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A couple of salmon and a thruple of sea trout for Currane anglers

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IFI Staff
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Vincent Appleby reports from Lough Currane…

29/6/2023 UK Currane angler Mr. Max Harris was in good form again today in the the Salmon department. While fishing with his gillie Mr. Neil O’Shea of www.oshealoughcurrane.com, Max caught a fine 7lb salmon on the troll. For the rest of the Currane Anglers it was all quiet going by my WhatsApp. “What’s that?” you say, texts and photos always welcome on 087 2074882. Wind light WNW and West followed good cloud cover.

30/6/2023 Overcast and heavy rain take all the headlines, as the Currane anglers were all quiet as they lay in waiting to put their Inny hats on. Come afternoon I’m sure their C&R rods and reels would be at the ready and as of yet My WhatsApp is all quiet, but to be fair how big was the flood and how much will the land take, will have more facts tomorrow. Wind NW fresh and overcast all day.

1/7/2023 Mr. Tom O’Shea of www.flyfishingatloughcurrane.com reports that his client US Currane angler Isobel Shaughnessy from Chicago, caught a fine Sea Trout of 2 ½ lbs on the troll. Staying in the Sea Trout department, Cork Currane angler Mr. Jim Maguire caught two Sea Trout while trolling with his Gillie Mr. Neil O’Shea of www.oshealoughcurrane.com.  Yesterday’s amount of rainfall was 11.1mm and in the words of one Inny angler, the flood was small. Wind light to fresh NW followed by reasonable cloud cover.

2/7/2023 The Currane anglers were all quiet this day. Wind NW light to fresh and variable followed by reasonable cloud cover. Breaking News just in and I quote It’s the early bird that caught the worm, Dónal O’ Neil caught a fine 4 1/2 lb grilse on the troll.

3/7/2023 The Currane anglers were all quiet on all fronts, mind you, I said that last night and low and behold it wasn’t long before I was contradicted, so you never know your luck. WNW variable light to fresh and followed by the odd shower.

4/7/2023 All quiet on the SW front. Wind NW light, followed by the odd heavy shower.

Vincent Appleby
Eureka Lodge, Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry.
Telephone: +353 (0) 87 207 4882
E-mail:[email protected]
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

Address Spunkane Waterville Kerry Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 2051515 Website: https://fishingwithdom.com/
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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

Address Lake Road Waterville Kerry Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 87 4160200 Website: lakelandshouse.com
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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

Address Spunkane Waterville Kerry Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 (0)87 2202355 Phone: +353 (0)66 9474800
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Final opportunity for anglers to catch a brown tag for Cork’s River Lee

By
Sadhbh O'Neill
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River Lee

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has today opened the final draw of 2023 for anglers who wish to catch and keep wild salmon and sea trout greater than 40cm from the Lower River Lee in Cork this year.

Apply here: https://www.fisheriesireland.ie/final-online-draw-for-brown-tags-on-lower-river-lee-in-cork?referral=1403

The pool system allocates brown tags to anglers who are successful in the lottery system. The tags must be placed on harvested fish along with a blue tag as proof it was lawfully caught and may be retained for private use.

These essential identification rules for salmon angling are in force until the season closes on September 30th, 2023.

On Monday 24th July, 45 ‘brown tags’ will be allocated for salmon on the Lower River Lee.

Three quarters of the available 180 tags have been issued to anglers with a valid 2023 rod licence through a series of online lotteries.

Anglers with a 2023 rod licence, not allocated a brown tag, are only permitted to fish for salmon and sea trout greater than 40cm on a ‘catch and release’ basis on the Lower River Lee, where the salmon is returned safely to the same waterbody.

Previous online draws took place in January, March, and May.

Apply here: https://www.fisheriesireland.ie/final-online-draw-for-brown-tags-on-lower-river-lee-in-cork?referral=1403

For any further question about online draw for brown tag: IFI’s Macroom office (026) 41221, [email protected]

Information about angling quotas

Quotas for how many fish an angler can catch and keep (harvested) are set by Fisheries Managers every year, on the basis of scientific advice.

These quotas reflect the ‘exploitable surplus’ in any river, as follows:

  1. In cases where the exploitable surplus cannot sustain angling, that particular fishery is closed for the season.
  1. Where it can sustain angling, but not exploitation (harvesting the fish), the river is opened on a ‘catch and release only’ basis where the fish is returned safely to the same waterbody.
  1. Where there is a modest harvestable surplus with a risk of over exploitation, a brown gill tag system is introduced where it is considered necessary in the interests of conserving stocks to closely monitor the angling quotas.
  2. This is to ensure that river-based quotas are not exceeded.  Where these restrictions apply, anglers must be in possession of a brown tag specific to that river to harvest salmon, to be used in conjunction with a blue tag.  Similar to blue tags, brown tags issued contain a unique serial number specific to that licence holder and are not transferable between licence holders.
  1. Where there is an adequate exploitable surplus, the river is opened with the standard 10 tag allocation issued in lots of three or four.

