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July report from Costelloe & Fermoyle fishery

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Brian Curran, fishery manager at Costelloe & Fermoyle, reports on the month’s fishing:

The month of July has seen the runs of salmon and sea trout continue with only small amounts of rain. The flood in late June kept the system’s water level high and allowed fish to enter and run up the river and into the loughs for several weeks.
There have been 11 salmon caught and most were released. There was a small rise in levels from a short burst of rain on Saturday 23rd July, and that fresh water stirred both the salmon and sea trout into taking. On Monday 25th July, Head Ghillie Sean Bollustrum had a 7lb salmon while local Spiddal angler Thomas Naughton had his first salmon this year of 3 3/4lbs while John Holstead, from west Kerry (may have got lost on his way back from Croke Park), had 1 salmon and lost two more from Fermoyle Lough.

Costelloe and Fermoyle continues to be ranked as one of the leading seatrout fisheries in Ireland and in recent days has seen father and son Martin and Robert Byrne catch 8 seatrout from loughs in the upper part of the system  while John Holstead’s party also on Wednesday 27th July had 6 seatrout.

With higher tides this week and more rain expected early next week, angling conditions should be good over the coming period.

Bookings can be made through the web site, irelandwestangling.ie or by contacting Fishery Manager Brian Curran at 0872509722.

Down and out on the shark hunt in West Cork

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Skipper Dave Edwards of West Cork Charters, and crewmate Paddy, took advantage of the brilliant weather and a cancellation last weekend to trial a few shark lures on the Silver Dawn’s new downriggers. He headed south westerly from Baltimore and trolled for a couple of days with very little sign of wildlife and only a few dolphins to break the calm – even after covering 140 miles of water.

Finally, on Sunday, he did get a couple of takes on the downriggers and surprisingly they were blue sharks that were clearly pumped up by the warm surface temperature, giving great accounts of themselves. Not the Mako they were dreaming of but still a great two days messing about on the water!

Dave was experimenting with mixed lures and mackerel/pollack/squid baits and fished two on downriggers and two just sub surface.

Finally a shark onboard

Go fishing…

West Cork Charters operates the Silver Dawn, a 41′ Rodman 1250 with twin 430 HP Engines out of Courtmacsherry. The range of fishing found within close range of Courtmacsherry is superb, with trips producing anything between 6 and 15 different species as a norm and in excess of 20 is possible if anglers are prepared to change methods and use different baits and lures throughout their trip. As a rule mackerel, pollock, cod and ling are usually encountered but several species of wrasse along with whiting, pouting, coalfish, bull huss, conger and many more are often added to the catch.
If you do choose to head offshore to sample the superb shark fishing available within 10 miles of Courtmacsherry, there is a very strong chance of encountering blue sharks and an increasing chance of bringing a porbeagle shark to the boat.

Address: The Pier, Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.
Telephone: +353 (83) 449 1403
Email: [email protected]

Web: www.irelandseaangling.com

Enter your club in the NCFFI All Ireland Championships for Clubs 2022

By
Paul O'Reilly
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The NCFFI invites your club to present a team at the 2022 edition of the All Ireland Championships for clubs. The five person team event is float fishing only to CIPS/FIPS rules with a 13m pole limit. The championships will take place over the weekend of 20th & 21st August on the Upper Lough Erne in County Fermanagh hosted by the ERNE Anglers.  Bait limits apply.

Entry is open to NCFFI member clubs at €125 per team. Registration is in advance with payment for the €25 administration fee only. €100 pools will be collected on the day and shared among the winning teams. Clubs may enter as many teams as they wish. Book in at https://www.ncffi.ie/flcq

The draw will take place at the Carrybridge Lakeside Lodge. Sections to be fished may include Bellanaleck, Schools, Innismore Viaduct, Dolan’s Ring and Cleenish and are dependent on numbers.

The championship will also serve to select the club teams to represent Ireland, at the FIPSed World Club Championships to be held in Poland in 2023. There may be an opportunity for two teams to qualify dependent on availability to be confirmed by the host nation at a later stage.

Entry to qualify is €225 per team. The €25 pegging/administration fee will be collected on-line in advance along with the €100 to be awarded to the qualifying teams. A further €100 pools is payable on the day.

All clubs are invited to take part in the championships. Eligibility rules apply only to those who wish to qualify to represent Ireland with the option to present a team including two foreign nationals i.e. those who do no hold a UK/NI or Eire passport.

Entry closes 13th August. Details have been sent to all member club secretaries.

East Coast Small Boat Open Championship – August 6-7, 2022

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Howth Sea Angling Club are looking for anglers to register for their Open Boat Species Hunt Competition on the 6th – 7th of August.

There are up to €5,000 available in prizes with some top sponsors on board.
There is ample free parking and a limited number of free overnight boat berths in Howth for boats wishing to travel. There is also a limited number of trailer parking spaces still available for participants wishing to enter the competition.
Daily prizes each day on nominal species.
Interested parties should contact them via their Facebook page, email [email protected] or WhatsApp 0879175618.

Belturbet Angling Festival draws to a close

By
Paul O'Reilly
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A solid 46.5kg on day one, the best weight of the week, made up the bulk of Wayne Easter’s 65kg overall that held off strong competition from Julian Kendrick and Dave Pickering to see Wayne win the Belturbet Angling Festival this week. Killykeen/Derries was the strongest section all week with 150kg-160kg caught each day. Gulladoo, Glasshouse and Town Lake posted lower numbers but fished fairly consistently all week.

