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New Year’s Open Match for IASCaire anglers

By
Paul O'Reilly
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IASCaire Feeder Fishing Club braved the bitter cold for a New Year’s Open Match on Rockfield Lough on January 3rd. After a freezing night of sub-zero temperatures, the hardy anglers who turned up knew it was going to be a tough day on the water – and it was certainly that!

Fishing proved to be every bit as difficult as they expected, but a beautiful, still winter’s morning made it all worthwhile. The sun breaking through the cold was something special, an unreal sight over the lake for everyone involved.

The big positive on the day… no-one blanked!

Top 3 Results:

  • Irmantas Sriupsa – 3.700kg (Bream Weather!)
  • Damian Foltyn AKA Irish Feeder – 2.490kg
  • Mariusz Kilian – 2.320kg

Well done to all involved and great to see the New Year started on the bank

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Leinster Coarse Anglers publish their 2026 Competition Calendar

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Leinster Coarse Fishing Federation has announced its competition calendar for 2026. It’s a pretty stacked roster that will keep members busy on the banks… We hope to be reporting on many of these events throughout the year, so stay tuned!

Ronan Murray & Trevor Martin win Ardee Anglers final boat comp of 2025

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Ardee Pike Anglers held their final club boat competition of the year, with a great turnout on the day. All boats managed to catch fish, although some crews enjoyed more success than others.

First place went to Ronan Murray and Trevor Martin, who also recorded the longest fish of the competition at 105 cm. Second place was claimed by Ian McGur and Robbie McShane, with Francie O’Hare and Anthony McCabe finishing in third.

In the overall standings for the longest fish competition across the year, Ronan Murray and Trevor Martin secured first place. Second place went to Ian McGur and Robbie McShane, while third place was shared by Lenny Hollywood and Ronan Murray.

Lurgan Coarse Anglers remember past members at Muckno Match

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Lurgan Coarse Anglers held their annual Memorial Cup match at South Lodge on Lough Muckno recently. 26 anglers turned out to fondly remember past members who are no longer with us. Fishing was tough due to extremely cold conditions, but top weight on the day was Andy Chapman who had a 3.750kg bag of roach with some hybrids and a bonus skimmer to win the match.

Top 4 Overall
1st Andy Chapman 3.750kg
2nd Steven Whyte 3.575kg
3rd Piotr Horbinski 3.550kg

4th Scooby 3.075kg

Ryan Blair and Drew Ferguson win inaugural South Shore SAC Winter Pairs Competition

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The report below was summarised from the South Shore SAC Facebook Page:

The inaugural South Shore SAC Winter Pairs Competition was held on Sunday, 28th December, at Kilgorman Beach. With light easterly winds and favourable conditions, 20 pairs took part, travelling from both north and south to support the event.

Fishing was promising from the start, with flounders taken close in and whiting found by those casting further. Ryan Blair and Drew Ferguson quickly set the pace on Peg 17, catching consistently, while strong performances were also reported from Team Ryan. Elsewhere, catches were patchy, consisting mainly of small bass, flounders, whiting, dabs, and pup spurdogs.

As darkness fell, spurdogs appeared in numbers, and the final hour and a half produced fast and hectic fishing, with some pairs landing up to 15 fish.

Ryan & Drew came out tops on the day

Ryan Blair and Drew Ferguson won the competition with a total of more than 1,000 points. Gary and Tony Foster finished second, followed by Eric Gasparro and Cian Corcoran in third. Stephen O’Reilly and Thomas Markey placed a very close fourth, just one point behind third.

Shore caught pollack close the 2025 accounts for Angling Adventures West Cork

By
Myles Kelly
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David Norman with a shore caught December pollack
David Norman with a shore caught December pollack

David Norman of Angling Adventures West Cork is back for 2026, reporting from West Cork…

Delighted to close out 2025 with some fine shore caught Pollack. The calm if chilly weather created the ideal opportunity to venture out and burn a few calories between the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

Really looking forward to 2026 and the new season ahead, which will be here before we know it!

David Edwards with a shore caught December pollack
David Norman with a shore caught December pollack

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Update: Salmon regulations 2026

By
Myles Kelly
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Moy salmon ready to be released

Salmon Anglers:

Open, closed and catch and release rivers, quotas and bye laws remain the same as in 2025 while the Department considers the views expressed in the Public Consultation as part of the process to finalise the Regulations, which is expected to be completed in the New Year.

Further updates will be published on this this website in due course.

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Kai Fischer and the 40cm perch that bit twice

By
Myles Kelly
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kai fischer perch
Kai Fischer and the perch that bit twice

Did Christmas come early or did lightening strike twice on Sunday? Kai Fischer is still not sure but one thing is for certain he beat the odds with his 40cm perch from Munster venue, because five minutes after he released it, the fish nailed his lure again!

