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Calm seas in Clew Bay for Newport SAC teams competition

By
Paul O'Reilly
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The Grainne Uaille Team were the overall winners of the recent J.Coffey sponsored Teams competition. The team members were presented with their prizes by Pat Moran (representing the main sponsor J.Coffey construction). From left Pat Moran Jnr (UK), Pat Moran Snr, David Moran, Declan Moran, James Moran

Newport SAC hosted their final competition of the season on Sunday, September 17th. This was a teams event which meant that the total number of fish caught by each of the 4 team members were combined together to calculate the overall winners. This was a tightly fought contest and in the end, the top two teams were only separated by 4 fish / 20 points.

The weather played its part and the event took place in the beautiful, calm seas of Clew Bay. Some of the boats moved during the designated fishing times to try to gain a better advantage over the others. Lines were up at the designated time of 4.30pm and all boats returned to Newport Quay where team members met to discuss their respective catches.

The prize presentation took place in the Grainne Uaille (as they were winners of last year’s local shield) and they also sponsored some hot food for the hungry anglers during the presentation). All of the prizes were presented by Pat Moran Jnr (representing the main sponsor – J.Coffey construction).

The results are as follows:

Winning Team – Team A (Grainne Uaile) — (Total Fish 49 & Total Points 300)
David Moran (26 Fish & 130 Points), Declan Moran (12 Fish & 85 Points), Pat Moran (6 Fish & 30 Points), James Moran (5 Fish & 55 Points)

Runner-Up Team – Team D (Gilvarry’s) — (Total Fish 52 & Total Points 280)
Shane Gilvarry (26 Fish & 130 Points), Joe McManamon (14 Fish & 90 Points), Paul Murphy (8 Fish & 40 Points), Robert Healey (4 Fish & 20 Points)

3rd Place Team – Team F (Abbvie) — (Total Fish 47 & Total Points 235)
Ed Kirby (18 Fish & 90 Points), Dave Fearson (12 Fish & 60 Points), Colin Loftus (10 Fish & 50 Points), Paul Ruddy (7 Fish & 35 Points)

4th Place Team – Team C (J. Coffey) — (Total Fish 40 & Total Points 220)
Sarah O’Brien & David Moran, Uk (13 Fish & 65 Points), Pat Moran (Jnr) (8 Fish & 60 Points), Jason Moran (6 Fish & 30 Points)

5th Place Team – Team B (Village Inn) — (Total Fish 36 & Total Points 210)
Anthony Masterson (14 Fish & 70 Points), Peter Coyne (9 Fish & 75 Points), Padraig Munnelly (8 Fish & 40 Points), Josie Barrett (5 Fish & 25 Points)

6th Place Team – Team E (Newport Mixed) — (Total Fish 34 & Total Points 185)
Declan Gallagher (15 Fish & 75 Points), Sean Fahy (7 Fish & 35 Points), Darragh McGee (6 Fish & 45 Points), Sean Kilroy (6 Fish & 30 Points)

7th Place Team – Team G (Mary’s of Mulranny) — (Total Fish 24 & Total Points 120)
Colleen Kennedy (7 Fish & 35 Points), Joseph O’Brien (7 Fish & 35 Points), Mary Pavey (5 Fish & 25 Points), Gareth Williams (5 Fish & 25 Points)

Local Shield: The local shield was won by the Grainne Uaille TEAM A – This ensures that next year’s presentation will once again take place in the Grainne Uaille.
Overall Individual Winner: David Moran & Shane Gilvarry (Total Fish 26 & Total Points 130)
Largest Fish: Caught by Declan Moran (Bullhuss – 38″)
Skipper of the Day: Reg Roynan (skipper of the Lady Helen).

Sea Fishing in Clew Bay

Great pike and perch fishing reported from Lough Derg

By
Myles Kelly
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Lough Derg pike

Lough Derg is a firm favourite with predator anglers and it’s no surprise why when you consider the number of 100cm plus pike landed by anglers there every year. Add to that the abundance of good sized perch and a healthy trout population there’s every reason to spend time on the lake throwing lures for whatever may bite.

The trout season may be over for another year, but with plenty of pike and perch action yet to come there’s no reason to stop fishing on this iconic lake. We join Paul Bourke for some angling updates…

Lough Derg pike

25 September: Love it when on the first drift of the morning, a green missile smashes your guests bait broadside… Fight was unreal from this fish. Was only 101 cms but punched above its size.

