The Bride continues to fish very well for Trout, with Nymphs being the most productive method of taking Trout.
River conditions and water levels on the Bride River for the period started out a little above normal during the week but fined out to ideal conditions later in the week.
Trout angling has also been described as excellent on the main channel Blackwater & also on its tributaries such as the Funshion, Awbeg & Allua.
River conditions during the early portion of the week would have been above normal, but they have since fined out to ideal levels, especially for Trout angling.
ANGLING REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING SUNDAY 24TH OF APRIL 2022
Last week we had a good improvement in water levels and with it came the salmon. There were 5 fish reported 3 on fly 1 spinning and 1 on worm. There were many more lost with one angler hooking 3 in a few hours . All these fish were reported on Bandon angling association waters. The water has dropped off now but there is still plenty water to bring fish in off the tide.
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A popular river with a good name for salmon and sea trout fishing. Most of the fishing is held by clubs, but day tickets are widely available. Find out more at:
Bandon Angling Association have set up a guiding service in conjunction with Jason Nash, Peter Aspinwall and Phil Dewey. Details of the guiding service are provided on the website and they are looking forward to making memories and enhancing people’s fishing experiences on the river Bandon. Day tickets and club membership are also available. Web: https://bandonangling.com/
21/4/2022 Nice to see a few boats out this day but sadly their lines stayed slack and believe it or not. It made a nice flood early this morning and there was a fine current in the Mouth of Commeragh, followed by a nice light to fresh SE wind with good cloud cover. Even though the conditions were in favour of the angler, the Wild Atlantic Salmon stayed deep. Now back to yesterday, I failed to report that there was a fine C&R 3 lbs Sea Trout caught by Currane Angler Mr. Timm Van DER Lean of Holland, just for the record Timm caught his fine Sea Trout on the troll while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Terence Wharton Snr. My apologies again to Timm and his Gillie Terence for miserably failing in my duties in reporting their fine Sea Trout. Now we head for the RTE archives and it’s a mighty cracker of the old days and we can all learn from these words of wisdom.
22/4/2022 Good fishing conditions this day with a nice wind again from the SE. Sadly there were no takers in the fly department but the same could not be said in the trolling department there was a great C&R of a Salmon in the 10 lbs class by a Currane client and his Gillie.
23/4/2022 All Salmon headlines go to Canadian Currane angler Mr. Dan Benvenuti and for good reason. While fishing out of Waterville Boats and at Watervilleboats@gmail.com caught and released a fine Salmon on the troll. For the rest of the Currane anglers it was all quiet on all fronts. On the weather front, there was bright sunshine all day, wind ENE light.
24/4/2022 Just a few boats out this day and for all their efforts their lines stayed slack in all departments. Wind E and come afternoon veered WSW light with good cloud cover.
25/4/2022 Currane anglers were all quiet on all fronts this day in all departments. Just for the record there were five boats out. Wind SE light to fresh with reasonable cloud cover.
26/4/2022 Lough Currane was all quiet on all fronts and that includes the Currane anglers, sadly nowhere to be seen on the Currane waters. Wind SSE light and variable, bright and sunny but with reasonable cloud cover at times.
27/4/2022 All quiet on the SW front in all departments this day. Wind SE light to fresh, mainly bright and sunny but at times there was good cloud cover.
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:
Skipper Sean Maguire and his guests took advantage of some lovely spring weather over the last week, getting offshore from Loop Head and enjoying some great fishing.
Fine spring sunshine
Mackerel, pollack, haddock and even megrim were among the species caught, with some very happy anglers enjoying the glorious weather too.
A full house of mackerel, a welcome sight on any charter boat!PollackMegrim are not a very common catchAnother nice pollack in glorious sunshineLovely weather and a fine pollack for this angler
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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:fishadven@gmail.comWeb:www.fishingadventures.ie
Loughs Barfinnihy and Fadda open on Sunday, 1st of May, and offer a great option to anglers looking for somewhere to go this bank holiday Monday.
Lough Fadda and Barfinnihy Lake in Co. Kerry open to angling once more on May 1st. Both lakes have been generously stocked with top quality triploid rainbow trout ahead of the opening day. These hard fighting fish should be well rested and raring to go on Sunday.
IFI’s other stocked fisheries in the South West, Lough Bofinne and Shepperton Lake in Co. Cork, both opened on April 1st and anglers are reporting good fishing from both venues.
As another skipper said recently, “There are two good days when you own a boat – the day you buy her and the day you sell her“. Hat tip to Luke Aston for the quote. We anglers turn up on our booked day, step aboard and go fishing for the day. We don’t see all the hard work, maintenance, cleaning and upgrading that skippers do on a daily, weekly and annual basis to keep their boats in top condition for us to enjoy.
