon Upon You)

Glenda
00353 (0) 872351260
glenda@glendapowellguiding.com
Noel
00353 (0) 857220923
http://glendapowellfishing.com

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Fish-Live-Learn with Glenda Powell online Newsletter

Fish-Live-Learn with Glenda Powell is an online monthly newsletter consisting of both video and written content.  We hold gatherings to help people learn to fly fish and improving their skills, offer advice, have fun, and many of our members are starting to send us content for our newsletter.  We cover game angling with the fly, and we have members from all around the world. We started Fish-Live-Learn in March 2021 and our membership is growing.


In one of our interviews we are joined by Michael Sheehan who talks about Ireland’s largest recorded salmon.

This month we are going to meet some of our members in Hyde Park in London on 23rd November at the Speke Monument from noon to 2pm to have a chat and some casting practice. Also we will hold a meet in the Netherlands in early December and plan to meet at Kilmurry on the River Blackwater on 9th December for some casting tuition.  All these events are included in the cost of your membership and hope some of our members can attend. We are also holding a Zoom meeting on the 2nd December at 7pm.

Each month there are 5 sections that cover fly fishing and there are always interesting interviews with people in our industry, places of interest of where to fish, and also tuition videos from myself and others.  We often have one piece on food of the area we are visiting and another piece of interest from the locality.  I am always at the end of the phone or email to help in whatever questions you may have about learning, techniques and tackle advice or simply to have a chat.  The cost of membership is €36 per year.
In this months issue:

  • For the Record  – Irelands’ Record Salmon Michael Sheehan
  • Fly Casting Principles – Style over Substance
  • Going Live – Upcoming Zoom Calls & Meets in London and Utrecht.
  • Albright Knot – Joining backing to fly line
  • Pick Up/Lay Down – The fundamentals
  • Making a Point – The often overlooked Hook Sharpener
  • A Pie to Try – Amazing Pork & Apple Pie

If you wish to subscribe or give as a gift, then you can subscribe here or contact me for further details.
https://glendapowellfishing.com/products/

Go fishing…

Blackwater Salmon Fishery

Address Upper Kilmurry Cork Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 235 1260 Website: blackwatersalmonfishery.com
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Super pike session for Lawrence

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IFI Staff
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22lbs 4oz hungry hen fish!

Lawrence Peile from Co. Armagh was in touch to report a cracking pike session over the weekend.

There was a brief weather window at the weekend before Storm Debi arrived, so out came the tackle, and fortunately the pike were in obliging mood. The day started with an early take which managed to pinch my whole herring before I struck even though it was tied on! Shortly after this I hooked into a 26lbs pike.

Lawrence with his 26lbs opener

No sooner had I photographed and returned her than I had another run which resulted in a 22lbs 4oz fish. This had a large tail sticking out of its throat which I think was a bream and if you look closely at the photograph you can see a bulge on the flank. Two 20’s in the space of 10 minutes and happy as Larry!

22lbs 4oz hungry hen fish!

Two other takes followed as the day progressed resulting in a 16 and an 18lbs 8 oz.

What a day Lawrence, and thanks for the report!

Piscari-Fly Newsletter 14 November 2014

By
IFI Staff
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How’s the Fishing?

So this week we got our first pike session out of the way. Myself and Mark headed off up to Kildare on the canals in search of some jack pike, and maybe in search of something bigger. It was a cold day, with very mixed conditions. We met several Jack pike biggest up to 4lb. Only landing a few of the fish we met. Using 10ft & 7wt rod to chuck these pike flys we tied up, along with 30lb shock leader and wire trace. A easy set up to try something new during the off season.

On Sunday, Myself & Mark fished the Leinster Bank Qualifiers for 2023, on Laois Angling Center. We both Qualified with 10 fish each, which allows us to head to National Banks in 2024 to try qualify for National team. Conditions were good, after a wet Saturday. Fish were active throughout the day. Catching on our Piscari Olive Minkie pattern using our own Olive Minkie strips & small dries. Congratulations to the prize winners during the day and to Laois angling center for hosting a great event.

For more information and details about where to fish drop me a line piscarifly@gmail.com.

