Kevin O’Boyle reports that it was a case of 2 in a row on Lough Conn for local Angler Brendan Murphy from Cloghans.
Brendan won the Chris Downey Cup with a trout of 1.7lbs. This is a repeat of the week before in the Lough Conn and Cullin Anglers Association Competition. He caught the trout in the same place with the same fly at the same time!
Billy McGee from Ballyvary came second in the Competition with a trout of 1.4lbs.
Kevin O’Boyle reports that there were 15 Salmon recorded for the week ending 18/09/2022, with 6 of these released. Water levels were extremely low for this time of year. Water levels recorded at Ballylahan Bridge (waterlevel.ie) on the Monday morning were 0.301m and dropped off to 0.192m on Sunday night.
The Moy Fishery recorded 5 sea trout ranging in weight from 1.5lbs.– 3lbs. all released and 1 brown trout for the week also released.
Mount Falcon Fishery had 1 salmon for the week and was released.
Coolcronan Fishery had 2 salmon for the week on bubble and fly.
Armstrong’s Fishery recorded 1 salmon caught on the bubble and fly.
Gannon’s Fishery recorded 1 salmon on bubble and fly
Foxford Fishery reported 5 grilse caught on bubble and fly, 1 of which was released.
East Mayo Anglers recorded 5 salmon for the week, and 4 released.
Tom Collins reports on the latest fishing onboard Loch an Iasc…
17 September: Team 64 made a return today for a bit of shark fishing and had a good day with 15 good blues to 100lb.
Today’s surprise was a shoal of Saury that stayed with the boat for most of the day and proved to be a very good shark bait.
18 September: Team 64 were back out on the shark today with more quality shark to just over 100lb.
Great to see so many bluefin amongst the whales and dolphins and an added bonus of more Saury for the bait freezer.
19 September: The biggest shark today went to Rosaleene and put up a great fight.
Well done guys, great to have you onboard today
No results.
The 2022 Water Blitz will ask citizen scientists countrywide to sample and test the water quality in their local river, lake, pond or stream for nitrates and phosphates using kits supplied to them when they register for the event.
WaterBlitz event are open to organisations around the country like angling groups that have an interest in checking and maintaining the water quality of their local river or stream. The aim is to collect as much data as possible through the FreshWater Watch app to determine the status of water bodies nationwide, celebrating the cleanest water bodies and identifying pollution hotspots.
Many angling groups took part in previous successful Blitzes in 2019 and 2021 which yielded interesting results and FreshWater Watch are hoping to continue this work and monitor many more rivers this year. See details of upcoming WaterBlitzs below…
7 October – 10 October 2022
Do you live near the River Deel in Ireland?
The Deel WaterBlitz event will be taking place this autumn across County Cork and County Limerick over a four day period from Friday 7 October to Monday 10 October.
People living locally can sign up to receive a free water quality testing kit and upload their data to a shared online map. The aim of the event is to make the invisible, visible through people powered citizen science and find out what is happening to the water quality of the River Deel.
Registrations are now open below! They will close on 28 September.
Register here: https://www.freshwaterwatch.org/pages/events
7 October – 10 October 2022
Are you part of a river or community group across Ireland and interested in checking the quality of your local waterbody?
The Irish WaterBlitz 2022 event will be taking place across the entire country over a four day period from Friday 7 October to Monday 10 October.
Interested groups can sign up to receive free water quality testing kits to distribute to members of their group who can test the waterbody or catchment area that they champion. The data collected will be uploaded to a shared online map available to all participants where the power of citizen science will help discover how good our freshwater quality is across the country.
Registrations are now open below! They will close on 2 October.
Register here: https://www.freshwaterwatch.org/pages/events
Water Levels dropped during the week. Angling efforts increased on the Laune and anglers are mostly spinning for salmon and fly fishing for trout. No reports of salmon catches on the Laune, but plenty of fish have been seen.
The Lakes are quietening down and less anglers are out on the water. all the same, brown trout are still being caught on wet fly.
River levels, which had increased somewhat in previous weeks allowing salmon to migrate upstream to the Mallow/Millstreet area, are now fining out again.
Reports are that Salmon are once again being caught throughout the system. IFI staff have met significant numbers of salmon anglers being met from Millstreet, Co. Cork to Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. Good catches have been reported from around the Lismore area, but no great evidence of fresh run Salmon or the expected Autumn run.
This large and broad river has a lot of fine salmon fishing spread among many private and club fisheries. They are all easily accessible and most welcome visiting anglers. Spring run improving in recent years. The best grilse fishing is towards the end of the season. For more information see:
Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages
Fortwilliam Fishery offers two miles of double bank salmon and trout fishing over five beats on the river Blackwater.
Our salmon include – Springers, May Salmon, Grilse, Back End Salmon, and in Summer sea trout.
Our beats provide a wide variety of water, suitable for both beginners and the more experienced fishermen.
