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Good pollack fishing in west Clare, with some sharking sport too

Skipper Sean Maguire had a crew of “two brothers (and good friends) over from the UK for their annual shark trip, and they were not disappointed again this year. Great company on the boat as usual”. Spurs were landed as well as blue shark.

Spur dog

 

Blue shark

General fishing has been very steady, with plenty of mackerel providing bait, good pollack fishing and a few other species in the mix.

A full house!
Two nice pollack
A fine pollack
Wrasse

 

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: [email protected] Web: www.fishingadventures.ie

Tope the highlight of some great fishing in Galway Bay

Double hook up for father and son

Skipper John Fleming says they have enjoyed some great fishing over the last 10 days or so. Some nice tope have been showing, all be it patchy at times, but reef and general species fishing has been brilliant with good numbers of gurnards, wrasse, whiting, pollock and cod about most days.

A nice cod
Cod
Brightly coloured red gurnard
A fine pollack
Pollack
Double hook up for father and son
Tope
Tope
Nice tope
and another one

 

Go fishing…

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

Address: Baile an tSagairt, Spiddal, Co. Galway.
Telephone: +353 (0)87 7571320
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueSharkAngling

 

Drop in water temps makes for tail-walking action for east Clare pike

Damien Culliney of Anglers Paradise reports on a great day afloat in east Clare yesterday:

My friend Chris and I had some great sport on an east Clare lake yesterday. After a long spell of high water temperatures, which had made the very pike sluggish, it was great to see water temps finally dropping off, and it definitely had an impact on the fishing. We had 15 fish to the boat with a 103 cm being the best fish of the day. The fish were all in top condition and there was plenty of jumping and tail-walking action to add to the excitement. Between casting and trolling, the lure of the day was a ‘Swimmin Dawg’ from Muskyinnovations. Looking forward to some great fishing over the coming couple of months www.anglersparadise.ie 🎣👍

Water levels on the Moy on an all time low

The Moy at Foxford

Kevin O’Boyle reports from the River Moy…

River Moy Angling Report week ending 04/09/2022

As expected, water levels are at an all time low throughout the Moy system. This has a huge impact on angling and fish movement.

Water levels recorded at Ballylahan Bridge on the Monday morning were 0.195m (waterlevel.ie) and rose slightly at the weekend after some long awaited rain to 0.352m on Sunday night. Fishery managers are all saying this is not enough to flush out the river and say more rain is needed to “freshen” up the system. Sixteen grilse and one sea trout were reported, with 4 grilse released plus the sea trout.

The Moy Fishery recorded 1 salmon and 1 sea trout for the week, all released.

Byrne’s Fishery reported 3 grilse all caught on the prawn from their water.

The Foxford Fishery reported 5 grilse, all caught on bubble and fly.

Foxford Salmon Anglers reported 2 salmon from their Rinnaney stretch.

Foxford Rocks Fishery reported 2 salmon for the week.

East Mayo Anglers recorded 3 salmon for the week, and all released.

Prizes are hard earned by Erne anglers

25 anglers took to the banks on the Erne system during the week to battle it out in the 4-day River Erne 100 event. The fishing was tough right from the outset, with only a couple double figure bags of 11.4kg and 12.4kg, with the majority scoring below 5kg for the day. And things didn’t get any better as the week went on, with the average weight per angler per day being a poor 3.3kg. By the final day of the competition, it was tight at the top, with Tony Green’s total of 30.2 just pipping Martin Bendell’s 29.28 to win him the prize money.

More BFT action reported from the Northwest

A number of bluefin boats based in the northwest enjoyed another great week of tuna action.

Adrian Molloy of tuna.ie reported five bluefin tuna to the boat today (Thursday 9th Sept.). Earlier in the week conditions were a little tougher but tuna also showed up in good numbers.

Smiling faces for customers of tuna.ie

Killybegs Fishing Trips also had a mad day at the bluefin tuna with a total of four hook-ups. One fish of 90 inches and about 435 lbs. was caught, tagged and safely released.

Killybegs Fishing Trips doing well

It has also been a busy time for TunaMick with four groups of customers and the Marine Institute managing 28 fine fish, of a wide range of sizes, to the boat. The fish measured from 180cm to 245cm. The 245cm fish was every bit of 600 lbs. and strong.

Marine Institute tagging a fish

A little further south fishing out of Mullaghmore, Declan Kilgannon, skipper of Kiwi Girl, also reported great tuna action during the past week.

Go Fishing…

Tuna CHART

Tuna CHART (CatcH and Release Tagging) utilises authorised vessels to catch, tag and release Atlantic Bluefin Tuna for data collection purposes off the Irish coast.  The programme,  developed by Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Marine Institute in partnership with the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department for Environment, Climate and Communications, operated on a pilot basis in 2019 and 2020.

 

Rain brings fresh flush of fish to Waterville

Vincent Appleby reports on the week’s fishing on the Waterville Fishery:

7/9/2022 A good flood has a lot to answer for and here are some of yesterday’s and today’s answers. First we go back to yesterday, local C&R Inny angler caught and released 5 salmon. Now for today’s facts, we start on the Commeragh with 4 salmon caught, then we head downstream to Lough Currane where there was some good action, one Salmon caught on the fly and one caught on the troll. In the Sea Trout department there were 8 Sea Trout caught on the fly. Now we head downstream to the World-famous Butler Pool and at www.watervillegolflinks.ie  Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of Waterville Boats and at [email protected] and his clients caught 3 Salmon on the fly. Staying with Waterville Boats and at [email protected]  in Michael’s hired-out boat department his client caught a few nice Brown Trout on the drift. Wind SE veered ENE light to fresh at times followed by heavy showers throughout the day.

6/9/2022 We start today’s report on yesterday’s notes and for good reason; as I said yesterday the Currane Anglers were left standing on the shoreline. Well it didn’t take them long to march off to the C&R River Inny where there was some good action with 3 Salmon in the morning, now back to the present, There was some good action on the Waterville Fishery today, we start on Lough Currane in the drifting department, one boat reported that they caught 9 Sea Trout ranging from Juniors up to 2 lb plus a good few Brownies. Now we head for the C&R River Inny, On the morning stint there were 6 Salmon caught, come afternoon there were another 4 Salmon caught and this evening there was one cracker of a Salmon caught and released in the 14lb class. Wind SE fresh and variable with good cloud cover. Yesterday’s amount of rainfall was 31.6 mm.

5/9/2022 The Currane Anglers were left standing on the shore of Lough Currane as a strong SSE blew across the lake with gusts up to 49 mph followed by heavy torrential rain at times, amount of rainfall yesterday was 14.8 mm.

4/9/2022 All quiet in all departments this day, wind SSE fresh and overcast followed by heavy rain this evening. Just for the record, I didn’t have any reports of any rod benders yesterday.

3/9/2022 I have the very sad news to report that Mrs. Mary O’Sullivan RIP, the good wife of Mr. Brod O’Sullivan and Currane angler of Stella Maris, Waterville, sadly passed away. So, on behalf of all the Currane anglers from Ireland to the US to Canada and across the Atlantic to the UK and mainland Europe and from all over the World, we send our Sincere Sympathy’s to her husband Brod, daughters Sadie, Colette, and Mary Denise and all their Family and Friends. On a personal note, well, Mary RIP you may have departed from this World into that Heavenly Bed and Breakfast, and my God, did you do a cracker of a Breakfast and your evening meals were out of this world and the same goes for your picnic baskets and as they say our loss is Heaven’s gain. Mrs. Mary O’Sullivan Rest in Peace.

2/9/2022 Well the picture tells the story as you can see Lough Currane is as silent as the Lambs, even though there was one boat manipulating the Currane waters but as of yet, their fingers aren’t working so I take that as no good? Now to the weather, wind WNW and veered SW light and overcast all day. Kerry is on a yellow rain warning so click and you will see the amount of rainfall up to next Sunday.

1/9/2022 Lough Currane was all quiet in all departments which isn’t surprising the sun was blazing down on the Waterville Fishery. Wind was light and all over the place from the East to the SW and veered into NW at lunchtime.

Jim Clohessy makes the most of a few hours of settled weather

The calm before the storm

Jim Clohessy took a look at the weather charts last week and realised he was going to be shorebound for a while so he made the most of a brief weather window to cast a few lures in the vicinity of Cork Harbour. Launching his boat from Paddy’s Point he found the pontoon there to be pretty handy in taking the hassle out of getting the boat on the water. He tried a few drifts close to the shore outside the harbour and managed a bass before the wind and tide put the fish off.

Bass on a soft plastic sandeel imitation

Then he went a bit further offshore to some reefs east of Power Heading search of pollack, and the move paid off as he landed some good pollack to 8lb before the weather turned and he had to head for shore.

The pollack liked a similar style of lure

Last cast drama for West Cork (Senior) anglers, but it’s the juniors that lead the way

West Cork and District SAC were back on the beaches after a long summer break as they hit Garrylucas Beach on the Old Head of Kinsale for an evening match. 12 seniors and 3 juniors turned out, and they got straight into the action with a steady stream of fish coming in for the first half hour or so. Unfortunately, the action slowed down considerably after that, and fish became few and far between. In the end, it came down to the last cast, and it was a close call in the senior section as Pete Davis, on 176 points, pipped Stephen O’Donovan, who ended up on 175 and JP Molloy, who had 171. However, the top angler of the night came from the junior section, as Liam Davis romped home with a smashing 259 points to put the seniors in their places. 11 species were caught on the night LSD, Bass, Flounder, Coalfish, Garfish, Turbot, Conger, Pouting, Whiting, Gilthead Bream and Pollack. See West Cork and District SAC Facebook for a full report.

Belturbet Festival Underway

The Belturbet Festival kicked off on Sunday 4th with an open match to get things warmed up and if the winning net from the open is anything to go by, the festival itself should be a cracker.

David Stewart won the open match with a massive 58kg760 of bream, roach and hybrids – certainly a red letter day for him, the stuff you normally only dream about.

While there were no 58kg hauls on day one of the festival itself, there were several in the 18-30kg bracket. The club put in some serious graft to get Derryvona back on the festival map and four of the top six weights from day one came from there – so the hard work is really paying off!

We’ll bring you full results next week.

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