Super haul at Oaklands wins Naas & District AC knockout cup for Aivaras

By
Shane O'Reilly
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For the past six months, Naas & District Anglers have been holding a knockout competition where members face off against each other until there are only two left standing. The final two this year were Paul McLaughlin and defending champ from 2022 Aivaras Zymancius, and they headed down to Oaklands Lake in New Ross for the final shoot-out.

Travelling light…

Fishing was superb on the day, and Paul managed a very creditable 159lb. But, unfortunately for him, Aivaras was on top form on the day and bagged a monstrous 330lb, making him uncatchable and giving him the title for the second year in a row.

A fine bag of carp
And another one…

Please fish in a sustainable manner

It’s windy in Wicklow, but the specimens keep coming.

By
IFI Staff
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Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters has found the wind to be a bit of a nuisance of late, hampering his plans to target tope with any regularity. But any time the wind dies away, he’s back on the water, and luckily the tope are still there in good numbers.

Earlier this week he managed a couple of trips out which yielded plenty of decent tope including one specimen for Ed van der Ham and crew. An evening session also produced a couple of specimens for Dylan Condron’s crew.

Inch Lewins crew had a total of 9 tope to 153cm the previous week, while a trip out after hounds was less successful, but the lack of fish was somewhat sweetened by Bert McGregor’s birthday cake… Happy Birthday Bert 🎂🎣🎁🎈

Happy Birthday to Bert

Kit has also made a trip out deep to a wreck at 20 miles during a recent weather window, and that trip produced well, with some quality pouting and pollock. And they even had a rare but welcome bass on a recent trip. So it’s all happening down in Wicklow now, so you know where to head for a bit of angling action!

 Super wreck pollack
Rare but welcome bass

Go Fishing

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 – Lisin 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.

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.

Kit Dunne
Wicklow Boat Charters

Telephone: +353 (0)87 6832179 +353 (0)404 67031
Email: [email protected] Website: www.wicklowboatcharters.ie

 

Please fish in a sustainable manner

Super skate a welcome alternative to blues when the wind blows

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Dave Edwards from the West Cork Charters reports that the weather has been playing havoc with offshore charters recently, which has hampered his usual trips after blue shark at this time of year. So he decided to have a day fishing inshore, thinking that some skate might be active. His hunch paid off, and he managed to land three nice skate on the day, all of which were tagged as part of the Marine Sportfish Tagging Programme.
Two of the skate, caught by brothers Conor and Sean Ward, were in the 130lb range.
Sean Ward with his skate
Conor Ward with his skate
The third one was a real belter as Mick from Kildare landed a beauty of approx 220lb.
Danni from the Skate programme had fun collecting parasites from all three skate.
Mick’s big skate, estimated at 220lb
Please fish in a sustainable manner

Go fishing…

West Cork Charters operates the Silver Dawn, a 41′ Rodman 1250 with twin 430 HP Engines out of Courtmacsherry. The range of fishing found within close range of Courtmacsherry is superb, with trips producing anything between 6 and 15 different species as a norm and in excess of 20 is possible if anglers are prepared to change methods and use different baits and lures throughout their trip. As a rule mackerel, pollock, cod and ling are usually encountered but several species of wrasse along with whiting, pouting, coalfish, bull huss, conger and many more are often added to the catch.
If you do choose to head offshore to sample the superb shark fishing available within 10 miles of Courtmacsherry, there is a very strong chance of encountering blue sharks and an increasing chance of bringing a porbeagle shark to the boat.

Address: The Pier, Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.
Telephone: +353 (83) 449 1403
Email: [email protected]

Web: www.irelandseaangling.com

Keep Fish Wet! – Bass Anglers Take Note

By
IFI Staff
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As we head into mid-summer, bass anglers will be hitting their favourite marks all around the coast in search of their quarry. Over in the USA, the striped bass season is also in full swing, and US-based anglers will be heading to their favourite marks in search of stripers. The Keep Fish Wet organisation has launched a campaign to promote good fish handling and has produced this handy guide on how best to handle stripers when practising Catch & Release. As much of their advice applies to our European bass, it’s worth taking a minute or two to read through their advice. In fact, they have a whole host of interesting info on fish conservation that applies to much of our sport so it’s a valuable resource for all conservation-minded anglers.

