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All the colours and plenty of species for Killybegs Mariners at Rossnowlagh and beyond

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All the colours in the sunset. Always a good one in Rossnowlagh
All the colours in the sunset. Always a good one in Rossnowlagh

Killybegs Mariners SAC had some great fishing over the weekend. Read their reports below…

9 September: First league outing took place last night on the most popular beach in Donegal and unseasonal mid summer type heat had thousands enjoying the last dregs of summer as we landed to the location.
A decision was easy to make to delay the starting time and fishing could start as the bathers made for home or to sit on the dunes for the stunning sunset and lightening storm inland behind the hotel.

A great turnout of 29 anglers fished. First cast produced a fine double shot of 34cm and 31cm flounders for Darren and lots of weever fish all along taking the baits.

It’s a beach that could produce any species on its day and a large selection of species were caught including scad, whiting, pollack, trout, small eyed ray, weever and flounder.
Scores were close at the end but a small eyed ray along with flounders and whiting were enough to score 212pts winning €120 for Gavin Dorrian.

2nd place with flounders, weever, pollack and whiting for 201pts and €60 was John Cunningham

Longest flattie prize of €60 was a fine 36cm flounder for Ryan McGinley.

And the lucky peg draw at the end of €58 was won by Sean Harte.

Well done to all out enjoying the fishing. Next outing details will be on the messenger and here again.

10 September: Warm Donegal bay waters are alive with all forms of fish, whales and tuna at the moment and producing some great fishing for our shore anglers.
Float fishing light lines Cormac Burke had 5 garfish, pollack and wrasse while Cormac Duddy also had some fine wrasse to 45cm and a dragonette.

12 September: Killybegs Mariners Catch of the week this week goes to John Cunningham with a shore caught trigger fish. Thanks to Dave Ogilvie for tipping us off that shoals of triggers were on a local mark feeding in close John ventured the next morning and had a great scrap on a light rod float fishing the triggers. Great fishing.
trigger fish

Go Fishing…

Join the club

mariners logo Mariners sea angling club, Killybegs Co Donegal. The club runs a shore league and boat competitions and angling trips around Ireland doing the sport we love. Get in touch at www.facebook.com/mariner.sac

Next competition

Next league outing will take place this Friday September 15th on Narin strand with fishing from 19.30pm – 23.30pm.

Contact Noel to book your peg. New anglers always welcome to join in***.
Should be fun

***Non members can fish 2 league outings before they have to join the club. If a non member wins any of the prizes their winnings must be paid towards paying their membership.

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Ceri Jones talks trout with Colin Dodd on Lough Arrow

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making lunch

Lough Arrow anglers report…

Ceri Jones visited Lough Arrow for a few days at the end of August. This was his second visit to the lake, his first being 30 years ago when he was a teenager. That time, he only got to fish the lake for half a day. This time, he fished for a few hours on Saturday and all day Sunday with Club Secretary Colin Dodd.

ceri jones

It was fairly windy on Sunday with a good wave on the lake, but he had a good gillie in Colin, who is well used to these conditions. They landed a couple of trout each and rose many more. Lunchtime was spent in The Diamond with a fry and a chat with a few of the local anglers.

making lunch

Ceri recorded a podcast with Colin and hopes to fish Lough Arrow again, the next time during the mayfly. A big shout out to Colin for organising the visit.
Tight lines and bent rods!

Lough Arrow

Go fishing…

Trout fly fishing on Lough Arrow

Good trout and pike taking trolled lures on Derg

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pike

Senan Stanley, angler and YouTuber, has been been getting some great pike and trout fishing on Lough Derg recently…

pike

10 September: Productive morning on the jerkbaits! I hit the lake for a few hours before the thundery weather closed in, loads of activity. The best fish of the day came off just beside the boat but will find her next time!

Also absolutely wild to see a 30cm trout smash my 20cm line thru trout! Talk about predatory!

trout

07 September: Out testing some new lures before Predator Battle Ireland in two weeks! Fingers crossed we can find some similar brownies when we actually need them!

See more…

Check out all Senan’s catches at https://www.facebook.com/SenanS77  and https://www.youtube.com/@senanstanleyfishing

Pike fishing around Killaloe Angling Centre

Pike fishing around Portumna Angling Centre

Trout fishing on Lough Derg

 

Owenmore will fish well following next flood, rain forecast

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Owenmore upper lakes

Frank Maunsell from Owenmore River on the Dingle Peninsula is expecting a some good fishing before the end of the season and with rain forecast he shouldn’t have to wait too long…

11th Sept 2023: The hot spell is finally over and hopefully we will get a decent flood before the Season ends.

There are still a good share of fish in the estuary both salmon and seatrout and some of them will surely move in the next flood.

Go fishing…

Contact Frank Maunsell for up to the minute information on water levels, fishing conditions and runs of fish.

Telephone: 066 7139408 Mobile: 087 9476309

Email: enquiries@owenmorefishery.ie
Web: www.owenmorefishery.ie

Owenmore River

Pike angling adventure on Erne for West Cork bass guide

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Dave Norman of Angling Adventures West Cork took a trip to Lough Erne to fry his hand a fly fishing for pike at the weekend…

Something different – Had a great day of Pike Fly on Lough Erne with Pike On The Fly Guide – Stuart Wylie who I enjoyed meeting at the Irish Spring Angling Fair earlier this year.

Full Sun and Baking heat in the high twenties wasn’t what we were hoping for but with Stuart’s expert guiding we connected with and boated this beauty which turned the scales to 22lbs 6 oz!

If you’re looking for guided Pike Fly Fishing or are thinking about giving it a try I’d highly recommend Stuart’s guiding service.

Go Fishing…

logoOnly a few dates available now for end of September, early October is also filling up. I repeat this at the start of every season. If you are a fly angler and haven’t experienced catching these remarkable fish from big wild loughs then you are seriously missing out on (in my opinion) our greatest sporting fish…
–Stuart Wylie, Pike on the Fly Guide

Facebook: facebook.com/pikeontheflyguide
Email: pikeontheflyguide@gmail.com

Good fishing in bad conditions for Edenderry anglers

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IFI Staff
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Canal tench from Edenderry

When the Edenderry Coarse Angling Club organised their final club match of the season for a date in September, they didn’t think they would be fishing in 26°C of blistering sunshine, but that’s what we had to deal with on the day. With the Indian Summer, the venue on the Grand Canal had dropped a foot over the week and was running crystal clear – not god conditions for daytime fishing!

Despite the hot, bright weather, the low water and the clear water, the venue actually fishing well enough on the day, with bream and tench both helping to make up good weights for competing anglers. Top man on the day was Dean Murray with a lovely net one off the end.

Overall

  1. Dean Murray 17-00 Bream and Tench
  2. Tommy Burke 7-14 Roach
  3. Aidan Devoy 7-01 Tench
  4. Paul Kelly 6-06 mixed bag.

Please fish in a sustainable manner

Enfield and Edenderry Coarse Angling Centres

 

North Kildare Anglers finally fish their August Cup

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After a long delay, the North Kildare Trout and Salmon Anglers Association got to fish their August Cup / Ger Dunne Competition. Eleven competitors turned up at 8:45 to draw for beats.

The forecast was for the mist to rise, some sunny spells and a chance of thunderstorms – and the forecasters got it spot on. The morning mist rose and gave way to blue skies, around 12pm this was to change with heavy showers and the sound of thunder in the distance. By 1:30pm most anglers were in the midst of a Thunderstorm.

As anglers took shelter, they reviewed their mornings fishing and hoped for better fishing for the afternoon. Some anglers had a few rising trout ahead of them whilst others did not see a fish rise all day. Dry fly and nymphs seemed to be the preferred tactic. With the fishing very hard, every fish was gonna count.

David May reported that he got his last fish minutes before having to leave for the measure up. At the measure up, it seemed like the river didn’t give up its bounty of trout easy – but those that were landed were proper, butter-bellied, wild Irish trout. More talk was about the downpours then catching, it was gonna be a close call. In the end, only two anglers only had the bag of 4 fish measured and it was Robbie Winder who won the competition, this was Robbie’s 1st competition to win although he has been very close in the past.

The final results are as follows.

  • 1) Robbie Winder
  • 2) David May
  • 3) Joe Winder
  • 4) Alan Lawless

The club runs competitions on a catch, photo and release basis. They are open to all adult members and are a great way to improve your fishing.

Please fish in a sustainable manner

Menapia SAC go hound for hound in Wexford

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IFI Staff
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Members of Menapia SAC had one of those nights last weekend when club anglers just turned up for their competition at the right beach, on the right night, with the right bait. A remarkable night’s fishing saw 65 smoothies landed by club members, as the large packs of hounds in the area hunted down the crab and ragworm baits as soon as they hit the sand. In fact, apart from a single dogfish and one pin whiting, it was hounds all the way as bites came thick and fast for those competing.

The venue was Furlong’s Road, Kilmore Quay, a venue that can fish brilliantly under the right conditions.

Brendan Wall and Sean Carley were head to head throughout the match with Brendan pulling a double shot of decent hounds to pip Sean on the last cast. Third and fourth place was also a head to head between Simon Doyle and Joe Carley with Simon coming out on top by a handful of points.

Top three on the night was

  • Brendan Wall 1059 pts
  • Sean Carley 998 Pts
  • Simon Doyle 856 Pts

Longest fish was Jerry Carbery – 102cm Hound

Sea angling in South East Wexford

Please fish in a sustainable manner

 

Four first tope and long awaited wreck trip for Wicklow Boat Charters

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Skipper Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters welcomed four new angling guests in recent days, none of whom had landed a tope before. Not only did each of the newcomers get their first tope on the day, one of them – Chris Higgins – landed a specimen, a 45lb beauty.

Kit reckons there have been plenty of tope about this year along the Wicklow coast, with a good proportion of bigger ones amongst them. He also reckons that there are still good numbers of smoothies still about too, if you can get the peeler crab they prefer.

Kit also had a run offshore with Wicklow Bay SAC this week to target wreck fish. Despite very small neap tides, two hours of slack water and a short day they still got some quality ling, pollock, pouting, scad and some surprise huss.

Go fishing…

Wicklow Boat Charters

Address No.1 South Quay Wicklow Wicklow Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 6832179 Mobile Phone: +353 404 67031 Website: wicklowboatcharters.ie
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Bass still about, bigger tides on the way

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IFI Staff
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Cormac Walsh of The Lure Fishing Podcast reckons there have been some bass about over the last week, even though there have been some very slack tides. There was still a big ground swell present on the south east coast as a result of the previous big tides and this hampered his fishing on the usual coastal spots – meaning a trip up the estuary to search for a few fish.

Cormac ended up using the wrong rod by accident as he pulled it out out the van and didn’t realise until he was casting, when he was pleasantly surprised at how well the rod worked the surface lures. The rod is a Majorcraft 10ft, 7-45g he normally uses for heavier bass work. Although being 10ft, it only weighs 145g and is very smooth and slick to cast, so he really enjoyed using it.

There were a few fish around the top of the afternoon high tides with the Fishus Lures UK/Ireland Espitit doing the business once again.

New moon is nearly upon us again with some nice tides and decent weather – hopefully a few fish show up.

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