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Cold seas in Clare but fishing expected to heat up soon

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Macks are back in Clare

Some of our Clare based charter skippers were out on the water this week and found that cold sea temperatures somewhat hampered catches. Luke Aston of Carrigaholt Sea Angling was on his first outing of the season and found the going slow but still found a few mackerel and a mix of other species including Pollack, Coalies and Whiting.

Macks are back in Clare

Sean Maguire of Fishing Adventures Ireland was also out on the water and found the going slow as well, but things picked up when the tide turned and the pollack started hitting the baits.

Pollack respond well to turning tide

Fishing is expected to get going over the next few weeks as the water temperatures begin to rise.

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
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Clare Dragoon

Clare Dragoon is a LOCHIN 366 powered by 650HP engine, skippered by Luke Aston and operating out of Carrigaholt Co. Clare…

I have some offers up on my web site www.fishandstay.com and if anybody is interested in putting a trip together please do get in touch. Also I Twitter from the boat on @fishandstay and try to update my face book page www.facebook.com/CarrigaholtSeaAngling fairly often!To experience some of the best deep sea fishing available in Ireland contact Luke.
Telephone: +353 65 9058209 or +353 87 6367544
Email: lukeaston@eircom.net Web: www.fishandstay.com

Cavan CAC league round up

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Cavan CAC’s deferred final league match was fished last Sunday on Garadice. It’s fair to say the weights were the worst they’ve had all during their league, with bites really hard to come by. While their top angler was known for a couple of matches, its was nip and tuck for 2nd to 4th place and those top 4 anglers ended up being:

1 Michael Mahoney 6pts

2 Darren Bayliss 9pts

3 Dessie Kellegher 10 pts

4 Paul Lee 11pts

Really well done to Michael Mahoney for a perfect score and hard luck to Steve Clinch for missing out on 4th due to weight. To cap it off, Michael won the match yesterday, with Dessie Kellegher, Darren Bayliss and Colin Moffit getting section prizes.

Olives up and ferox trout on Corrib

By
Myles Kelly
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Lough Corrib on Saturday 9 April. On Sunday the weather became so bad all fishing competitions were cancelled.

Lough Corrib’s trout anglers enjoyed reasonably good fishing last week, but the much of it was localised so some never got in on the action at all. The Olives are well up now and Saturday saw good fishing. Unfortunately Sunday became quite wild and the various club competitions planned for the day had to be postponed. Not a great finish to the weekend but there was talk about when the first Mayfly would be seen hatching on the lake…

Winds improved this week and temperatures are up again so fishing is back on track. Tomi Kurman (Tomi Guided Fishing) had a few guests out over the last couple of days and he has been putting them on some great ferox trout as usual. This week his visiting anglers are from Martinique in the Caribbean. They’ve experience genuine Irish weather and also had some great trout to over 75cm.

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Antoine strikes again with this beautiful 75cm Ferox trout

Impact Fly Fishing have a red letter day chasing springers with streamers

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Keith McDonnell of Impact Fly Fishing was out testing some gear last week by putting a new prototype streamer rod through its paces. Keith ties some fabulous streamer flies, which he normally uses for chasing big trout but, for a change, his quarry on the day was the elusive spring salmon. As it happens, both the streamer flies and the new rod were more than up to the job, with 4 springers hooked on the day including landing a PB of 18lb for Keith. He’s written an entertaining blog with beautiful imagery which is well worth a read for streamer and salmon anglers alike.

A new PB salmon for Keith caught on his trigger treat fly

Rivers produce numbers but Lakes throw up the bigger pike for Newbridge Pike Anglers

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Newbridge District Pike Anglers held their latest competition on a system of 4 small lakes and interconnecting rivers last weekend. Hitting the banks for an early start at 8.30 AM, some aimed at bagging up the numbers on the rivers, while others opted to go for bigger fish on the lakes.

One for the river anglers…

The river fishing was hard and fast, with plenty of action leading to some big bags. The lakes fished much slower, but true to expectations, they did throw up the bigger fish, and provided Brendan Jervis with his second win of the year with a fish of over 16lb.

…but the winning pike came from the lake

A total of 89 pike were caught including 3 doubles.

Results as follows:

1st Brendan Jervis 16.08 heaviest fish
2nd Eugene Mc Cabe 70.03 bag
3rd Dave Murphy 68.0 bag

Turn of the tide flips the switch for South Shore SAC

By
Shane O'Reilly
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28 anglers for South Shore SAC had an early start last weekend as they decamped to Arklow beach for their latest club competition. They were greeted by a stiff south-easterly wind blowing up the beach, which meant that anglers were chilled to the bone, but at least they were spared the rain that had been forecast. Known for its abundance of whiting (aka ‘piranhas’) at this time of year, anglers expected the fishing to be fast and furious. So there were many furrowed brows and puzzled looks as cast after cast came back fishless.

Cold weather didn’t dampen the spirits of South Shore SAC

After a couple of hours of ‘nothing happening’ the tide turned, and suddenly the whiting flooded back into swims and for the next while it was a real blitz, with treble shots of whiting rolling in on the waves before they suddenly disappeared again. For a full report see the South Shore SAC Facebook page.