What’s New?

 

Traper Black Pike Fly Rods

Now in stock. If you are into your pike fly fishing then you have to check out these awesome fly rods from Traper. Specialist rod for pike and other large predators.

Check it out: https://piscari-fly.com/collections/traper-black-pike-rod/

 

Piscari Travels

Join the Club to keep up to date with the lads fishing travels. This week they will be heading to the Shannon Blueway Canal in Co.Leitrim to target some pike and get some good action in. So make sure to subcribe and join the action and see how we get on.

What’s Happening?

Make sure to stay tuned with us on Piscari-fly club and check out on constant new content we will be adding each week of our fishing, fly-ftying, tackle talk and much more.

Dont forget to watch our Saturday Night Live Show Every Week on our Facebook and Youtube channel.

 

About us

Based on the River Nore just outside Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. Piscari-Fly is a growing Fly Tying and Fly-Fishing business with a vast amount of experience and knowledge. If there is ever anything I can do to make my service better for you please feel free to suggest it to me and I’ll gladly try my best to accommodate your requests. Thanks again. Peter Driver.

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Thanks for the support its greatly appreciated

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Irish Fly Fair – Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November

By
Paul O'Reilly
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A reminder to all the fly fishers and fly tiers out there that the Irish Fly Fair will take place this coming weekend at the Killyhevlin hotel in Enniskillen. The fair will open from 10.00 – 17.00 on Saturday and 10.00 – 16.30 on Sunday.

Visitors will have the opportunity to watch the best international fly-dressers practise their art, whilst champion fly-casters will be available to demonstrate and advise on fly-casting techniques and fly-fishing tactics.

As usual, there will be a series of talks and seminars from expert anglers on a wide range of interesting angling-related topics and of course, a massive range of top quality trade stands selling everything the fly angler and fly dresser needs.

To encourage the youth into the sport there is the annual Irish Fly Fair Fly dressing & Fun Fly Casting competitions.

For more information, check out the Irish Fly Fair Facebook page or go to https://www.irishflyfair.com/index.html 

Nicholas Madden wins 3rd round of Annamoe Winter League

By
Myles Kelly
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Annamoe

Brian McNally reports on the third match in the Annamoe Trout Fisheries Fly Fishing Winter League….

Twenty anglers competed over four hours in the third Qualifying Heat last Saturday 11th November.

It was a bright cool calm day with the temperature at 6°C.

The trout landed were mostly caught on intermediate lines. Buzzers, Blood Worms and Apts were a good choice on the day. A total of fifty eight fish were landed, measured and returned safely back into the lake. Water temperatures were 7°C.

Results

  • 1st. Nicholas Madden 9 trout
  • 2nd. Karl Elliott. 7 trout.
  • 3rd. Tommy Russell.5 trout
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Nicholas Madden caught 9 trout to win the 3rd round of the winter league

Next heat will be held on 25th November.

Enquiries to Brian Nally at 0862598563.

Go Fishing…

The Fishery is open for Fly Fishing every day from 10 am until dusk.

Annamoe Trout Fishery

Address Glebe Annamoe Wicklow Ireland Mobile Phone: +353862598563 Phone: +35340445470 Website: annamoetroutfishery.com
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Southern County tackle test for South East Casting

By
Paul O'Reilly
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This report in from Dan O’Neill of South East Casting:

With the Irish Fly Fair only a few days away, I have been casting more than usual and getting into the spirit to attend this wonderful event. Looking at the line ups and talent that will be there gives a feeling of excitement to me as well as a slightly nervous feel. Many of the exhibitors are anglers and tiers that I studied and watched videos on for my APGAI assessment, so to be included in the line up with them was a dream come true for me.

I decided to take a little break from just casting as I received the Cadence 10ft 5wt last week and wanted to hook some trout on this rod and test its fish playing capabilities and how it performed in the field. As with all Cadence rods, it was extremely light, so I really looked forward to hitting a Southern County Rainbow.

I recently watched Peter from Piscari Fly tie up some damsels and beetles, so I decided to copy these patterns and give them a go. The fish today were hard to come by with the odd one every now and again leaping as if to say, “we are here!”. There was a slightly sheltered spot near the end of the lake, it was sheltered by a high grassy bank. I felt that with the wind and a high grassy bank surely the odd beetle may be blown in for a swim.

As I made my way over to the spot, I didn’t see much activity to give me encouragement, but don’t judge a book and all that…

I had been there for 10-15mins, making a number of casts to search the whole area, when the line went tight and I lifted into a nice fish. The fish gave all indications of being quite large, swimming about quite deep with the odd couple of strong head thumps. The rod performed very well and the power in the butt section was perfect when I needed to add pressure to this fish. Eventually the fish came to the net which was a great relief. It was a lovely rainbow, carrying a couple of scars and shade over one eye. Not fully sure about my theory of using the beetle near a windy grassy bank, it works with terrestrial patterns on the Nore for me when the wind is blowing from the bank into the river, maybe there is something in it, or else it could be complete coincidence, the mystery keeps me trying anyway.

Irish Fly Fair Enniskillen

I am absolutely delighted to be attending the event, I will be at the Cadence stand where you can try before you buy, stop by to say hello and try one of the rods with me. I am also giving one on one tuition with APGAI Ireland as are some of our other members, this is a wonderful opportunity make sure to try stop by. Finally, I will be giving a casting demo from 14.30 – 15.00 both days and look forward to seeing some of you there. It is due to be a fantastic weekend, take a look at the Irish Fly Fair website or Facebook for the lineup.

Classes / guided trips 2024

I am now taking bookings for the 2024 season, I will be running masterclasses, casting clinics, guided trips on the River Nore and Kings River. For further information contact me by email, Phone or Facebook.

Trout Fishing Ireland

Address Thomastown Kilkenny Ireland Mobile Phone: +353857652751 Website: Trout Fishing Ireland
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Fly Tying Tutorial: An Irish Lough Mayfly with Jackie Mahon and Tom Sullivan

By
Myles Kelly
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In this video Jackie Mahon ties a CDC Mayfly dry pattern with Tom Sullivan for fishing the Irish Lough Mayfly hatches. While this will perform well on Lough Corrib, Arrow, Mask, Sheelin and Melvin it would also be an excellent option for river mayfly as well. The blended dubbing for the body paired with the bi-color CDC for the wing make it an extremely realistic pattern. When fishing it, Jackie recommends only applying floatant to the top of the fly and the wing. That way it will sit a bit lower in the surface film and be more likely to fool picky fish.

For more details about the materials and hooks used see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cucO1FCkgaM

Go fishing…

Jackie Mahon

Jackie Mahon Flies and Guiding

Address Barnadearg Grange Sligo F91HW68 Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 9222458 Website: jackiemahonguiding.com
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Tom Doc Sullivan

Tom Doc Fishing and Guiding

Address Dooras Cornamona Galway F12 K443 Ireland Phone: +353 87 611 3933 Website: tomdoc.com
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Jackie Mahon is a full time fly fishing guide on the West Coast of Ireland, with a specific focus on Lough Arrow and Lough Melvin. He is also an exceptional fly tyer, and came on as a Signature Tyer for Fulling Mill last year. You can see all of his patterns here: https://www.fullingmill.co.uk/Product…

Tom ‘Doc’ Sullivan is a fly fishing guide, and the Fulling Mill Sales Agent in Ireland. He primarily guides and fishes on the Lough Corrib system. Tom is an excellent fly tyer, and has been a Signature Tyer with Fulling Mill for many years. You can find his patterns here on our website: https://www.fullingmill.co.uk/Product..

A tale of two end pegs at O’Briensbridge

By
Myles Kelly
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O'Briensbridge
O'Briensbridge

Munster Coarse anglers report on their second match of their winter league…

Round Two of our winter league was fished at the O’Briensbridge rowing course. The river was back at summer levels and with little flow it was a day to draw the early pegs where the fish seem to have settled. That was how it worked for all except for Morgan who on the furthest away end peg caught all day and had a well deserved 2nd place with 10lb 12oz.

