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The young apprentices stalk carp in Kilkenny

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IFI Staff
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Anthony's Carp

Dan O’Neill angling guide and casting instructor at South East Casting reports on a recent coarse angling trip…

Had a quick walk about the lake yesterday and of course we had a fishing rod which paid off. As my two young boys walked beside each other to the lake edge I felt very lucky to be able to share moments like this with them. Approaching the lake Anthony held Daniel back a little and pointed at the feeding fish. Daniel, amazed at this, immediately knew it was quiet time. He watched his brother’s every move closely. Daniel was given the very important job of getting the fish to feed, throwing in 4-5 riser pellets at a time. Rudd hammered the pellets nearly as they landed. The Rudd then started to back off and as they cleared a shadow began circling underneath the pellets. As the shadow moved it created small boils on the water’s surface. Of course, Anthony at this stage knew exactly what this shadow was and explained to his brother the importance of keeping low and quite as he allowed the fish to gain confidence. A second shadow approached also which was great news. Anthony knows that once the fish start competing for the pellets, they lose a little caution. This means of course that a mistake on their behalf is more probable.

Now came the time for the important cast. Waiting until the fish was a little deeper and facing away Anthony dropped in his offering. Some minutes passed and the fish didn’t show much interest in the hook bait. The fish seemed to drop down a little in the water. The fish were certainly hungry, as they were hanging around under the pellets turning every now and again which we linked to them taking the pellets as they absorbed water and began to sink. This of course brought us to the tackle box to devise a rig. Daniel at this point was watching us and asking what’s that and what’s this. As we told him the different names, he would repeat them back to us.

With a homemade rig we travelled back to the location and approached with caution, Watching closely to see how the fish were now behaving after some alone time. Watching a fish patrol the edge of the milfoil looked inviting but the weeds would pose and issue for us when we hooked up. Slowly we began feeding an area a little distance off the milfoil to try lure the fish out a little giving us the chance to turn it away from the weeds and into open water if we were lucky enough to hook it. After some time the fish moved out a little and we decided it was now our chance. We had left some pellets steeping in water  and we now had some sinkable bait.

Watching the fish approach we gently flicked the bait into position. A nice gentle entry into the water and it slowly waved towards the bottom. The carp spotted it and made its way across, using its pectoral fins and magically moving the top and bottom of its tail separately the fish was lining up to take our bait. With a slow suck the hook disappeared into the fish’s mouth.  Anthony lifted and the rod pointed straight to the carp. Anthony immediately knew something was different here, this fish was slower but stronger. Long steady powerful runs, it took a lot of skill and there were a couple of times I thought it was going to be “the one that got away”. Turning around I saw Daniel was standing with the net looking at me, he knew what was happening, maybe from all the Mortimer and Whitehouse we watch he knows a hooked fish means grab the net. Eventually the fish was ready so we netted it and left it for a few minutes in the water before taking it out for a quick picture.

Anthony’s Carp with a very impressed Daniel

What a lovely way it was to spend an evening, with the two boys who have that famous bond Ii keep speaking of that only angling can create. Watching Anthony showing his little brother the ropes was superb and shows sometimes even though I don’t think it, he is listening to me. Daniel has a little way to go but is on his journey, with the warm evenings I am sure we will make a trip for some Gudgeon and Tench very soon.

Go fishing…

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Irish Angling Update 🎣 9 June 2023

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IFI staff
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Most parts of the country have seen sweltering weather for the past two weeks, with daytime temperatures in the mid-twenties on most days, and feeling much hotter in bright sunshine. It clearly is some of the longest spells without rain and unbroken blue skies in memory. So, it is no wonder that the current heatwave is now taking its toll and trout & salmon fishing has come to a standstill on many fisheries mainly in the west of the country as temperatures were mostly higher along the western seaboard than in eastern parts.

In the light of this, Inland Fisheries Ireland decided to suspend salmon angling at the Moy Fishery in Ballina, Co. Mayo and the Galway Fishery, in Galway City as water temperatures exceeded the 20⁰C threshold in both locations over a number of days. Other State-owned fisheries are being monitored currently. These will be closed if and when they meet an appropriate threshold where cessation of angling must be enforced.

