Kit Dunne from Wicklow Boat Charters has been putting in the hours during this settled spell with a few different crews tackling up for tope and mixed species. First up were a party from Techcom who got some nice tope, dogfish, wrasse, pollock, scad and plenty of mackerel.
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In the next group Leroy McIlroy got himself a specimen. The big push from the spring tides made things tough, but the group got three runs – one dropped the bait, one got ‘got’ by a nuisance seal and the third one – a quality fish – stuck.
Specimen
Wicklow Bay SAC had another youth session last Friday with mackerel, Ballan wrasse, Corking wrasse and a teeny bream to test the drag for skipper Kit. Kit reports that there was great interest from the kids and some budding anglers in the club are coming along very well.
Kit has his target set as we move into Autumn. He’ll be trying to break his boat record of 173cm X 76 girth – estimated @ 70lb. We’ll keep you posted…
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.
Skipper John Fleming says it’s been a busy week on the Brazen Hussy in Galway Bay. Some great pollock fishing to be had, and the tope fishing was fantastic for most of the week.
A nice pollackTope
There were a good few bull huss in the mix, and plenty of wrasse as well.
Had 6 year old Oisin out on Sunday evening with his dad Rory. He smashed his PB pollack 3 times in the evening and even helped me skipper the boat too. Well done Oisin!
Oisin with one of his pollack
Cuckoo wrasseRed gurnard
We still have some midweek left in september and October so don’t hesitate to get in contact. Shark trips also still available
Go fishing…
Blue Shark Angling Galway
To book fishing with John aboard the Brazen Hussy II, give him a call on 087 7571320
A regular day is between 9am- 6pm from either Rossaveal, Spiddal or Galway depending on species being sought after. Fishing on the inshore reefs for pollock, cod, ling, wrasse, conger eel and mackerel can be reached in 10 minutes from departure, while our offshore reef marks are within 45 minutes of departure. Our ground fishing for tope, spurdog, ray, bullhuss, turbot, plaice and the giant common skate can all be reached within the hour which ensures the most amount of time is spent fishing.
The shark season usually starts at the end of June and runs into late October, this is the ultimate angling adrenaline rush with these hard fighting blue and porbeagle sharks all being tagged and released safely.
Package deals available
Maddy Kelly – the Irish woman behind International Women’s Fly Fishing Day
This Saturday, September 9th, is International Women’s Fly Fishing Day, a worldwide initiative to encourage more women to take up fly fishing and for fly anglers around the world to show support for women fly anglers as well.
Wherever you are in the world, women are asked to post photos on social media at 11am showing themselves enjoying fly fishing and already in its fourth year, it’s hoped it’s a day that will grow and grow.
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But did you know that an Irish female fly angler is one of those behind the project? Maddy Kelly is an Irish international angler who teamed up with Pamela Dunlap from West Virginia to form a truly international initiative and on this week’s Ireland on the Fly podcast, Tom & Daire spoke to them about the day and how the obstacles to women in fly fishing are finally breaking down.
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From 410 lbs. bluefin tuna on standup gear to chunky pollack during an evening trip anglers aboard the M.V. Sarah Marie had a ball this past week. Earlier in the week, a productive mark produced a couple hard fighting tope after a successful day on the reef.
410 lbs. bluefin just before releaseBig pollack for young Tommy aboard M.V. Sarah MarieNice Donegal Bay tope
Skipper Sean Maguire reports that although mackerel are scarce off clare at the moment, general fishing is very good. Anglers are catching a good mix of species, and plenty of spurdog still, very nice fishing in the current weather conditions!
A nice cod for this lady angler
Nice sunshine, nice pollack!A fine ling
SpurdogAnother spur
Go Fishing
Lady Gwen II
Fishing Adventures on Séan Maguire’s Lady Gwen II, a Lochin 33 M265Ti Perkins charterboat which operates 15 miles from Kilbaha, Carrigaholt, and Kilrush.
Whether you want to go to the Atlantic Ocean for a large selection of species, including different types of shark, or fish the estuary for ray conger tope etc, Fishing Adventures will cater for whatever fishing you desire. Telephone: +353 (0) 877508758 or +353 (0) 894431182 Email:fishadven@gmail.comWeb:www.fishingadventures.ie
We’ve had some lovely weather this week, and charter boat anglers have taken full advantage.
Last week skipper Luke Aston had a crew who were seeking big game – six-gill sharks to be precise. This was the first time targeting them since early June. Unfortunately on this occasion none were hooked, but Luke is certain they had an “enquiry” from one. The lads did enjoy their fishing though, with some nice fish off the bottom making up for the lack of big toothy critters.
PollackDogfish and a megrim
Reef fishing has been very good, with lots of fish including plenty of pollack and coalfish. Some of the pollack were a very good size, and a few cod, ling and big spurs showed up to the party too.
Nice pollackTwo nice codFine spurdogThe seal was well-fed!
A new group in saw Simon and his friends trying for shark on their first day. After interest from one blue, they headed inshore as the wind got up to the shelter of the estuary for a quieter afternoon. They had some nice mixed species at anchor, including a fairly rare spotted ray.
Spotted rayTub gurnardConger
The weather settled again and the lads have enjoyed good reef fishing, with soft plastics really working well.