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the perch hit the magic 40cm mark on the measuring mat

Kai was fishing for pike on Sunday, his first trip out this winter. He had no intention of targeting perch, fishing a Savage soft plastic shad on a 15gr jighead. The fishing was far from stellar, and nothing much was happening when suddenly, mid retrieve the rod went over and Kai was into a good fight. The drag was going and he assumed it was a pike. He got quite a surprise when the fish turned out to be a perch, but he was more than happy as it was far from small and made 40cm on the measuring mat.

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Kai Fischer and the perch that bit twice

Just 5 minutes and a few cast later, the rod went over again and once more the reel was zzzzz-ing away. He played the fish out and while it wasn’t surprising to see another perch, what was surprising was that this was the same perch again!

Well done Kai, that’s a hard one to beat.

 

Shane Cunningham wins Mariners Closed Cup and league Final

By
Myles Kelly
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Rolling surf
Rolling surf at Narin Strand

Angling club Killybegs Mariners reports on their League Final which did double duty as their Closed competition on Sunday, 21 December…

An easy like Sunday morning kinda day in West Donegal with gentle easterly breezes and blue sky’s with a big ground sea making huge noise disturbing the peace for the Mariners closed competition and the final league outing rolled into one.

Chasing the last of the ebbing tide so some good early fish with flounder to 36cm for Shane and 33cm for Stefan along with good turbot to 29cm for Aaron and 27cm for Brian as bites eased over the turn.

Scores for the overall league title were down to the wire with Darren Rawdon topping the board just ahead of Chris Whyte and Gavin Dorrian and all having fish early on.

On the day the top fishing was had by Shane Cunningham with 3 good counting turbot and 2 big flounders for 173pts winning the outing pot of €90 and Mariners closed winning prize a Penn Slammer reel. Well done Shane.

Shane Cunningham
Shane Cunningham (right) being presented with the Mariners closed cup along with €90 cash and a Penn Slammer reel by Cormac Burke (left) after winning today 1st overall

2nd place on the day and agonisingly close to the overall league win winning €45 and a Shakespeare seat box for 2nd in Mariners closed on the day with 144pts was Chris Whyte (another league prize to come)

And longest flattie outside the top 2 places on the day was won by Stefan Martin with a 33cm flounder winning €45 outing pot and a €50 voucher for Mooney boats.

Lucky peg draw was won by Pat Byrne Peg 12 winning €30.

And by coming 4th today and topping the overall league after all 12 outings with 199pts well done to Darren Rawdon. Prizes and presentations in our sponsors Mooney boats fishing tackle to follow for that.

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New anglers always welcome to join.

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Finn McCarthy wins 3 in a row at Oaklands

By
Myles Kelly
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Finn McCarthy

The 5th round of the Ger Hennesy Winter league will be the last match to be fished at Oaklands this year. Adrian Browne reports…

The final match of the year was fished on Sunday at Oaklands – the 5th round of Ger Hennesy Winter league.

Fishing was hard with the water temperatures at 3°C. John Browne kept up his good form winning the day with 19.690kg of Feeder caught carp.

Best junior on the day and second best weight on the lake was Finn McCarthy netting 19.530kg from peg 2.

Today’s Results

Seniors

1st John Browne 19.690 kg
2nd Adrian Browne 15.400 kg
3rd Kirean Reeves 12.940 kg

Juniors

1st Finn Mccarthy 19.530 kg
2nd Flynn Caufield 1.780 kg
3rd Michael Urbanski 0.690 kg

I’d like to thank everyone who supported the matches over the year and we look forward to seeing ye all again in ’26.

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Christmas Opening Times Oaklands lake
  • December 22nd, 23rd OPEN
  • December 24th Open till 1.00pm
  • December 25th, 26th, 27th CLOSED
  • December 28th, 29th OPEN
  • December 30th, 31st, and January 1st CLOSED

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OAKLANDS MATCH DATES 2026

JANUARY 11TH WINTER LEAGUE
JANUARY 25TH WINTER LEAGUE

FEBUARY 8TH WINTER LEAGUE

MARCH 22ND WINTER LEAGUE

APRIL 5TH WINTER LEAGUE

MAY 3RD SUMMER LEAGUE
MAY 16TH COMMERCAIL PAIRS DAY 1 NCFFI
MAY 17TH COMMERCIAL PAIRS DAY 2 NCFFI
MAY 24TH SUMMER LEAGUE

JUNE 7TH SUMMER LEAGUE
JUNE 28TH SUMMER LEAGUE

JULY 4TH DUNBRODY FESTIVAL DAY 1
JULY 5TH DUNBRODY FESTIVAL DAY 2
JULY 11TH METHOD FEEDER QUALIFER NCFFI
JULY 12TH SUMMER LEAGUE
JULY 26TH SUMMER LEAGUE

AUGUST 16TH SUMMER LEAGUE
AUGUST 30TH METHOD FEEDER FINAL NCFFI

SEPTEMBER 6TH SUMMER LEAGUE
SEPTEMBER 12TH AMERICAN PAIRS FUNDRAISER MATCH
SEPTEMBER 20TH SUMMER LEAGUE

OCTOBER 4TH SUMMER LEAGUE

 

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