27 September: Just before storm Agnes hit Ed and myself managed to get a couple of chunky ones. Had to finish early too, just as they started to feed. Anyway, that’s fishing for you…

01 October: Short afternoon session today produced a couple of nice pike and 15 or so perch. Best pike going 106cms 99cms….

But wait there’s more…  Senan Stanley was also out over the weekend and marked the end of September with some epic perch fishing catching a number of fish to almost 40cm – a worthy Catch of the Week.

 

And lastly, anyone who has read the Irish Angling Update over the years knows that we are big on water safety, so we finish this report with some top class advice from Senan on lifejackets.

Go fishing…

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Pike fishing around Killaloe Angling Centre

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Pike fishing around Portumna Angling Centre

Newcomer blitzes the field at VDE Baggers match

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The VDE Baggers faced far more clement conditions at their match last weekend as calm, sunny weather replaced the near hurricane and rain of the previous outing. Anglers soon found that there was an ‘insane’ amount of roach all along the stretch and that decent bags were on the cards.

But it was newcomer Johhny Keith that romped home ahead of the usual favourites, with 250 fish on the whip for a whopping 18+ kg. Second was Aaron Nabc Hutchman, almost 6 kg lighter at 12.2, while Mick Carr was a further kilo behind on 11.21.

Please fish in a sustainable manner

New Rebels record and decent fishing despite fog at Monatrae

By
Myles Kelly
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Foggy day and Monatrae
Foggy day and Monatrae

Rebels SAC returned to Monatray for another session at the weekend. Everything was in threir favour, moon phase, tides, and even the bit of stir that most dread, but gets the REBELS fired up. Shane Olden reports..

Monatrae bay round 2

Right guy’s, another day down for the rebels in West Waterford saw the lads come back to right the wrong we had in the glorious weather a few weeks back.

On arrival the venue had plenty of storm blown weed on the shoreline with some interesting foreign objects in the mix. A frightening amount of plastics and buckets, and unfortunately 2 seal carcases. On the day we had 13 anglers fishing . Winds were S/SW and gusting to 32mph on and off which meant most if not all beaches would be unfishable.

Monatrae

As it was scheduled to fish the bay anyway today we didn’t mind one bit and held hope for some codling until a real nasty heavy sea faring fog blanketed the area. This is a change that’s never welcome at any time as it dampens fishing and most times shutting an area down to a blank. Not to be deterred, the rebels hunkered down and pushed on as there was points to be put on the board and some of the new guy’s showing good promise picking up high rankings. It is great to see lads learning the sport and coming on strong.

bass

First to find the fish and great to see him back out on the front line showing how it’s done was JIM COTTER with a coalie. He was followed by JACOB MURPHY with a bass. Next was JIM MELLIS JNR with a coalie. On again was JIM MELLIS SNR with a coalie as well. Keeping the pressure on, bringing a 38cm plaice and a new club record was JACOB MURPHY.

38cm flounder

NIALL FORREST was starting to pick up pace with a coalie followed by a pair of dog fish and putting in a great performance on only his 3rd comp ever attended and taking his place on the board again to keep the older more experienced REBELS under pressure.

NOAH TAHRAN was next to find fish ending up with a pair of dog fish to contribute to his over all placing on the master angler leader board . Unfortunately the phrase fail to prepare, prepare to fail came to mind as only 6 guy’s out of 13 were able to get fresh peeler crab on time for the day. Those without would have put forward a better show for the club and a better reflection of the venue if they had crab, so hopefully a lesson learned going forward for guys. None the less there was good heart and hunger shown for the sport and lads drove on regardless. Baits used on the day were crab, lug, black lug, rag worm, sandeel, mackerel and razor clam. 5 species entertained us in the form of bass, coalies, flounder, plaice and dogfish. Not to be snuffed at with the very heavy fog by any means, and I thought the lads did well to produce a variety of fish where normally a bad fog would spell out a blank.

Placings on the day were as follows

  • 1ST – JACOB MURPHY
  • 2ND – NIALL FORREST
  • 3RD – JIM COTTER
  • 4TH – NOAH TAHRAN
  • 5TH – JIM MELLIS JNR
  • 6TH – JIM MELLIS SNR

Thank you to all our followers , sponsors and friends of the club , and we look forward to another good report in 2 weeks time from the Youghal area and hopefully a better draw of fish . CATCH YOU ON THE NEXT ONE
UP THE REBELS

flounder

Go fishing…

Next competition

Our next comp out will be Sunday the 15th of October in youghal again , and as usual we are open for membership all year round , we are a friendly , helpful , experienced , educational club and all grades of anglers young or old , male or female are always welcome , some guys have rarely or never held a rod before they came to us , but have come a very long way with the club and seem to be enjoying it immensely along with new friends and comradery as nobody gets left behind and we look after everybody as an equal as they make their journey along the learning curve and soak up knowledge to build their capabilities.

Join the club

Rebels SACRebels SAC are based in Cork and are are always happy to welcome new members.

The REBEL COUNTY SEA ANGLERS will be open for membership through out the year and we can be contacted by , mobile 083 0198017, what’s app , messenger , fbook , and Instagram . Looking forward to the next comp already and hopefully some cod and ray to add to the usuals . Catch you on the next one ……… UP THE REBELS

Get in touch via their Facebook page at

https://www.facebook.com/rebelcountyseaanglingclub/

End of season salmon for Currane and Inny, sea trout open to 12 October

By
Myles Kelly
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currane

Vincent Appleby reports from Lough Currane…

currane
The Salmon Season maybe over tomorrow but we still have 12 day’s of C&R Sea Trout Fishing.

29/9/2023 As we all know tomorrow is the last day of the 2023 Salmon season, we all know what that means, yes you have it, it’s the traditional Bacon and Cabbage night in the Lobster Bar and all are welcome, so come on down and celebrate your catch with fine Bacon and Cabbage and finish it off with a fine pint in the Lobster Bar. Now today’s and yesterday’s action, I start with yesterday’s action on C&R River Inny, there were 3 Salmon caught fly yesterday, We stay on the Bank of the C&R River Inny and for good reason because there was four Salmon caught on the fly today. Now we head for the Big Lake where some great action in all departments, there was 3 Salmon caught and released on the fly, in the trolling department there was one Salmon caught and released, there were also a nice few Trout caught on the drift and the troll. Now we head upstream to the Commeragh River, they say the early bird catches the worm, there was one enthusiastic Salmon angler fishing on the Commeragh at 7 am, sadly I take it that the angler’s line was slack going by my WhatsApple. Wind W light followed by good cloud cover. Staying with the weather Kerry is on a yellow rain warning tomorrow, the amount forecasted for the Waterville Fishery 21.4mm.

30/9/23 We start this last day of the Salmon Season on an early morning text and a furious angler who saw wormers on the Inny. Now for the rest of today’s action we start on the lake. C&R Currane angler Mr. Brian O’Rourke had 2 seatrout followed by 6 brownies on the fly. Now we head across the valley to the C&R River Inny where there was some good action, going by the C&R Inny farmer who reports that four C&R Inny fly anglers had one Salmon each.

rainbow trout

Now my catch of the day goes to Anglers who had to go to a stock lake because Lough Currane was too rough. So they headed out looking for some action and they found it at the end of a Rainbow as you can see by the photo.

Now we head for the end of the Salmon Season party in the Lobster Bar and the crack was good especially when Robert was presented with the wooden spoon for the 2023 Salmon Season, one Currane angler said he’s making a habit of it, all I can say is Robert, good luck for the 2024 season and that goes for all the Waterville Fishery anglers. I finish the 2023 Salmon season on the Bacon and Cabbage party by saying on behalf of all the Currane anglers and non-anglers, a big thank you to the Lobster Bar Management and all their staff for a great night out. Wind SSE and veered SSW fresh to strong with gusts up to 69 Km/h followed heavy rain in the morning.

 1/10/2023 The wild Trout Currane anglers were all quiet going by my WhatsApple, but don’t be surprised if there is an update. Wind West veered SW light to fresh followed by reasonable cloud cover. Amount of rainfall yesterday was 14.6 mm.

2/10/2023 Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of watervilleboats@gmail.com reports there were a few Trout caught on the drift and going back to yesterday’s manipulations there were a good few Trout caught on the drift and my apologies in the delay on reporting yesterday’s catches and yes guilty as charged. Wind light and variable WSW followed by reasonable cloud cover.

3/10/2023 The Wild Currane Trout Anglers flies and their lines were all slack this day, so you can understand why my WhatsApple was all quiet and if this is false news I will update you in tomorrow’s notes. Wind WNW veered West late this afternoon, followed by the odd heavy shower.

Vincent Appleby
Eureka Lodge, Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry.
Telephone: +353 (0) 87 207 4882
E-mail:salmonandseatrout@gmail.com
Web: www.salmonandseatrout.com

Sea Trout – Catch and release only

Inland Fisheries Ireland wishes to remind anglers that the Conservation of Sea Trout (No.7 or Kerry District) Waterville Area Bye-Law No. 971 of 2019 remains in effect. This Bye-law prohibits the retention and possession of any sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) taken by any fishing engine or by rod and line in the Waterville area i.e. that part of the sea eastward of a line drawn from the most westerly point of Bolus Head to the most westerly point of Lamb’s Head and to all the waters discharging in to it.

The Bye-Law mainly affects seatrout fishing on :-

  • the river Inny (Knockmoyle) and its tributaries
  • the waters of the Waterville system, including the Waterville River, Lough Currane, the Cummeragh River and all their tributary rivers and lakes
  • the waters of Ballinskelligs Bay

FLEKSI

A new online survey has been developed by IFI for the Currane catchment to gather anglers’ knowledge – the survey method called FLEKSI was developed by IFI to help give an insight into the status of the fishery. Currane Anglers are needed for Citizen Science survey to examine fish stocks

Go fishing…

Find out more about Lough Currane…

The rivers and lakes of Waterville drain a large catchment and are regarded by many as the foremost Salmon and Sea-Trout fishery in the country. The lake system is well developed with access to boats and guides being readily available to the tourist angler. The Sea-Trout caught here are renowned for their size and quantity. For more details see:

Waterville lakes and river system

Guides and boat hire

Fishing with Dom

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Fly Fishing on Lough Currane

Address Termons Waterville Kerry Ireland Mobile Phone: +353(0) 87 922 8659 Phone: +353(0) 66 9474146 Website: flyfishingatloughcurrane.com
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Lakelands Farm

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Neil O’Shea

Address Caherbarna Waterville Kerry Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 9942792 Phone: +353 66 9474527 Website: oshealoughcurrane.com
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Old Daly’s Supermarket & Filling Station

Address Murreigh Waterville V23 X459 Ireland Mobile Phone: +353669474842 Website: dalysfoodstore.ie
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Salmon & Sea Trout Fishing

Address Eureka Lodge Caherdaniel West Waterville Kerry V23 XD63 Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 2074882 Website: salmonandseatrout.com
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Waterville Boats

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Irish team in acrion at World Boat Lure Championships

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IFI Staff
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Perch

 

Lure Angling Team Ireland are attending the World Championships in Riga, Latvia this week. Competing in pairs the squad members Daniel Nesbitt & Danny Colleran, and Aidan O’Connor & Krzystof Sibiga who qualified for their place on the team are new to the international scene and are being guided by David Dennis as they commenced two days of official training today.

With Zander a new species for some the first day has gone well with all species pike, zander and perch caught.

Zander

Tomorrow will see more exploration with the competition staged on the Lielupe and Daugava rivers, which flow through the heart of the city from the Gulf of Riga, with the fishing area also encompassing lakes Kisezers, Juglas ezers, Lielais Baltezers, and Mazais Baltezers.

Perch

The championships will take place on Thursday 5th, Friday 6th and Saturday 7th October. You can follow their efforts at https://www.facebook.com/predatorfishingireland/ throughout the week.

Zander
Riga

2024 Team Qualifiers

Qualifiers are now open for the 2024 squad with the NCFFI hosting the Championships in Ireland see https://www.ncffi.ie/2024-boat-team-qualifiers/

The next round takes place on the Upper Erne 21/22October and also serves as the All Ireland Lure Angling Championships – book in here https://www.ncffi.ie/events/all-ireland-lure-angling-championship/

PB pike for Power at Belturbet

By
Myles Kelly
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pike

Ger Power was back at Belturbet over the weekend. this time he was targeting bigger fish having decided to try for pike.

The weather made fishing fairly tough over the weekend, but Ger stuck it out and managed to land a beautiful 22Lb pike. The fish fell for a large lure – a line through trout. And what made it all better was that it was his PB.

pike

Go Fishing…

BELTURBET

Belturbet
The weather was bright and sunny and dull and wet, depending on when you looked!

Bombarda does the business in Belmullet

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Brendan Harvey and a group of friends have been travelling to Belmullet for the past few years to fish a species competition in memory of a friend who has passed. This year they spent four days in the area shore fishing on a number of marks and they had some nice fishing including a few conger to 20lb. Brendan and his friend Anto decided to try something new on this trip and rigged up a Bombarda float with a sandeel fly imitation. And it only took 10 minutes for the technique to pay off, as a hungry pollack smashed the fly. It’s always great when a new technique pays off, and hopefully we’ll hear more from Brendan and the guys when they are back in Belmullet next year.

 

Bombarda does the job for Belmullet pollack

Michael Farry wins McCarthy Cup on Lough O’Flynn

By
Myles Kelly
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winners
Michael McDermott, Daniel McDermott (club Sec) presenting winner Michael Farry with McCarthy Cup, Gary Madden (club Treasurer) Shane Stephens.

Joe Fitzharris reports on well attended McCarthy Cup, fished on Sunday,

Lake O’Flynn & District Anglers held their last event of the year on Sunday 1-st Oct. This is the clubs confined club members competition and is gratefully sponsored by Robert Flynn Castlerea and Gowan & Bradshaw Galway. The competition was reasonably well supported and returned a popular winner in Michael Farry with a good Fish weighing  2 – lb -15 .0 oz.

Results

  • 1-st Michael Farry, 2- lb 15.0 oz. winner of McCarthy Cup (2023)
  • 2-nd  John Gaffey, 2- lb 11.6 oz.
  • 3-rd John Burke, 2 – lb 10.0 oz.
  • 4-th Mark Malone, 2 – lb 06.2 oz.
winners
Michael McDermott, Daniel McDermott (club Sec) presenting winner Michael Farry with McCarthy Cup, Gary Madden (club Treasurer) Shane Stephens.

Go Fishing

Lough O’Flynn, Co. Roscommon

Piscari-Fly Newsletter 3 October 2023

By
IFI Staff
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How’s the Fishing?

So the river season ended with floods and unfishable conditions on the Nore and most other rivers in this area. The stocky season has started a bit early for us. Mark had a fantastic day at Adaire Springs recently. Fish were high up feeding on the surface when he arrived, and found Plenty of action through out the day. Small black drys, Diawl bachs and red or olive apps worms pulled all on a fast or slow intermediate done the trick.

A mix of retrieves worked through out the day and the apps fished on a single fly set up with a 15 foot leader brought back in short sharp pulls was the most successful of all tried set ups. Big thanks to Ned for another great day out on his lake.

Stay tuned as we spend the winter months travelling around Ireland fishing the bank venues and keeping you up to date on what’s working and where’s fishing.

Check out www.piscari-fly.com for all your bank fishing needs for this coming winter season. For the above flies click here Red app Worm, Olive app Worm​

For more information and details about where to fish and how venues are fishing feel free to drop me a line piscarifly@gmail.com.

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

What’s new

 

Piscari Pine Squirrel Dubbing

We have a lot of new and exciting dubbings coming your way really soon for the tying season. Here is a nice spikey fine squirrel dubbing, ideal for bodies and thoraxes. I use this a lot on my nymphs and brushes out really well on the thorax.

Check it out here​

Piscari Travels

We have landed back home after a great 2 weeks in Kamloops BC. I can tell you these competitions are full on and we spent a lot of the time on the road a lot, practicing, researching and trying to figure out the different venues. We drove around 3000 km over the 2 weeks and most mornings were up at 4amish. It was a massive effort from the lads. We all had an amazing experience and some cracking fishing. Personally I gained a huge amount of knowledge through out the comp and practice, and I look forward to sharing this with you all over the winter months.

So it was a 5th place finish for Team Ireland at the Fips Mouche World Masters Fly Fishing Championships in the end, we had ourselves in the medals on two occasions over the 5 days with the help of some session wins and good placings. However it was not meant to be and from experience at these kind of comps a team needs absolutely everything to go in there favour to get over the line.

As the captain of the Irish Team I am so proud of the collective effort made by each person and the commitment to the teams performance….well done to Team Ireland, Donal Monaghan, Campbell Baird, Roger Fowler, John Lalor and Brian Russell.

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What’s coming

Our Live fly tying shows will be returning this Oct till March, dont miss a great night, every Sat night with lots of live chat, fly tying, fly fishing, giveaways and top tips.

 

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.

Piscari-Fly, Woolengrange, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, R95 Y860, Ireland, 0879787040

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