Pollack on plasticsPollack
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:lukeaston@eircom.netWeb:www.fishandstay.com
Pete Davis of West Cork and District SAC put together this great report of their recent club match on Caliso Bay beach in west Waterford…
Our latest club fixture was held in Caliso Bay. This was a new venue for us. It’s a sandy beach with a reef running the full length of the beach at casting distance.
6pm-10pm was the match time so darkness would come into play in the last couple of hours.
The weather worked in our favour for this competition and fish showed from the first cast.
Troy Francis, consistent as always pulled a few Corkwing Wrasse from the reef but the early leader was Mark Gargen with 6 wrasse at the halfway stage. As dusk kicked in Scad made an appearance.
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Corkwing
rockling
scad
Big mackerel, but it doesn't count
Caliso Bay
Mark, Troy and Stephen O’Donovan took advantage of their appearance and were quick to add a few to their match cards . It was close between the top 3 Anglers going into the last hour, unfortunately for Mark a fine Mackerel of 43cm did not count. Sean Healy and Gavin O’Connor also had a late burst of fish.
Gavin would eventually win the pools with a 59cm Conger. Two Dogfish in the last hour and a Scad would eventually seal the win for Stephen. The winning card had a mix of Corkwing Wrasse, Scad, Pollock and Dogfish.
Mark took second place and Troy third.
Results
1st Stephen O Donovan – 14 Fish – 433pts
2nd Mark Gargen – 12 Fish – 319pts
3rd Troy Francis – 9 Fish – 209pts
Species caught on the day consisted of Conger, Scad, Corkwing Wrasse, Ballan Wrasse, shore rockling, 3 Bearded rockling, Pollock, Dogfish and Mackerel.
Join the Club
If you are interested in joining us, don’t hesitate to get in touch via our Facebook page. Until next time, tight lines to all..
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:https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Cork-and-District-SAC/201776589958897
Paddy Dunworth of Celtic Angling repots on a trip to the Maigue and Deel at the weekend:
David Lamonilara and his wife Jennifer were leaving Florida as Hurricane Idalia came-a-calling and are enjoying their trip to Ireland. They arrived in Adare this morning from Killarney and David fished with me on the Deel and Maigue whilst Jennifer enjoyed all Adare had to offer.
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David Lamolinara with his brown trout on the Deel
David Lamolinara at Adare
Fly-fishing the Maigue
David’s relatively new to fly-fishing but very keen, never fished upriver or dry-fly but within an hour had bagged his first wild Irish brownie on the Dry-fly, not bad going. He had another 4 rises on the Deel and some small fish at Adare, bright day didn’t help but David can’t wait to get back to Montana to try out his new skills.
Cork Sea Angling Club‘s Kevin McGowan reports on their latest match fished at Long Strand…
Cork Sea Angling Club had their ninth competition of the year on Saturday at Long Strand, West Cork. Fishing was from 6pm to 11pm. The weather was to calm, very little movement which wasn’t great for Long Strand. Here you need a nice strong surf breaking on the shore for some decent fishing.
Long Strand is good for clubs with very small fish, but as our fish sizes are 25cm we knew this was going to be a hard night’s fishing.
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First in with a fish was Alan O’Dowling with a garfish as soon as he caught that fish it was like a chain reaction everyone running for the garfish rigs. Second in was Martin Fitzgerald with a nice 52cm bass, then Noel Cashman with his garfish, there was lots of weavers caught on the night a few small Turbot.
If it wasn’t for Martin Mc Gowan and his home-made buttered jam scones it would have been a long night.
At the end Kevin McGowan won with two bass, garfish and a flounder, Second was Noel with a garfish. Third was Alan with a gar and Fourth was Martin for that early bass.
There are 4 more competitions left and it’s getting very exciting for second, third place
Looking forward to ballyquinn on the 16th of September.
31/8/2023 Just Eagle eye and his photo takes the headlines as there were no Salmon or Sea Trout at the end of the rainbow. Wind WSW and veered West light followed by reasonable cloud cover and the odd shower.
Rainbow looking over Lough Currane
1/9/20233 Heavy showers and rainbows that caught the Currane anglers today as they looked up to the sky’s in frustration. There was a light wind, it was all over the place, take your pick.
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Butler Pool
Lough Currane
2/9/2023 The Currane anglers had a clear and a blazing sun of a day as you can see by the picture of the Butler’s pool. Now we head up stream to Lough Currane and as you see again by the picture there wasn’t much cloud followed by a light wind. My WhatsApp was all quiet in the catch or the release department. Wind light WSW and variable.
3/9/2023 There were six boats reported out today manipulating their skills and sadly their lines stayed slack on this warm and bright sunny day, followed by a light SW wind.
Sahara sand falls in Kerry and elsewhere in Ireland
4/9/2023 Again the weather takes the headlines and sadly the same results as yesterday going by my silent WhatsApp. The only bit of news in SW Kerry today was, we had sand rain this evening coming from the Sahara desert, the car was covered with sand as you can see by the photo. Wind ESE light to fresh.
5/9/2023 The Sahara desert sand heat keeps the Currane anglers at bay as the sun blazes down on the Waterville fishery and if any anglers were out manipulating their skills fair play to them, but going by WhatsApple all Currane lines were slack. Wind ESE fresh and veered SE.
6/9/2023 Sahara and high humidity, wind fresh SSE followed by gusts up to 57 km/h are today’s angling headlines, you could say today’s report is slack as were the Currane anglers.
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 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:
Castle Maiden
Manannan Mac Lir