Irish Ladies Flyfishing Association to visit Lough Conn on Salmon Festival Weekend

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IFI Staff
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“The 1993 Irish Ladies Flyfishing Team that fished the first International Ladies Flyfishing Championships to be held in Ireland and which took place on Lough Conn in September 1993, with the late Anne Geary (front row 2nd left) of Pontoon Bridge Hotel, founder of the Irish Ladies Flyfishing Association and Team Manager for 1993. Mary McGovern from Co Cavan (back row 2nd left), and Madeleine Kelly from Co Down (back row 3rd left), have both qualified for the 2024 Irish Ladies Flyfishing Team to fish in Wales.”
“The 1993 Irish Ladies Flyfishing Team that fished the first International Ladies Flyfishing Championships to be held in Ireland and which took place on Lough Conn in September 1993, with the late Anne Geary (front row 2nd left) of Pontoon Bridge Hotel, founder of the Irish Ladies Flyfishing Association and Team Manager for 1993. Mary Mary McGovern from Co Leitrim (back row 2nd left), and Madeleine Kelly from Co Down (back row 3rd left), have both qualified for the 2024 Irish Ladies Flyfishing Team to fish in Wales.”

The Irish Ladies Fly Fishing Association (ILFA) will be running the 2nd trial of their 2023 league on Lough Conn on Saturday 15th July 2023.

The League is an important fixture for members of the ILFA as it determines the team to represent Ireland the following year at the International Ladies Flyfishing Championships fished against teams from England, Scotland and Wales. The next 4-Nations international event for the Irish Ladies Flyfishing Team will be held on Llyn Brenig in 2024.

Ann Kerrin, Chair of the ILFA said,

“Lough Conn was chosen on that weekend as a venue for our trial because the Ballina Salmon Festival will be happening. A number of our members are keen salmon fishers and it was felt that the festival atmosphere would provide a good social event for our members. It is also 30 years since the ILFA held its first trial (March 1993) which happened on Lough Conn. So it seemed an ideal time to be on the beautiful Lough Conn and it will be great to meet up with old friends”

Women will be travelling from all over Ireland to take part.

For any woman interested in taking part in this event please contact our PRO Liz Dermott on [email protected]

There are training days for women new to fly fishing happening over the late summer. More information can be found on our website www.irishladiesflyfishing.com or by contacting Liz Dermott on [email protected]

The 3rd trial will be at an Ulster Venue – Holy Lake in Co Cavan on 10th September.

 

Irish Angling Update 🎣 30 June 2023

By
IFI staff
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Finally, the extremely hot and sunny weather came to an end as most parts of the country saw longer spells of rain and cooler temperatures for much of the past week. Particularly salmon anglers felt relieved when the long dry spell was broken by several floods contributing more oxygenated water and making water levels rise. The fresh water and lower temperatures mainly improved salmon fishing in the spate rivers but other rivers such as the Moy also saw an increase in catch numbers. Anglers enjoyed good fishing on the Galway Weir where grilse have been running the river in better numbers every day since the fishery was closed due to high temperatures.

Fishing the Galway Weir, June 21 2023

The long-awaited rain also brought good sport to the Erriff and other spate systems in the west. There were encouraging reports from Kerry, where the rains that fell last week improved the fishing on the Laune, Maine, Roughty and Lough Leane, while anglers on Lough Currane had a handful of salmon and sea trout as well. There was similarly good salmon fishing reported from the West Cork rivers and the River Lee. Also the Bandon got a good run of grilse, and as a consequence, salmon anglers had some productive days, particularly in the lower part of the river. On the Munster Blackwater, it was also the lower reaches that saw the best of the fishing during the past week.

A summer flood at Aasleagh Falls, River Erriff, Co.Mayo

Over to coarse fishing, where a number of matches were fished during the past week. The Leinster Coarse Fishing Federation fished the last leg of their 2022/23 Leinster league on the Royal Canal. After thunder and lightning had passed, some great fishing for roach, rudd, perch, bream, tench and pike was had.

Coarse angler on the Royal Canal

The weather also impacted on the last match of Athy & District Anglers’ summer league. Strong and gusty winds forced most anglers to stay close to the bank with their poles, but nevertheless, some exceptional fish were caught in some pegs. On Muckno, a fine bag of 18kg for Rimantas Kondracas won first prize of round two of this year’s Feedermaster competition, while down south, Leo Lynch landed a massive 135kg in the latest round of Oakland’s Summer League.

Nice bag from Muckno

The windy conditions last week impacted on charter boat fishing, resulting in fewer sea angling reports than in previous weeks. However, Luke Aston skipper of the Clare Dragoon benefited from having the more sheltered Shannon Estuary right on his doorstep. His clients enjoyed some excellent fishing for thornback ray, bull huss, the ubiquitous doggies and also had a couple of lively tope.