Top man was Clive on peg one who fished the pole all day and finished up with a magnificent 16lb 13oz.

Third was Steve fishing the feeder at distance for his 10lb 4oz.

Fish of the day goes to Ian who was heading for the wooden spoon when in the last 10 minutes he caught the stretch’s pet hybrid who came to the scales at just short of 5lb, gaining him a valuable 5 points. From Zero to Hero with one fish well done Ian.

Munster Coarse Anglers Winter League Round 2 results

Go fishing…

Remaining dates for this year’s winter league

  • Nov.26th
  • Dec.17 ( fur &feather)
  • Jan 7th
  • Jan 28th
  • Feb 11th
  • March 10th
  • Drop 2 results

The two day event be held at O’Briensbridge 29th 30th Oct Bank Holiday weekend has been postponed due to high water.

The venues will be decided nearer the dates as water levels are still high on the Clare lakes, number will be restricted

Join the club…

munster coarse anglers logoAnyone who would like to fish the Munster Coarse Anglers Winter League can contact them by commenting on their Facebook post

Munster Coarse Angling Club are affiliated to the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI the National Governing body for coarse and predator fishing and .
www.ncffi.ie

O’Briens Bridge Coarse Angling Centre

Irish Angling Update 🎣 10 November 2023

By
Myles Kelly
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Most of the country was relatively dry over the last week with the exception of the south west which saw nearly twice the normal rainfall amounts. In fact, most anglers outside of Kerry would have been commenting on how sunny it was. So it should come as no surprise that there’s a bit of something for everyone in this week’s Irish Angling Update…

Starting with coarse fishing, Athy & District Anglers fished the second leg of their winter league at the weekend. It was a far cry from round one which was fished in summer sunshine at the start of last month. The fishing was good enough though with roach feeding well in the flood conditions and Ollie Flynn took top spot with 9lb 14ozs. Staying in the south east, Oaklands also fished the second leg of their winter league at the weekend. Leo Lynch did well to take first place with 72.510kg.

To the north east now where CM Lakelands fished a club match on Annaherrin Lough in Cavan. It was a day for small fish and Rimantas Kondrakas won the match with nearly 100 roach, perch and skimmers for 8kg. A little further north, VDE Baggers headed to the Movanagher Canal for the fourth match of their Winter League. Despite a lot of topping roach good fishing did not materialise but Aaron Hutchman still won comfortably with creditable 8.8kg.

Aaron Hutchman on the Moyvanagher Canal
Aaron Hutchman on the Moyvanagher Canal

Pike angling now and we start with two great reports from junior anglers. First we have a triumphant Ben O’Brien who caught a double figure pike with his first cast on the Rinn River at the weekend. This smashing pike wins Catch of the Week. Next we have Anthony O’Neill, well known to readers of the Update, who had some great pike fishing in Cavan catching lots of fish with guide Ronan Murray of Irish Pike Fishing Guides.

Meanwhile reporting from Lough Derg, Senan Stanley shares his pike set up in a great video, while Karoly Gyorfi shows what to do if you accidently catch a trout this winter while pike fishing. Continuing up the Shannon system our next stop is at Melview Lodge where Belgian anglers caught 163 pike despite high water levels and a UK angler had plenty of pike to over 20lb. We finish our journey at Boyle with a group of very happy Italian anglers who enjoyed super fishing with Bodo Funke of Angling Services Ireland.

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Longford pike for Belgian angler JP

Competition time – Anyone interested in a great day out pike fishing should hold the date of 26th November free, as Newbridge District Pike Anglers are holding their annual open pike competition at Poulaphouca Lake (aka Blessington) on that date.

In sea angling news Chris O’Sullivan, The Inshore Angler, returns to the beaches of Kerry where he’s surf casting for bass and flounder. Meanwhile anglers charter boat fishing with John Fleming on Galway Bay enjoyed catching a mix of fish over reefs. To Donegal now where anglers  aboard the Fiona Tee enjoyed some great fishing for ling, cod and pollack. Shore anglers also did well in the Killybegs area where the Mariners club caught flounder, bass, dogs, pollack, coley and whiting in a night session at the weekend. The Irish senior men’s team are in action this week at the World Shore Angling Championship, which is being held in Sicily. Today is the last day of the competition – we hope it goes well for them. In podcast news the Lure Fishing Podcast is back and this week host Cormac Walsh is talking to Pat Gahan, a vastly experienced boat angler based out of Kilmore Quay in Wexford. To wrap up the sea angling report we remind everyone that the bluefin tuna season closes on the 12th of November.

