Following up on our last pike fishing report Sébastien Morel has been in contact again with news about some very nice pike catches in Roscommon.
A fall in the water temperatures is getting the pike moving again resulting in some very nice pike for Seb and his clients.
The lads had ten pike on Wednesday with the best fish measuring 98 and 100cm. Well done to Seb and his clients.
Wicklow Boat Charters Skipper, Kit Dunne, reports on some recent results out of Wicklow…
WRECK fishing off Wicklow proves to be very productive in Autumn, with recent trips producing Pollock, Coalie, & Pouting in numbers. On two trips this week to the 20Nm wrecks, in reasonable weather there were plenty of Pollock to 7lb, no specimens but a nice feed for all on-board.
Some anglers opted for the simple 3-up rigs while others went gilling with shad type lures, both methods proved successful.
TOPE fishing has been excellent this week, with the big females and males in tow making an appearance most days. An afternoon session proved very successful after picking up a couple of fresh mackerel, (which proved to be the most difficult part), we then set up anchor for Tope. It wasn’t long before novice angler Alex had a massive run which produced a fine Male Specimen Tope of 155.5cm, estimated around 45lb. This was later followed by a fine Specimen of 156cm taken by experienced angler Denis Power.
Unfortunately Wednesday didn’t produce inshore with SW F5 winds putting a swell in the most sheltered parts of the Bay.
BASS fishing still proves to be productive although we still have a bit of work to do, were still picking out ones and twos to 4 and 5lb but no double figure fish yet. Watch this space.
SPURDOG should be coming to our waters now, plenty of trips planned for October thru to April for the big Specimen fish coming to our deep waters.
Dave Edwards of West Cork Charters reports some super shark fishing aboard the Silver Dawn.
15 September: Our two anglers from Holland decided to have another session on sharks today as the tuna are late arriving on the south coast. 15 Blues including 2 over 100lb made it a good choice. Frans and Paulus have caught 31 this week over the 2 days we targeted shark. Henk here is helping his fellow countrymen land the fish and when the water is warm they don’t always want to come onboard easily despite a long fight
16 September: The last day out for our visiting Dutch anglers and we decided to try for Bluefin. We haven’t hooked up yet but we have seen several bursts of tuna on the surface so hopefully they have finally arrived off West Cork.
In the meantime Frans and Paulus are resting their arms from all of their shark exploits and the chair is waiting on deck so that they can take it easy if a Bluefin takes a lure.
Either way it’s not a bad way to spend a Friday in September.
19 September: Just back from another epic offshore spin in perfect weather. Wrecking and shark were the target with 5 top lads boating 40 ling from 5 to 22lb and 43 Blue Sharks including 2 specimens.
Best craic was our hurried attempt to get a line out for tuna when we saw them close to Silver Dawn. We hooked and played a Bluefin for 10 mins before it spat the hook…
Bodo Funke of Angling Services Ireland reports great pike angling for Andrea, Alessio, Luca and Ferrucio from Italy. For Andrea it is his 3rd trip with Angling Services Ireland and for Alessio it is the 2nd, while friends Luca and Ferrucio visit the Boye are for their first time. The group enjoyed great pike action with big lures doing the trick on most days.
So far, the four anglers recorded a good number of 1m plus fish biggest at 107cm…
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Notes: Angling Services Ireland provides the very best in angling and angling tourism. We are based in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, in the North-West of Ireland, an area with many superb angling opportunities.
The Proprietor Bodo Funke holds the Marine and Countryside Guiding Certificate (achieved with distinction) and his expertise and local knowledge will be to your avail when you go on a guided angling trip or angling holiday with Angling Services Ireland. Pike fishing, Fly-fishing for Pike, Game fishing for wild Brown Trout, Float- tubing, Coarse fishing. Salmon fishing and Sea-angling can be organised.
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Skipper Luke Aston has been putting guests over some nice fish lately, with some nice blue shark coming to the boat, and bottom fishing producing some fine whiting. Plenty of spurs were also taking baits, with some up to 18lbs.
Regular guest Andy was back for another go for sixgill shark, he has had 3 so far this season but it was not to be on this occasion. Good conger eel and coalfish probably softened the blow somewhat!
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.
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Anglers planning to fish the Jimmy Smith and Maurice Dalton (All-Ireland Open Shore) this weekend better get their skates on. Last call for entries is today, with 2300 tonight the cut-off point.
Entries must be made through the online form here
Check-in on Saturday is at Lettergesh Beach Car Park (https://goo.gl/maps/G33zwSPXcfUnjwZS7) from:15.30 to 16.30 sharp. Please bring exact cash amount.
Galway Bay Sea Angling Club is a progressive club based in Galway, but fishing competitions along the west coast. New members are always welcome, and every level of experience is catered for, with social outings right up to competitions held throughout the year. If you’re looking to get into sea angling in the west, check them out here
Lack of wind isn’t often a feature of fishing on the west coast, but that was the case for a day shark fishing this week. John Fleming says the wind was so slack thar the slick just drifted a big circle around the boat!
However the other species more than made up for the lack of sharks, with some lovely ling, pollack, whiting, coalies and pouting on the drift.
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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Dick Caplice reports from Lough Muckno…
With a two day feeder total of 26kg plus Robertas Zilatis scored another significant win, to capture this highly competitive feeder championship.
The best feeder anglers around participated including indeed the podium 2nd, ever consistent Rimantas,3rd the brilliant Darren Fairhurst, and 3rd the tenacious venue strong man Jim McAllister.
Others to threaten doggedly on the last day were Alan Larkin, Shamie Winters, Brenton Sweeney, Philip Jackson, Stephen Whyte and Piotr Horbiński.
