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More tope, huss and ray in Wicklow Bay

A second report this week from Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters – this time targeting tope, huss and ray. Kit has been making the most of the fine weather and the fishing has been excellent for him and his anglers.

It was Alan Buchannon’s crew on board this time and the anglers were kept busy inshore and offshore with plenty of the target species recorded, including a fine specimen tope which came in at 161cm long / 58cm girth, though a modest weight at 42lb.

It was a typical day targeting the big ones, on an inshore mark where more than 20 tope are regularly recorded among the huss, ray, hounds and gurnard. Kit reckons the odd mackerel were showing but not enough to get excited about.

Go fishing…

Wicklow Boat Charters

Angling Charters are offered on a full-day, half-day and evening trip basis and can be tailored to suit your needs. Two boats 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 methods of angling.

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

Inny salmon last week, suntan lotion this week in Waterville

Lough Currane

This report from Vincent Appleby of www.salmonandseatrout.com:

Waterville Fisheries Report Aug 3rd – 10th

10/8/2022 The suntan lotions were the catch as the sun blasted down on SW Kerry as you can see by the photo of Ballinskelligs Bay courtesy of http://thecrescentwaterville.ie/   Wind WSW light and veered NNW this evening. 

9/8/2022 The heat wave takes all headlines so on that note we head out into Ballinskelligs Bay with Mr. Robert Elson of http://thecrescentwaterville.ie/  for his Catch of the day, two ready cooked Lobsters, all I can say is bon appétit. Wind SE Veered SW light and variable.

8/8/2022 More than a 100 years of Hotel Management At The Butler Arms Hotel, Waterville officially comes to an end today and it’s a very sad day in my opinion, especially when the curtain comes down on more than 100 years of providing a great service by the Huggard Family to tourists from all over the world, from the President of Ireland to Charlie Chaplin and the not so famous. So, on behalf of the Currane Anglers, all the good people of Waterville and from all over the Globe we wish Mrs. Mary Huggard and her family all the best for the future.

Now today’s Manipulations all quiet on all fronts need I say more. Wind NNW light and variable followed by bright sunshine all day.

7/8/2022 The Currane suntan anglers were all quiet in all departments as you can see why by the Rod Stuart photo. WNW light and variable followed by bright sunshine all day.

6/8/2022 The Currane and Inny anglers were all quiet in all departments this day? Just for the record there was one C&R Inny angler manipulating his skills and was up there for a good while, fair play to him, on that note did he or didn’t he is the question? Wind East veered W and veered again into WNW light followed by bright sunshine.

5/8/2022 All quiet on the Inny, mind you I say that with a stutter, so on that note we head down to the World-Famous Butler Pool and at www.watervillegolflinks.ie where there was a nice bit of action with two Salmon caught on the fly. Wind NNW light, followed by the odd shower this morning followed by reasonable cloud cover.

4/8/2022 We start on the Commeragh where there was one Cork angler manipulating his Skills, sadly I can’t confirm whether he caught one but all I do know he walked off the Commeragh and headed for the C&R River Inny, so I take it his lines were slack on the Commeragh? Talking of the Inny I can confirm that there was 5 Salmon caught by other Inny C&R anglers. On Lough Currane it was all quiet on all fronts. Wind light North and veered NNW in the afternoon with reasonable cloud cover.

3/8/2022 All the Salmon headlines come from the C&R River Inny with 7 Salmon reported caught. Just for the record the total amount of rainfall that the Waterville Fishery got over the August Bank Holiday was a grand total of 26.1 mm. Wind light WNW followed good cloud cover.

VIDEO: Tralee Bay Grand Slam

James Raymond is no stranger to these reports, and he is back with another great video for his Irish Angling Adventures channel. James was fishing Tralee Bay on a recent session over 2 days, and decided to try for the elusive Tralee Bay Grand Slam. This entails catching the 4 species of ray available in the bay – thornback, painted, undulate and sting ray. To make it even more difficult, they must be caught in the space of 24 hours!

Check out the video below, and see how James got on. Will he catch his grand slam???

 

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Well done James, and we look forward to seeing more sea angling content soon!

Bass and pollack from Galway Bay

Michael with a nice shore-caught pollack

West coast rock fishing guru Vinny Corrigan has been out and about, doing some fishing on his own and guiding clients too. The south Connemara coastline offers a myriad of rock marks with great fishing for pollack and wrasse in particular, and Vinny loves putting his clients over nice fish.

Michael with a nice shore-caught pollack
A typical streamlined bar of gold

Vinny has also been exploring marks for bass, and found a couple of spots off the beaten track where silver bars have been keen to take his lure.

Vinny with a nice bass
A lpvely west coast bass

 

Taking in the view. It’s not all about the fishing!

With a few weeks left in the summer, but the good fishing continuing well into autumn, Vinny has some availability for guided fishing for hard-fighting pollack and wrasse. Check out his contact details below to book.

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Vinny also wrote a great article in the American magazine The Surfcasters Journal about how he got into light lure fishing off the rocks here, and the techniques he prefers. Check it out here (the article is on page 47): Surfcaster’s Journal (surfcastersjournal.com)

 

Go Fishing – Wild Atlantic Lure Fishing

Vincent will be offering one on one guided rock fishing from summer, mainly for wrasse and pollack, and all within 1 hour of Galway city. I have fished with him myself, and can vouch for his knowledge of tackle, tactics and species.

Contact [email protected] for more info.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildatlanticlurefishing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildatlanticlurefishing/
Youtube: www.lurefishing.ie

Vincent also has an online shop with a range of hooks, jigheads, shads for lure angling. Check it out at www.jigheads.ie

Lisdoonvarna Fanore International Angling Week Back With A Bang

The annual Lisdoonvarna Fanore International Angling Week was held over the first week of August, with 4 competitions over the week on various rock marks in north Clare. There was fierce competition, but all in friendly spirits, as anglers returned to their haunts, many for the first time since before Covid.

Some fantastic fish were landed over the week, including some decent conger eels, with plenty of wrasse, pollack and smaller species too. Most impressive, however, were some of the tope, which must have given some great sport!

Cian Egan with a nice tope off the rocks
Joe Byrne with a decent fish
A strap conger for this angler
A fine ballan wrasse
And another one

After 4 days of competition, friendly banter, and we’re sure a few pints of refreshments, the overall winner was Kinvara man Mike Curtin, no stranger to the winner’s podium at this festival! Mike had a very impressive score of 421 points, well ahead of the field.

In second place was Sean Copley, with 257 points, while Joe Ryan took third on 236, just one point ahead of Fionn Byrne. Wexford angler Joe Byrne was 5th on 227.

The winning team again featured Mike Curtin, joined by Fionn Byrne and Jim Whitty. Well done all!

Getting bigger – a nice conger
Joe Birney looking comfortable, and catching pollack too!

Overall winner Mike Curtin with a lovely tope

Go Fishing

Lisdoonvarna Fanore SAC is an active sea angling based in north Clare. They hold regular competitions and outings throughout the year, with the highlight being the International Week around the August bank holiday weekend. New members are always welcome. Check them out here to get in touch.

Irish Feedermasters Qualifier number 5

A turnout of thirty three competitors fished the Irish Feedermasters Qualifier number 5 on Sunday on a bright and sunny Lough Muckno.Unfavourable conditions aside some good fishing was seen throughout with venue expert Robertas taking the day off middle Concra on 17.kgs of nice feeder caught Skimmers, topped up by some quality Roach.

His compatriot Rimantas came second off Black Island with 14.5 kgs, followed by Johnny Keith on 12 kgs. The final place on the podium went to Adrian Van Der Heever from Concra middle also.

Qualifiers today were.

    • Stephen Whyte
    • Rimantas
    • Johnny Keith.

Places were

      • 1st Robertas
      • 2nd Rimantas
      • 3rd Johnny Keith
      • 4th Adrian Van Der Heever

Sections

      • Steven Whyte
      • Noel McNulty
      • Paul Heaney
      • Richard Pratt
      • Paul Leese
      • Marius Killian

Lough Muckno

 

Ireland on the Fly Podcast, new episode: The River Bandon with Jason Nash

This from the team at the Ireland on the Fly pod:

Fishery Focus: The River Bandon with Jason Nash

One key aspect of the Ireland on the Fly podcast is to also bring you information and insights into the different fisheries around the country and so, every few weeks we will be bringing you episodes focusing on fisheries from those who know them best.

These fishery focus episodes will help anglers who are maybe thinking of visiting a new river or lough, to find out when it fishes well and where to get good information also

And if you want your fishery to be featured on future episodes then you can get in touch with us on Instagram.com/IrelandontheFly

This episode is on the River Bandon in Cork and Daire and Tom speak to Jason Nash, who grew up fishing the river along with his father and grandfather and where he is now a guide and fisheries consultant as well.

Jason Nash and a Bandon salmon

Keep up to date on IrelandontheFly.com as well as on Instagram.com/IrelandontheFly.

Young anglers take on the tope in Wicklow

Captain Kit and his young sidekicks

Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters hosted a pair of up and coming young anglers to some great fishing for tope in recent days.

The junior crew of Tadgh and Órán, accompanied by their dads, managed to land the two biggest tope of the five caught for the evening’s fishing.

The fish, one of an estimated 45lb and the other 156cm long, were both of specimen size and it was a case of the youngsters really showing the old fellas how it’s done!

Blue skies and calm seas, along with the super tope that were landed, made for a great evening’s fishing for all.

Go fishing…

Wicklow Boat Charters

Angling Charters are offered on a full-day, half-day and evening trip basis and can be tailored to suit your needs. Two boats 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 methods of angling.

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

Sea angling on the east coast

Mixed species for ‘deep water scratchers’ in Cork’s calm seas

Jim Clohessy has taken advantage of the fine weather and calm seas to put some distance between himself and dry land for some ‘deeper water scratching’! Fishing with crew mate Paul, the plan was to ditch the lures for the day and focus on bait fishing, but they only managed to eke out three mackerel and a few launce for their bait – so it was literally a case of the loaves and the fishes! Jim reckons that mackerel haven’t been easy to come by so far this year.

All calm at Paddy’s Point

With rationed bait they still managed to get some good fishing in blistering sunshine, with good numbers of haddock, big whiting, some cod and one decent hake that put up a great fight.

Jim has been out after blue shark as well lately, but the fish have been slow, even lethargic with a few swimming around the boat refusing to take a bait. Jim has clocked water surface temperatures of up to 18.7°C, which may have had an effect on things.

Sea angling in Cork Harbour

Great fishing in perfect water on the Owenmore last week, but good weather will bring bad fishing this week

Owenmore upper lakes

Frank Maunsell reports from the Owenmore Fishery in Kerry, where perfect water has seen some great fishing:

4th August 2022
We had some terrific fishing at the start of the week. We had a good number of grisle and seatrout caught and released. Even though the water level is a perfect height things started to slow down yesterday. Fish were still taking but we’re only holding on to the fly for a short while and letting it go. The water level will still be high enough for fishing tomorrow but with high pressure forecast for the weekend and fine weather for the rest of the week that will curb the fishing until we get the next rain.

Owenmore River

Make a booking

Contact Frank Maunsell for up to the minute information on water levels, fishing conditions and runs of fish.

Telephone: 066 7139408 Mobile: 087 9476309

Email: [email protected]
Web: www.owenmorefishery.ie