Extremely low water levels – a common sight on most west coast spate rivers these days

The prolonged warm and dry weather conditions are also reflected in the few salmon reports we received for the past week. While conditions on the Moy were far beyond favourable for salmon fishing, the Moy Estuary produced some nice sea trout up to 4 lbs. In Co. Kerry, the situation wasn’t much different as more sombreros than salmon and sea trout were seen on Lough Currane. While there is not much salmon and sea trout fishing to be had, anglers might like to tune into this week’s episode of Ireland on the Fly. In their podcast, Tom & Daire are joined by Paddy Gargan, the recently retired IFI fisheries scientist who has a wealth of knowledge about fish conservation, habitat restoration and stock numbers.

Trout anglers were also struggling due to the present adverse conditions. On many of the lakes such as Lough Conn angling remained most challenging with only smallish trout been caught during the day. The hot and sunny weather has also brought mayfly hatches to an end on Lough Corrib making daytime fishing more difficult. However, early morning Caenis hatches which are in full swing now can provide some excellent trout fishing for the early bird!

The flies may be small but the trout like them!

Over to river trout fishing and the Nore at Mount Juliet where Dan O’Neill reports of great surface action and also some nice carp and tench for his son Anthony from a nearby lake. Staying on the Nore, TAFI Leinster and Thomastown Anglers will be hosting a Youth Open day on the 17th of June. This will be an introduction to flyfishing for all youths under the age of 18.

Nore
Dan O’Neil ready to land a trout for Yellow Dog’s Sarah Delany on the River Nore

Normally, low water levels and hot temperatures don’t provide for good coarse angling either. So, it was a bit of a surprise that we received a number of positive reports from different matches fished around the country. Starting up north, the VDE Baggers AC enjoyed unexpectedly good fishing on the River Blackwater with a more than respectable top weight of 24kg for Gary Cummings.

On the Grand Canal at Daingan in Co. Offaly, Peter Keenan won the “King of the Canal” match, while The C/M Lakelands to-day festival was fished on Skeagh and Drumkeary Lakes in Cavan. Overall winner was Brenton Sweeney with just over 19kg. Also in Cavan, there was some fantastic tench fishing in amazing weather for members of Iascaire Fishing Club on a local lake.

Despite tough conditions – great bag of tench

Concluding our coarse angling reports for this week, Waterford & District Coarse Angling Club‘s “South East Classic” was played out on three different venues (river, Ballyshunnock Reservoir and Oaklands) last week. Overall winner was John Browne who won the reservoir session and also his section on Oaklands making this his first ever festival win!

John Browne
John Browne happy over his first festival win

While most freshwater anglers were struggling, charter boats have been making the most of the fine weather!

Starting in Donegal, members of Killybegs Mariners SAC enjoyed some great fishing from both shore and boat. Donegal Bay provided excellent mixed fishing including some really big pollack for clients of Killybegs Fishing Trips. Big Pollack along with pouting, wrasse and many other species were also the order of the day for skipper John Fleming on the Brazen Hussy in Galway Bay.

A little further south along the Clare Coast, there was top-class fishing in the sunshine on the Lady Gwen, while it was tope time for skipper Luke Aston and his guests aboard the Clare Dragoon.

Nice Clare tope

Great tope fishing along with hounds and huss was also enjoyed by a group of Dutch anglers says Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters.

Great fishing off the Wicklow coast too

Tony Santry skipper of the charter boat Tigger fishing out of Caherciveen in Co. Kerry reported on what must be the first blue sharks of the season caught on 2 June.

Our Catch of the week, however, goes to Courtmacsherry. Mark Gannon of Courtmacsherry Angling told us that angling has really taken off the last couple of weeks following the arrival of the summery weather. Pollack fishing has been very good with great sport on light tackle with fish to 5 kg, cod to 6 kg and some good-sized coalfish, while at anchor good conger and ling with specimen skate, specimen spurdog and near specimen bullhuss were caught.

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Skate from Courtmacsherry

Finally, we would like to draw anglers’ attention to episode 7 of the lure fishing podcast. Presenter Cormac Walsh talks to British wrasse lure fishing expert Damion Fryer. Damion targets wrasse on lures and really has fine-tuned his skills over the years fishing the rocky coastline around Cornwall. Surely, his techniques can be applied to the waters around Ireland.

And now the weather

The weekend will start warm and humid with a mix of cloud and sunshine. Scattered showers, mainly over Munster at first, will gradually extend into other parts of the country, some turning heavy with the chance of isolated thunderstorms and spot flooding.

The outlook for next week is for warmer or even hot days with sunshine and scattered slow moving showers. There is a risk of some thundery downpours which can be heavy in places. Top temperatures will range from 20°C to 26°C, in just light variable or northeasterly breezes.

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

IFI Staff
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Excellent fishing for Killybegs Mariners from shore and boat

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IFI staff
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Killybegs Mariners enjoyed some great fishing during the week. Read their report…

Tropical weather on Donegal Bay and a great fishing for Gavin and Chrostopher aboard “St Catherine” with 15 species being caught including two double coley and cod along with two fish on one hook and some nice turbot on the sand, decent ling, cod, wrasse, pollack etc. on the reefs.

Gavin and Christy on the turbot
Lovely coloured cuckoo wrasse

Well done also to Sean Harte and Chris Whyte on a fine fishing of tope out on the boat as their numbers increase inshore this time of year.

Chris Whyte with a nice tope

Finally back to the beaches where Pat and Darren enjoyed the great weather in Donegal having some very good beach sunset fishing with nice bass and trout.

Nice night time bass from the beach

Please fish in a sustainable manner

Great fishing in glorious conditions for Killybegs Fishing Trips

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IFI staff
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Killybegs Fishing Trips report great fishing in glorious conditions from Donegal Bay!

Anglers aboard the “Fiona Tee” enjoyed fantastic fishing all week. Conditions were glorious and so was the fishing. Many different species were caught including some really big pollack up to 77cm!

Anglers were also blessed to experience the fantastic marine wildlife Donegal Bay has to offer with loads of dolphins showing and also a pod of 5 to 6 big minke whales…you can’t ask for much more during a day’s fishing.

Go Fishing…

Address: Moneygold, Grange, Co. Sligo.
Telephone: 00353 87 6224348
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Challenging conditions continue on Loughs Conn & Cullin

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IFI staff
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Steve Schreck reports from Loughs Conn & Cullin…

Angling Report week ending 04/06/2023

Nothing much has changed on the lakes. Conditions are still very much challenging and mostly smallish trout are being caught.

On Saturday Peter Roche fished Gallagher’s very early in the morning, fish seem to turn off after 12 o’clock. He caught a trout of 1.5lbs and another one around the size limit of 12 inches, both were released.

Padraic Traynor reported on Conn and Cullin Anglers’ “Traynor and Tolan Cup” which was held on the 3rd and 4th of June. 81 anglers had 41 trout over 13” for the two days.

1st place went to Tisse Siriwardenna from Sligo, who caught 3 fish for 1.695kg.

2nd place went to Stephen Brown from Cloghans with 3 fish for 1.630kg.

3rd place went to Dennis Goulding from Dublin with 3 fish for 1.45kg.

4th place went to Francis McSharry from Kinlough, who caught 3 fish for 1.4kg.

Padraic Traynor presenting the “Traynor and Tolan Cup” trophy to Tisse Siriwardenna

 

Heatwave taking its toll on the Moy but good sea trout fishing in the Estuary

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IFI staff
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Steve Schreck reports from the River Moy and the Moy Estuary…

Angling Report week ending 04/06/2023

The heatwave across Ireland is starting to take its toll on the Moy catchment and the anglers. Conditions for the whole week were far beyond favourable, with air temperatures regularly reaching 20 degrees Celsius or more, bright sunshine and not even a droplet of rain to be seen. The total reported catch numbers amounted to 64 salmon. Water levels at Ballylahan Bridge stayed at low water levels all week.

The Moy Fishery reported 13 salmon for the week of which 2 were released. 9 of those fish were caught on the Ridge Pool and 4 were caught on the Cathedral Beat.

Happy young angler Ferdinand Deutsch with his first ever springer of 10.25lbs
Brian O’Donohoe with a nice fish of 11.5lbs

Ballina Salmon Anglers recorded 4 grilse for the week.

Armstrong Fishery reported 4 salmon for the week. One of those fish was a 9lbs springer and the remaining three were grilse. All 4 fish were caught on the prawn.

Gannon’s Fishery recorded 4 fish, weighing between 6lbs and 9lbs, caught on the prawn.

The Foxford Fishery recorded 19 salmon for the week. The biggest fish weighed in at 13lbs and was caught on the prawn.

Foxford Salmon Anglers reported 10 fish. Successful methods were prawn and bubble & fly.

Cloongee Fishery recorded 2 grilse. 3lbs on the fly (released) and 4lbs on the worm.

East Mayo Anglers recorded 8 salmon for the week, 2 of which were released. 3 fish on the fly and 2 on the worm and 3 on the spinner. The heaviest weighed 9lbs. and the rest were grilse.

Moy Estuary Judd Ruane, however,  reports on excellent results on Pegasus and other local boats with sea trout up to 4lb.

Caenis fishing provides sport on Corrib

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IFI Staff
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Galway has seen sweltering weather for the past two weeks, with daily temperatures exceeding 24C most days, and feeling much hotter in the bright sunshine. Indeed, we have rarely had such a long spell of unbroken blue skies in memory, with just some high cloud appearing in recent days. The lake is now very warm, with water temperatures approaching 20C, and daytime fishing is almost non-existent bar a few boats trolling.

Early morning, however, is another story, with Caenis hatches providing good sport for anglers with the commitment to be on the lake before 5am. Fishing guide Larry McCarthy, from Corrib View Lodge, reports on the last two weeks:

Early morning is a wonderful time to be on the lough
Chasing Caenis is in full swing for angler’s staying at Corrib View Lodge.
We have two weeks of early mornings already done with plenty of fish up and feeding at dawn.
Hatches have been mediocre but they have improved dramatically over the last 3 or 4 days.
The warm sunny weather has left mornings cool and hatches have been early most before sunrise.
Fishing has been productive even though the bright conditions have made things more challenging than usual. All guests staying with us are getting on average 5 to 6 hours each morning casting at feeding trout.Hopefully we will see a little cloud soon to make the job a little easier.
A nice trout for Ben

 

The flies may be small but the trout like them!
Early starts do take a toll!

Go Fishing

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IFI to close Moy and Galway salmon fisheries due to high water temperatures

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Sadhbh O'Neill
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Water on a weir
Galway weir
  • ‘Thermal stress’ threat in rivers can lead to fish kills

Inland Fisheries Ireland is suspending salmon angling at the Moy Fishery in Ballina, Co. Mayo and the Galway Fishery, in Galway city, due to prolonged warm and dry weather conditions.

Recent dry and hot weather has caused water temperatures to exceed the 20⁰C threshold in both locations over a number of days.

Freshwater fish species such as salmon and trout can suffer ‘thermal stress’ arising from the impact of adverse warm weather on them.

Both the Moy and Galway fisheries are owned by the State, and operated by IFI.

Other State-owned fisheries are being monitored currently. These will be closed if and when they meet an appropriate threshold where cessation of angling must be enforced.

IFI is mandated, as a national conservation agency, to protect the welfare of fish.

Anyone who encounters distressed fish, fish kills, illegal fishing or pollution, can contact our confidential 24/7 number on 0818 34 74 24 or email us at [email protected].

People fishing a river
Moy Fishery

Anglers with bookings on the Moy Fishery in the coming days can contact 096 21332 or [email protected] for more information. Those with bookings on the Galway Fishery can contact 091 562388, or email [email protected].

Details of the reopening of both fisheries will be published via IFI’s website fisheriesireland.ie and on our Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram social media channels.

Great summer fishing in Galway Bay

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IFI Staff
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It’s been a fantastic week of sunshine in Galway, with temperatures of 23C+ every day. Although the wind has been easterly, this hasn’t put a damper on the fishing, with some fine fish being caught, according to skipper John Fleming on the Brazen Hussy. Plenty of big pollack, pouting, some wrasse and mackerel were the main species caught, with all anglers enjoying great sport in the summer sun.

 

 

 

 

 

Go Fishing

Brazen Hussy II

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.
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Great fishing in the sunshine on the Lady Gwen

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IFI Staff
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Skipper Sean Maguire says the last week has been “a beauriful week to have been on the ocean, and even with all the sunshine the fishing was still top class.

 

 

With such good fishing, we’re tempted to get out ourselves. If you’re looking for a day on the water with some great fishing, give Sean a call!

Go Fishing

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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.
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