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An unexpected bass for the Killybegs Mariners in Donegal.

For trout anglers we have a report from the latest AWOL match which was fished at Laois Angling Centre and won by Denis Goulding with 13 rainbow trout. We also have some great fly tying content. Jackie Mahon ties a Claret Dabbler with Tom Doc Sullivan and Peter Driver has lots of updates in his newsletter including details of his live fly tying show which is on every Saturday at 8.30pm.

Finally, for salmon anglers we have two items of interest. First off Glenda Powell is offering hosted fishing and casting instruction at Careysville next year. For those of you who enjoy a good podcast why not listen to Daire Whelan and Tom Doc Sullivan of Ireland on the Fly talk to John Murphy from Salmon Watch Ireland about the impact of salmon cages on salmon and sea trout fisheries here.

And now the weather…

Saturday will begin cold with fog in some areas, while others will have sunshine. Highs of 8 to 11°C and mostly dry with rain in the far southwest later in the evening. Rather wet and windy weather expected on Sunday as a band of rain moves over from the south early in the morning, extending to all areas by midday. The rain will clear to showers as blustery southeast winds change southwesterly in the afternoon. Highs of 10 to 13°C. Next week will start dull, wet and blustery with highest temperatures of 10 to 14°C and Tuesday will be much the same. There are small craft warnings in place today and Saturday, so as ever make sure to check the forecast before going afloat and if you’re going to sea, don’t forget to check the tides.

That’s it for this week’s Irish angling Update, safe fishing to all and tight lines, especially here in Ireland.

IFI Staff
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      Anglers from Belgium and the UK get great fishing at Melview Lodge

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      Shane O'Reilly
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      pike
      J.P was not the only one that stopped for lunch.

      Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge reports on a great week’s pike fishing for visitors from Belgium and the UK:

      163 Pike for Belgium anglers despite high water levels

      Regular anglers from Belgium J.P, Nick, Alain and Johan were over for their third time this year staying with host and guide Kevin from Melview Fishing Lodge in Longford.

      Nick has one from the bank on deadbait.

      When they arrived the water levels were very high, but they were not going to let that put them off of their Pike fishing trip as they had experienced this many times here before in the past.

      J.P was not the only one who stopped for lunch.

      They managed 163 Pike during their week’s stay. Trolling, casting and dead baiting all produced for them and it finished up a great week for them despite the poor weather conditions. Well done guys and look forward to seeing you again in March 2024.

      UK Pike angler Steve over for his second Pike trip this year.

      Steve Gilby from the UK was at Melview Fishing Lodge once again for another Pike fishing trip to stay with host and guide Kevin, Steve was last here in February of this year and had a great time when he managed to catch some cracking fish to over 20lb.

      Steve with his first

      This time around the conditions were a little different for him with high water levels, but this didn’t put him off and using deadbaits he managed plenty of pike to 85 / 90 cm. Well done Steve; looking forward to seeing you again in February.

      Dead baits working well for Steve.

      ALL FISH RETURNED UNHARMED.

      Please fish in a sustainable manner

      Go Fishing

      Kevin Lyons – Melview LodgeDrumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Longford, Co. Longford
      Tel:+353(0)43-33-45061 Mobile:+353(0)87-268-7441
      E-mail: info@melviewlodge.com Web: www.melviewlodge.com

      Kevin has over 30 years experience of fishing in Ireland and is happy to offer a guided tour on your arrival, and to advise where the on-form waters in the area are. We can arrange your bait order so it’s here when you arrive. Melview offers free use of 17ft lake boats with engines to our guests (pay fuel only) and Kevin is happy to assist with any pre-baiting requests. Maps and other information regarding fishing are also available.

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