Co Monaghan pairs 2022 champions are Craig Ellis and Dave Finnegan on a fine 4 out of 5 days, 10 points total.
A nail biting finish today saw this pair eclipse Helen Dagnall and Dave Brooks by a single point and just 200 grammes. Will Mc Cranor won the day again with a fine 21kg plus and his 1 point helped him and his top partner Billy Kirk to 4th place on the podium pairs with a 15 pt total.
Following Dave and Helen was Tom Barlow and Pete Duffy on 14 pts while the final podium spot was nailed on 16pts by jim Brockie and Ian Shepard.
Some splendid fishing was had by all of our competitors with a daily average of just under 13kgs of fish brought to the scales by every single competitor.
All pairs have already committed for 2023 with at least 10 further pairs also now in the mix, along with a number of home based pairs.
The event will be organised by us again next year, holding its slot in the 2023 calendar and following a review of this year’s events, it is likely that the same on the ground running process will be followed.
A big thanks goes to Craig Ellis and Dave Finnegan for their sterling work throughout the week, in the day to day running.
A target of 30 pairs for 2023 is realisable and already close to being achieved.
Fo information on competitions see the Lough Muckno Facebook page
Vincent Appleby reports from Waterville…
15/9/2022 Nice to see a few boats out this day and there were a few nice Sea Trout caught on the drift. Now we head down stream to the World-famous Butler Pool and at www.watervillegolflinks.ie There were two fine Salmon caught on the fly by a client fishing with his Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of Waterville Boats and at [email protected] one of their Salmon was in the 13 to 14 lbs. class. Wind N light with good cloud cover.
16/9/2022 We start today’s proceedings on the waters of Lough Currane and fair play to the Currane drifters there were few Sea Trout caught. Now we head down stream to the World-famous Butler Pool at www.watervillegolflinks.ie so straight to the Pool, there were two fine Salmon caught on the fly by a client fishing with his Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of Waterville boats and at [email protected] Wind NE light and variable followed by reasonable cloud cover.
17/9/2022 All quiet on the SW front but there was a tale of one that got away, so here is Mr. Paul O’Leary’s story of the day, “While flyfishing on the drift I hooked a fine Sea Trout in double figures, as I got the net ready I could see quiet clearly it was a Sea Tout over 10 lbs plus and when I went to net the Sea Trout he was gone before I got the chance to put the net in the water.” Staying with Paul’s loss, just for the record another boat did witness Paul’s Fish. Wind SE veered SW light to calm with reasonable cloud cover at times.
18/9/2022 Now today’s fine action and their back, yes you have it, The Hampshire Hogs and were in flying form today on the World famous Butler Pool and at www.watervillegolflinks.ie Hampshire Hog Nigel Henshaw caught a fine Grilse on the fly and his good friend and fellow Hampshire Hog Trevor Dewberry also caught a Grilse on the fly and staying with The Hampshire Hogs we head up stream to Lough Currane, Hampshire Hog, Peter Ruffle caught a fine Grilse and some good Sea Trout of which the best was in the 3 lbs class. Just for the record the Hampshire Hogs were fishing with Waterville boats and at [email protected] and fishing out of www.cliffordbandb.com Wind SSW light and variable and sunny with a bit of cloud at times.
19/9/2022 All Salmon and Sea Trout Headlines go to the Hampshire Hogs and their Gillies’s of Waterville Boats at [email protected]. So straight to the World famous Butler Pool and at www.watervillegolflinks.ie Hampshire Hog Mr. Peter Ruffle caught a fine Grilse and one Sea trout on fly, with his Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of [email protected]. Now we head up stream to Lough Currane with the Hampshire Hog Mr. Nigel Henshaw and Hampshire Hog Mr. Trevor Dewberry and their Gillie of Waterville Boats, they caught a few Sea Trout on the drift and their biggest was in the 2 lbs class. Wind SSW light to fresh followed by good cloud cover.
20/9/2022 The Hampshire Hogs and Waterville Boats [email protected] take control of the Waterville Fishery on the Salmon and Sea Trout reports. So let’s get down to today’s facts. Hampshire Hog Mr. Trevor Dewberry while trolling caught and released a fine 10 lbs Salmon and finished day off with another fine C&R Grilse, while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of Waterville Boats at [email protected] Hampshire Hog Mr. Nigel Henshaw and fellow Hampshire Hog Mr. Peter Ruffle fishing with their Gillie from Waterville Boats caught a few nice Sea Trout in the 2 lbs class and finished their day with a few nice Brown Trout also in the 2 lbs class. Wind SW light and variable at times and overcast.
21/9/2022 Where do I start, yes you have it the Hampshire Hogs and their Gillie’s of Waterville Boats and at [email protected] take all the headlines again on Lough Currane. So straight to the action, Hampshire Hog Mr. Nigel Henshaw caught a Grilse on the fly and fellow Hampshire Hog Mr. Peter Ruffle also caught a Grilse on the fly and both Nigel and Peter caught a fine basket of 10 trout of which two of the Trout were in the 2 ½ lbs class, all caught on the fly and ably assisted by their Gillie at [email protected]. Just for the record the Hampshire Hogs are fishing out of www.cliffordbandb.com. Wind SSW light and overcast with rain falling this evening and staying with the weather there forecasting 22mm of rainfall.
Vincent Appleby
Eureka Lodge, Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry.
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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
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:
Species fishing was on the agenda over the weekend for guests on the Lady Gwen ii, and they certainly made the most of it. The photos below give just a taste of the many species on offer off the Clare coastline, truly some of the best fishing on offer. Skipper Sean Maguire certainly put his crew on some great fishing.
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.
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