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Web: www.fortwilliamfishing.ie Email: [email protected]
Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299
Blackwater Salmon and Trout Fishery
Blackwater Salmon and Trout Fishery control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater. The Ballyduff Bridge beat is almost a mile long offering a huge variety of water and is particularly suited to fly fishing. Upstream near the village of Ballyhooley (a few miles outside the town of Fermoy, Cork) we have two beats. The Ballincurrig Beat is one of the most beautiful locations along the river and has an excellent piece of fly water flowing into a deep pool. Just downstream on the opposite bank we have a short but productive beat, called Magners. This beat fishes also well in high water.
Contact Jason Corcoran:
Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.
Tel: +353 (0)586 0146
Mobile: +353 (0)87 720 5690
Web: www.blackwatertroutandsalmon.ie
Careysville Fishery
Careysville Fishery offers some of the best salmon fly fishing in Ireland and includes 26 named pools. It is considered by many to be one of premier beats for salmon fishing in Ireland. Wading is excellent and among the numerous streams, pools and glides there is a great variety of fly fishing to suit both complete novice and challenge the most competent of fly casters.
Careysville, Clondulane, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
Email: [email protected] Mobile: +353 (0)86 2378788
Web: http://careysville.com/careysville-fishery/
Lismore Castle Fishery
At Lismore Castle & Golf Course Fishery, we offer nearly two miles of two inter-linked beats, the Castle Beat & the Golf Course Beat.
The legendary Castle Beat consistently ranks as one of the top Salmon beats on the River Blackwater, for the number of Atlantic Salmon caught per rod. The Golf Course Beat offers about 1.5 miles of fishable water through meandering majestic countryside. The Golf Course beat offers a number of bewildering pools suitable for unmatched spinning and bait fishing.
For bookings contact Joe Willoughby on Mobile no. 00353 87 8295449 or Email: [email protected]
Website: www.lismorecastlefishery.com
Blackwater Salmon Fishery
Blackwater Salmon Fishery has 3 beats downstream of the weir and 2 upstream of the weir. Blackwater Salmon Fishery offers fishing on approximately 5 miles of the river Blackwater. The fishing is spread throughout the middle section of the river to offer good sport throughout the fishing season. Due to the location of the beats, fishing can still usually be offered in low or high water.
Contact Glenda Powell: Lismore, Co Waterford,
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +353 (0) 872351260 Telephone: +353 (0) 5853929
Web: www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com
Blackwater Valley Fishery
Salmon, Sea trout and Brown trout fishing on prime fishing beats River Blackwater Co.Cork and Co. Waterford Ireland.
Mobile: 087 690 5467
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Corkwaterfordfishery/
Blackwater Salmon Anglers, Mallow
We provide Day Tickets for some prime Salmon fishing in Mallow Co. Cork. We have excellent fly water, shrimping worming and spinning also. We also have very competitive Day rates and we have very recently upgraded our fishing.
Tickets available from “The Bridge House” and “Vincent Downes Menswear” Mallow.
Facebook: Blackwater Salmon Anglers
Upper Bridgetown Salmon Fishery
Located on the Munster Blackwater in the south of Ireland. Situated mid river between the towns of Fermoy and Mallow. A productive left bank beat in stunning surroundings.
For bookings contact Conor Arnold: +353 87 755 4682
Facebook: Upper Bridgetown Salmon Fishery
Loungueville House Salmon Fishery
For details on availability and conditions of fishing for salmon and trout on the Longueville House waters please contact them at
Contact : Longueville House Hotel, William O’Callaghan
Address : Mallow, Co. Cork.
Telephone : 00 353 22 47156
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.longuevillehouse.ie
18 Salmon, best 9lbs by a club angler on worms.
9 Salmon, best 7lbs by a club angler on a Flying C.
Mark Gannon from Courtmacsherry Angling has been fishing with a lot of Belgian anglers recently and they haven’t been disappointed with great fishing for Ling, Shark, common skate, pollack, conger.
The blue sharks on the wrecks were very active and several specimen sized Coalfish we’re lost due to being targeted on the way up by blue and Porbeagle sharks.
Great days skate fishing were had by visiting English anglers with several specimens boated.
Selfdrive boats doing well inshore ,good fishing for pollack and bass on light tackle.
Charter boats and self drive boats in Courtmacsherry
The club species tracker for Killibegs Martiners SAC for this year stands at 70 different species so far…what a phenomenal achievement!
Club member John Cunningham also hit a major milestone during the week, catching his 60th species for the year. John added a saury to his impressive list…this truly is some fantastic
There were also
Various bluefin boats along the northwest coast reported excellent tuna fishing over the past two weeks with many fish in the 250 to 450 lbs. range been caught, tagged and released.
Big game fishing for bluefin tuna has been exceptionally popular this year and while weekends are more or less fully booked, there are still a few mid-week spots available before the season closes in November. A list of all authorised bluefin tuna boats is available here.
Check out information on the Tuna CHART Programme
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