‘Piranhas’, late to arrive, but plentiful when they did

Results as follows:

91 pike but no real big ones for Leinster Pike Anglers

By
Shane O'Reilly
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The Leinster Pike Angling Club fished their April competition at a venue in Cavan last week and although the pike were biting, no real monsters were landed. A total of 21 anglers took to the banks, with 91 fish being caught and released, but most were on the small side, with the biggest being just over 7lb.

Results as follows:

Top 3

1st Mark Mckenna 14 fish – 49lb 1oz
2nd Mark Kiernan 17 fish – 43lb 11oz
3rd Jodie Kiernan 14 fish – 28lb 13oz
Heaviest Fish: Mark Mckenna 7lb 3oz

Ireland’s Feeder King – Qualifier 2 – Lough gowna – Results

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Golden tickets are hard to come by

Qualifier two took place on a cool Lough Gowna on Sunday, April 10th.

Fishing was good in some sections, with Tony Hopkins putting in an awesome performance to win the whole match with 21.750kg on Zone A, Tessa’s. Sean Bereton won Zone B (Kevin’s) with 9.550kg and high flying Darren Fairhurst won Zone C (Corfree) with 6.500kg.

Ireand’s Feeder King has been a huge success so far, with all the best feeder anglers in Ireland and further a field competing against each other for a place in the mega money grand final.

GOLDEN TICKETS WINNERS – Qualifier 2:

  • ZONE A TONY HOPKINS
  • ZONE B SEAN BERETON
  • ZONE C DARREN FAIRHURST
Golden tickets are hard to come by

MINI SECTIONS

  • A Tony Hopkins/Piotir Horbinski
  • B Sean Bereton/Irmantas Scriupa
  • C Darren Fairhurst/Richard Pratt.

The third qualifier will be held on the River Suck on April 24th.

The remaining qualifiers are:

Q3 River Suck April 24th
Q4 River Erne May 7th
Q5 Lough Muckno June 19th
Q6 Garadice/Gulladoo/Rockfield 3rd July
Q7 Lough Muckno 20th August, ( Saturday)
Q8 Lough Sillan/Namachree 3rd September(Saturday)
Final 24th/ 25th of September, Lough Sillan.
Practice final 23rd of September

Irish Spring Angling Fair 30th April – 1st May 2022

By
Myles Kelly
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spring fair

It won’t be long now until the Irish Spring Angling Fair on the 30th of April and 1st of May.

The organisers promise that it’s going to be a fantastic weekend for all anglers, and they are looking forward to welcoming you all to the show.

With  demos, instruction, workshops and more on fly casting, coarse tactics, fly tying sea angling as well as plenty of shopping to be done there really will be something for all anglers – Sea, Salmon, Trout, Pike and Coarse.

20 well known names from the angling world will be there for the weekend including Scott McKenzie, Henry Gilbey, Steffan Jones, Cathal Hughes, Cormac Walsh, Peter Driver, Glenda Powell, Daire Whelan and more.

And that’s not to mention the long list of fly tiers! The Irish Spring Angling Fair will have a dedicated fly tiers area at the show, featuring 17 pro tiers from Ireland and abroad.  And it’s not just for the past masters, there will be a designated have a go area where beginners and kids can try their hand at tying a fly.

There will be plenty angling activities for kids to see and do at the Fair too.  The organisers are very keen to promote angling to young people.  There will be a designated area on the bait lake for free kids fishing tuition during the day, free fly tying lessons and more.

On top of all this will be casting competition, raffles and all the usual fun and frolics of a good spring fair.

Visit irishspringanglingfair.com to see the full list of exhibitors, demonstrations, fly tiers, daily time table and to book your online tickets today.

Location

The Irish Spring Fair will be held at Ardaire Springs Angling Centre near Mooncoin, co. Kilkenny. See the location map for details on how to get there.

Parking

Arrangements have been made to ensure there will be ample car parking for the weekend.  See the Onsite Parking page for more information.

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Surf & turf on the menu for Ritchie Ryan

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Angling guide Ritchie Ryan of Eire Bass had a couple of outings this week, one in freshwater, the other in salt:

I fished during the week at the Southern County Fishing Resort near my home town of Borris, Co Carlow. It’s a hidden gem, catch and release on the day. 3 beautiful rainbows landed on the fly, one whopper lost. Owner Chris Kavanagh was most helpful and shows great consideration for the fish which is nice to see. The lakes are fed by a freshwater river ensuring as natural a feeding environment as possible. As Arnold Schwarzenegger said, “I’ll be back!”

A well-conditioned Southern County ‘bow’

Back in Cobh, I had a great session aboard Sea Hawk with father and son Dr. Leslie Moats and Zachary. The latter is on an Erasmus Studying Abroad Programme at UCC. A great day was had by all, the son out-fishing the father on this occasion. Fly caught Pollack were reasonably plentiful on the day which bodes well for the season. 

Zachary Moates with one of his fly-caught pollack which were plentiful on the day

Make a booking

If you want to book Richie then go to  www.corkbass.com

Eire Bass – Richie Ryan

Saltwater fly fishing Guide.

Web: www.corkbass.com E-mail: info@corkbass.com
Tel: +353 (0)86 1940744

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