With a couple of late drop-outs, there were 38 anglers fishing in a strong field over the four days of the event.

Total weights on day four were:

  • A Section: 162kg 825
  • B Section:  33kg 525
  • C Section:  54kg 490
  • D Section:  37kg 525

Daily overall – Day Four

  • 1st Francis McGoldrick 25kg 175
  • 2nd Baz Smith 21kg 000
  • 3rd Nicky Harrison 17kg 875
  • 4th Andrew Gregg 17kg 575
  • 5th Paul Leese 17kg 250
  • 6th Seamie Winters 16kg 250
  • 7th Mick Smith 12kg 250
  • 8th John Potters 12kg 049
  • 9th Pete Riley 11kg 709
  • 10th Frank Smith 11kg 325

BELTURBET

 

Team Ireland wins youths’ Home Countries international event

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Congratulations to Team Ireland who retained the Bob Church Trophy with a comprehensive victory in the Home Countries fly fishing international held this week on Lough Lene in Westmeath. Conditions were difficult over the two practice days and the competition day itself on Wednesday, but the Irish anglers persevered and managed to land fourteen fish to take the honours.

Team Ireland

The official standings were:

  • 1st IRELAND
  • 2nd ENGLAND
  • 3rd WALES
  • 4th SCOTLAND

The Team of 14 and a reserve was magnificently lead by Jim Kelly, a member of the renowned Kelly’s of Cloghans on the shores of Lough Conn and a 4th generation international angler.

The winner of the Brown Bowl was Eanna O’Leary with a superb catch of 6 fish, which are still swimming in Lough Lene as the match was of course run on a catch and release basis. In fact, Eanna won every category that he was eligible for, Brown Bowl, Longest Fish overall, Best Bag and Best Fish on the Irish Team.

The team was coached by Sean Dempsey, Denis Goulding, Ken McCarthy and the previous Brown Bowl winner, Chris Fehilly.

The team manager was Noel Farrar, who had this to say:

‘There were many extremely important contributors to the success of the team. Although I mention Jackie McMahon for his fabulous flies and Tom Sullivan for the Fulling Mill Fluorocarbon there were others too numerous to mention but equally appreciated. Many thanks to all’.

‘Lastly we acknowledge the contribution financially and physically in preparing and monitoring the match that both Inland Fisheries Ireland and Westmeath Co.Co. have provided’.

Inland Fisheries Ireland are proud to have sponsored the event, full marks to the anglers, the coaches, the organisers and all of the support who contributed to the successful outcome for the Irish team.

Collinstown, Co. Westmeath, was a hive of activity on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings as the youth teams from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales prepared to fish. Boats were brought from moorings around the lake to The Cut on the eastern shoreline, where teams, coaches and their families had assembled each morning in preparation for the off.

Tackling up

Great fishing this week on the Dingle peninsula

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Owenmore upper lakes

Frank Maunsell reports from earlier this week on the Owenmore river in Kerry:

25th July 2022
Since the water levels have dropped we are having terrific fishing. All the fish that should have been coming in during the dry spell have arrived together. Now it’s still raining in the hills which means the river is rising and falling but everybody is meeting fish and seeing fish running through. On Sunday alone there were 15 grilse landed and numerous seatrout. The river is a little high at the time of writing but will be perfect before long.

Owenmore River

 

Ireland on the Fly podcast: Finding the Soul of Angling with Garrett Fallon

By
Shane O'Reilly
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This week’s Ireland on the Fly guest is Garrett Fallon – someone who grew up in Ireland fishing the Boyne, Corrib, Deel and other rivers and lakes around the country but since the 1990s, he has been in England working in publishing and design.

The last few years however has seen him combine his love of fishing, writing and publishing to create the very popular fishing quarterly, Fallon’s Angler, which is dedicated to longform writing about every type of angling with the likes of Chris Yates and Kevin Parr featuring in each issue.

Garrett is also the son of Niall Fallon, an Irish Times journalist who wrote the well-respected Fly Fishing for Irish Trout in 1983 and Daire and Tom speak to Garrett about his father’s influence growing up, his own memories of fishing in Ireland and why Fallon’s Angler has helped him find the soul of angling along the way.

Rate, review and follow on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts from, plus you can keep up to date on IrelandontheFly.com.

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Wrecks producing plenty of quality pollack for Wicklow Boat Charters

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The recent spell of settled weather has allowed Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters to head out to some east coast wrecks recently. Kit has put a fair bit of work into developing these wreck marks in recent years, and they are certainly paying back that work given the quality of the pollack his anglers are bagging! The pick of the bunch was a superb 12lb specimen-sized fish for Matt Somers, and there have been a few others close to that stamp.

 A meaty 12lb of east coast wreck pollack!

 

Go Fishing

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

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

Tough days for anglers on Conn & Cullin

By
IFI
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Kevin O’Boyle reports from Loughs Conn & Cullin…

The lakes are fishing poor at present with water temperatures high and fish seem to be inactive with fly life very spare on the water. Local anglers are saying no fish are moving at all.

Peter Roche from Cloghans fished 2 evenings last week and had 4 small trout just under a pound to a dry Daddy Long Legs along Brackwansha and Cormorant Rocks. All fish were released alive. The second evening produced one trout to the boat in Castlehill Bay. The fish weighed around one lb and was released.

Best of luck and tight lines to local trout angler, Jim Kelly from Cloghans, who is the captain of the Irish team and taking part in the Four Nations Youth International Fly-Fishing Competition on Lough Lene, Collinstown!

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