Fine tope from the Shannon Estuary

We also received a great report from Shane Nugent who had some super smoothhound fishing at a Wexford venue including a number of PBs. Smoothhounds were also the order of the day for the Killybegs Mariners crew up in Donegal together with some good lure action from local rock marks. Switching to lures also payed off for Craig Murphy when fishing Tralee Bay. After trying for ray in the morning, himslef and his friend changed to lures, and after a few schoolie bass, Craig was rewarded with his fish of a lifetime. Craig’s specimen size bass of 76cm (10lb 6oz) deserves to win our Catch of the Week!

Craig Murphy with his 76cm sea bass before release

Our “Junior Catch of the Week”, however, goes to 6-year old Ziggy Hatton who showed his flyfishing skills while guided by fly expert Richie Ryan in Cork Harbour.

A very happy 6-year old Ziggy with his fly-caught pollack

Lure anglers might like to tune into episode 13 of Cormac Walsh’s “Lure Fishing Podcast”. This week, Cormac chats with top striped bass angler Brandon Sausele from Long Island, New York.

Another podcast of note is Daire Whelan’s and Tom Doc’s “Ireland on the Fly”. We would like to recommend two episodes this week. For a start, there is a special book club episode this week as Tom & Daire speak to Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of the acclaimed best seller “The Feather Thief”. However, Ireland on the Fly also talks water quality and what it means for angling…

In other news, Inland Fisheries Ireland has launched an open call for youth clubs, community groups, and schools in the greater Dublin area to take part in its fishing programme – the Dublin Angling Initiative. The project aims to promote, develop and improve angling among children and young people. In 2023 Inland Fisheries Ireland is once again looking for interested parties for the summer, autumn and winter months to learn how to fish.

Finally, we would like to congratulate Sixth class learners in Scoil Mhuire agus Iosaf, Collooney, Co. Sligo who landed top prize in IFI’s Something Fishy competition.

four people standing behind an art project on a table
(L-R) Elisha Hickey (class teacher), Markus Müller (IFI), Emily Mannion (class representative), Paul Colreavy (principal)

Something Fishy is an educational programme aimed at primary school pupils aged between 10-13 years old. It informs and educates students on fish, water, angling, and the Irish environment. On completion of the programme, primary school students were challenged by IFI to create a project to demonstrate their learnings based on the theme of ‘life along the river’.

And now the weather…

Saturday will be fresh and blustery with sunny spells and scattered showers, mainly over the northern half of the country. Highest temperatures of 15 degrees in the northwest to 20 degrees in the southeast in fresh and gusty westerly winds. The outlook for most of next week is for more unsettled weather with rain or showers at times. However, it looks like becoming a little warmer with temperatures in the high teens to low twenties.

Safe fishing to all and tight lines, especially here in Ireland.

IFI Staff
Catch, Photo, Release

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      More smoothhounds and some great lure fishing for Mariners crew in Donegal

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      IFI staff
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      Killybegs Mariners SAC enjoyed more great fishing for smoothhound during the week. Read their report below…

      A great run of smoothhounds for the Mariners out enjoying the catching and releasing of these very hard fighting fish on our local marks which is great to see. A good night’s fishing which included two double hound hook ups on the two snood traces for Chris Whyte.
      Night Smoothhound
      Later in the week, a  few casts with the lures after work close to home on the rocks was called for and great to see so much life about the bay with humpback whales and dolphins feeding on the smaller shoals in the bay.
      Carrying light and just walking and flicking in lures to the galleys is a great way to fish and you can remember big fish from years ago that you would have caught from each location which always draws you back to that spot.
      Nice pollack on light gear
      Was hard to get through the mackerel shoals with the metals so switching to the plastics produced a few decent pollack with one brute breaking the line whilst staying deep and rubbing the line in close. Shads bounced in close produced some wrasse which always give a good account of themselves. An enjoyable evening out!
      Wrasse taking a soft plastic

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      Young Ziggy showing his flyfishing skills in Cork Harbour

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      IFI staff
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      If young anglers want to catch a fish on the fly then Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan would appear to be the guy.

       

      Reports to the diary every year from the guide invariably include smiling happy young anglers with big fish. And so it was during the week with 6-year old Ziggy Hatton’s outing, a treat from his uncle Neil. On one occasion Richie had to reach forward to help Ziggy hold the rod as he was having difficulty holding on to a very large pollack. The guide enthused that he absolutely loves getting youngsters hooked on fly fishing.

      Make a booking

      If you want to book Richie then go to  www.corkbass.com

      Eire Bass – Richie Ryan

      Saltwater fly fishing Guide.

      Web: www.corkbass.com E-mail: [email protected]
      Tel: +353 (0)86 1940744

       

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