John Fleming certainly worked hard this week, up in the middle of the night to get his boat, the Brazen Hussy up on the slipway on the high tide at 3.30am. Then followed a hard day of washing, cleaning and replacing the prop. If he’d remembered to order the antifoul he could even have done that job too! Next time, John!
Drying out and ready for cleaning
After that it was back to the water to test out the new prop, or rather the old prop back on to replace the disappointing new one. Did we mention two good days owning a boat?
Cruising speed! Back in action.
After all that, there was still some fishing done, and John says the pollack fishing was excellent over the weekend, with really nice conditions in shelter at the back of the islands. If you ask us, there is no more scenic place to fish than offshore from Aran on a fine day! Just the one mackerel came aboard, but there were plenty of coalies mixed in with the pollack too.
A nice pollack aboard the Brazen Hussy II
Lovely fishing in blue sky weather
Another nice pollack
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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
Scouting Ireland and Tulla District Angling Club are working together to facilitate the donation any old Fishing gear that may be unwanted to Ukrainian Refugees residing at the scout den in Killaloe/ Two Mile Gate.
Just something to help them pass the time.
Tulla DAC has set up drop off points at
Fishing tackle Ireland in Ennis (Unit 8, Quin Road Business Park, Quin Rd, Bunnow, Ennis, Co. Clare)
Mckoeghs hardware in Ballina
Vaughans hardware in Tulla.
The club will also happily collect donated gear at any of their competitions. Their next Pike competition is this Sunday 11 to 4 at Clonlea.
For more information or to arrange collection contact the Club Secretary by SMS or WhatsApp on 0871546804
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Tulla District Angling Club is a Pike and Coarse fishing club founded over 50 years ago. They are based in East Clare, Munster, Ireland.
Fermoy are 2022 Munster Coarse Angling Council Team of Four league winners. Congratulations to Tommy, Trevor, Pat and Dick on a constant performance throughout the series of matches.
Munster Coarse Anglers hosted the match, which split across two lakes in East Clare.
Clondorny proved to be the most consistent than Kilgory with two 5kg+ weights for the two Munster CA team mates Kevin Leahy and Ray Linton winning there respective sections and giving the team winners on the day and securing them second place over all.
Well done to Pawel Swistun who came top of the individual rankings with a impressive 5pts.
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Kilgory Lake is is located 5 kms from Tulla and is regarded as one of the most important lakes in the area. Predominant species are Roach, Tench, Hybrids and Bream.
Clondorney Lake located 2 kms north of Tulla. The lake holds most species of coarse fish but is especially noted for its rudd and bream fishing.
For more information about these and more venues in the Tulla Angling Centre see this link:
Munster Coarse Angling Club was set up to support, encourage, promote coarse angling in Munster, to organise and run competitions and leagues on the lower Shannon, and on the East Clare Lakes. They are affiliated to the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI the National Governing body for coarse and predator fishing and . www.ncffi.ie
The Munster Coarse Angling Council is a provincial council of the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI – the NGB for coarse and predator angling in Ireland. www.ncffi.ie
Inniscarra Lake continued to produce for the feeder anglers as the second of its spring festivals came to a close. Cavan angler Neil Mazurek finished the 3 day Dave Bacon Memorial competition, sponsored by O’Callaghans Bar & Guest House, with 64.160kg, 9kg ahead of fellow club member and runner up Alan Larkin from Dublin.
Visiting regulars Dale Malpas 54.300kg and Stu Blunsom 49.430kg finished 3rd and 4th.
Neil Mazurek
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Inniscarra Lake TDL are based on this prolific reservoir, home of the Coachford greenway is host to a number of open matches and competition throughout the year. Inniscarra Lake TDL are affiliated to the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI the National Governing body for coarse and predator fishing and . www.ncffi.ie
Coarse angling in the south west of Ireland is centred on the River Lee system with the central sections of the system; Inniscarra and Carrigadrohid lakes. This area offers excellent bream, rudd, bream-rudd hybrid angling, with Inniscarra playing host to a number of international competitions. Permits are required and can be purchased online.
Portumna regular Dave Brooks bags First Place on the last day of the Portumna Spring Festival festival, with 55lbs of roach caught on the pole. Anglers enjoyed some great river fishing on the mighty Shannon for the Spring Festival after a two year break, with popular match sections Rodgers and Town producing some top catches.
It came down to the last day of this points based competition which saw Dave win with a perfect 4 points leaving runner-up Stuart Greene one point behind.
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Portumna Coarse Angling Club
Portumna Coarse Angling Clubare affiliated to the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, the National Governing Body for coarse and predator angling. www.ncffi.ie
Portumna is located on the River Shannon at the Northern end of Lough Derg in Co Galway – about 55 kms from Limerick and 80 km from Shannon Airport.
This is a prime coarse angling centre renowned for its quality angling with specialist operators who are geared to cater for angling tourists. For more information on Portumna and it’s seven main angling venues see the link below:
