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Salmon anglers back on the Moy

By
Markus Muller
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Kevin O’Boyle reports from the River Moy…

The River Moy opened for salmon and sea trout angling on Tuesday February 1st, with approximately 10 members of Ballina Salmon Anglers taking to the banks of the River Moy.

Anglers were happy with the ideal water levels for the first half of the week.

Water levels recorded at Ballylahan Bridge on Tuesday morning were 0.64 m rising to 1.498 m by Sunday evening whilst water temperatures were normal for the time of year, ranging from 9.3˚ Celsius to 9.8˚Celsius.

No salmon were reported caught for the week from any of the fisheries on the Moy.

Delphi On Fire

By
Kevin Crowley
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Last week we reported on the first fish being caught at Delphi. Well it appears the fishery has had a run of spring fish, as 5 more fish have been landed since then.

Simon Cassidy makes a cast on the Bundorragha River, Delphi Fishery.

After Jurgen Mantel’s opening fish last week, Meath angler Simon Cassidy was next to score. Simon landed a lovely 7lbs 14oz ranched fishing from Cooleens on a Monkey Dog fly.

Simon Cassidy with his cracking 7lbs 14oz springer from Delphi.

Not content with one fish, Simon was back on the river the next day, this time landing a wild fish estimated at 7lbs, which gave him a great fight. All wild fish are released at Delphi, and Simon released this one quickly. He even got a nice video of the great fight and release.

The next day Luke Drea and Jack Rogers were both fishing the Meadow Pool. Luke landed a fine 8lbs 8oz salmon on a Monkey Dog, and just a few minutes later Jack had a 7lbs 14oz springer from the same lie on a Wilie Gunn. Great sport!

Jack Rogers with another nice spring fish from Delphi.

Despite lovely water, no fish were reported then until yesterday, the 9th, when Galway angler Denis Quill landed a fine 10lbs 15oz fish from the Meadow Pool on a Willie Gunn.

Any fish killed were ranched fish from the Delphi hatchery, the wild fish caught was released.

Go fishing…

At Delphi Lodge, with many years of experience with the timing of the best runs of fish, we have in place a price system that offers both great value fishing and lets our anglers know when they have the best chance to catch a fresh run spring salmon or a summer grilse or Delphi sea trout.

Delphi Fishery
Delphi Lodge, Leenane, Co. Galway.
Tel: +353 (0)95-42222 Fax +353-95-42296
Web: www.delphilodge.ie

Mullet on the fly

By
Markus Muller
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Never easy...Mullet on fly!

Saltwater flyfishing guide Richie Ryan kicks off the mullet flyfishing season with 3 fine fish which could only be tempted with a delicately presented bread fly. All fish were safely released to the water.

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

Sea trout flies and nymphs live tomorrow night with Piscari Fly

By
Myles Kelly
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Peter Driver of Piscari Fly is back with his live fly tying broadcast this weekend. This time the focus is on sea trout flies and nymphs

The live show will be on the Piscari Fly facebook page and is at 8.30pm on Saturday night.

We are back LIVE tomorrow night at 8.30pm for another great fly tying show right here on our facebook page.

This week we are tying some great Sea Trout flies and Nymphs. Don’t miss a great show.

See you all then

Our live show is on our facebook page and is at 8.30pm.

As ever you can catch up on past episodes at the PiscariFly YouTube channel where recent episodes have covered

Tie a fly…

Peter’s fly shop is at www.piscari-fly.com for all your fly tying and fly fishing needs.

East Cork competition for West Cork and District anglers

By
Myles Kelly
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east cork

Pete Davis of West Cork and District SAC put together this great report of their recent club match on Ballinwilling beach in East Cork:

Sunday evening, February 6th, saw the second outing of the year for West Cork and District SAC. Venue for proceedings was to be Ballinwilling beach in East Cork. East Cork in general and the Garryvoe and Youghal beaches in particular can on their day offer up shore angling on a par if not better than anywhere in Europe. Ballinwilling on its day can be a fantastic venue, especially in Autumn and Winter being most noted for Cod, Bass and Painted Ray catches amongst the usual suspects. In summer time it still throws up plenty of Dogfish and Flounder but it’s the dark evenings and churned up seas that bring out the best of it. Equally, it can be a venue that will drive you mad, pulling your hair out in frustration as in sub optimal conditions it’s a difficult venue to pull fish from to any particular pattern.

26 anglers fished on Sunday, 21 senior and 5 juniors. Arriving for check in, the weather was somewhat brisk to say the least with some squally horizontal rain along with a strong breeze sending a man scurrying to get into his waders, hiding under the boot lid! Curiously, it seemed that as soon as we had hit the beach and struggled to set up the beach shelters that the wind and rain virtually disappeared and it made for a pleasant enough evening on the weather front all things considered.

The strong winds that had blown all weekend had been blowing off the land and whilst it made for clean seas, easy to fish, it certainly didn’t help proceedings from a fish perspective. Ballinwilling in February was virtually flat calm with only a gentle roll coming in. Not ideal for here unfortunately but that’s been the story of the past few fixtures and there isn’t a thing a fella can do about that only get on with it. First casts were sent out at 5pm as daylight faded into dusk and the hunt began in earnest.

Several fish hit the cards as some of the resident flounder made an appearance on the first cast with Liam Davis on peg 10 managing a nice high 20s fish to get off to a flier. Things however in general were quiet. Ken Hogan on peg 12 managed a couple of flounder in quick succession mid comp as did I but they weren’t around in any huge numbers to keep the run going and there was no pattern as to where they were coming from either distance wise. Anglers were caught in something of a quandary, chase the scarce but high scoring dogfish or stay small and try and accumulate a number of smaller bits and pieces. In the end, there weren’t really enough fish around to strongly swing things in either direction. The end pegs fished reasonably well with 1st and second coming from alternate ends. The middle of the beach lived up to its (harsh but fair on this occasion!) nickname of “The Hungry Acre” and fish were hard to come by. Such is the way of match angling and we have all been there!

Come 9pm, lines were drawn and results were counted. Tom Collins on peg 26 took top spot on the night with Jamie Santry in second place from peg 1. Evan Collins with 2 of the 5 dogfish taken on the night and a good coalie won the Junior section and would have been second overall on the beach had he fished as a senior with Liam Davis in second place with a mixed bag of 5 comprising 2 flounder, 2 rockling and a whiting. Noah Tahran, another Junior Angler took the longest flatfish pool, a cool €130 with a fine painted ray of 78cm with Jamie Santry managing a strap conger of 49cm to take the longest roundfish pool. Well done to all!

Seniors:
  • 1st Tom Collins 6 fish
  • 2nd Jamie Santry 4 fish
  • 3rd Derek Kendrick 5 fish
Juniors:
  • 1st Evan Collins 3 fish
  • 2nd Liam Davis 5 fish
  • 3rd Noah Tahran 1 fish

Whilst the fishing hadn’t been electric with 47 fish shared between 26 anglers, its worth noting that this is not the best reflection on how good a venue this can be. On the night, 10 species were taken which is a better indicator as to the nature of this beach. We had Pollack, Plaice, Flounder, Rockling, Cod, Painted Ray, Dogfish, Pouting, Coalfish and Conger. It really is a beach that can throw up anything and well worth fishing.

Join the Club

WCADSAC are now taking a bit of a break with our next confirmed fixture coming up on May 7th at the Slob Bank in Youghal. We may end up slipping another one in during April if our fixture list gets a rejig. We are still open for members and despite having fished 2 comps already, we still have 7 matches remaining if you are interested in joining and having a crack at it. We are a friendly, progressive club with a healthy senior and junior contingent fishing matches in a great atmosphere. If you are interested in joining us, don’t hesitate to get in touch via our Facebook page. Until next time, tight lines to all, I’m off to try and hatch a plan as to how not to get beaten by 14 year olds….

Pete Davis
West Cork and District Sea Angling Club

All about WCest Cork and District SAC…

The club was formed on march 19th 2009, in the small picturesque harbour town of  Kinsale County Cork. We’re an inclusive club, this can be seen in our membership profile; from anglers who are new to match fishing all the way up to members of the Irish World Shore Team 2010, two of which are in the club! The club holds circa 10 competitions per year, members are encouraged to practice a catch and release policy in the interests of conservation. Anybody wishing to join our club is always welcome, just use the contact us page and we will give prospective members full details.
Web: http://westcorkanddistrict.webs.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Cork-and-District-SAC/201776589958897

Counting down the days to casting a fly on the Nore

By
Myles Kelly
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Dan O’Neill, Fishery Manager at Mount Juliet reports from the River Nore where the close season will open on March 17th…

At last the close season is nearly at an end. I for one will be glad to be spending more time with the fly rod and less time with the fly tying vice. This time of year is always exciting for anglers, new methods for some, new patterns for others. It’s quite possible I have tied enough flies to last me for the next 4 seasons as I usually end up doing.

Half of these, if not more, will be bartered away on the river bank in exchange for another anglers creation. Simple little things like this are what draws me to fly fishing more and more. Getting out of the hectic lifestyle, news reports and day to day “issues”.

Angling has become a more popular getaway in the last 18 months. People just need that getaway to let their mind wander and break the cycle of everyday life. I don’t ever find anything as rewarding as explaining this to someone, then taking them fishing to see for themselves that the trout have not driven me completely mad. For the most part they do find it exactly as I have outlined and the journey begins. I read somewhere a saying that will always stay with me “you will lose your mind, but find your soul”. Most anglers will agree with this as I believe we have all lost our mind at some point when the trout will do anything except sip down your dry fly offering leaving you questioning your tying skills or even worse your fishing buddies tying skills. Yet we all long for that night where every fish that we cover sips down that fly and the complements you pass to your fishing buddy about his incredible tying skills. I am looking forward to meeting fellow anglers on the river this season and bartering some of my creations with them (if you will have them). I wish you all a safe productive season ahead.

Membership

I have 6 trout membership spaces free for the coming season.

For information on day tickets or memberships please send inquiries to : Doneill@mountjuliet.ie

Dan O’Neill
Mount Juliet Estate.

Go fishing…

Mount Juliet House is set on a large estate, which offers private fishing on 2.5 miles of the middle to lower reaches of the River Nore. Mount Juliet Estate offers fishing of the highest quality, just a short stroll away from the Manor House. There is a fishing room on site in the Manor House for your convenience i.e. for storage and drying of fishing equipment. Mount Juliet Estate can also provide the necessary equipment on site if needed.

https://www.mountjuliet.ie/fishing-on-the-estate.html

Steady fishing for CM Lakelands Club on Garadice

By
Paul O'Reilly
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The C/M Lakelands Feeder club held a pair of open matches on a very windy Lough Garadice in County Leitrim over the weekend. Sheltering themselves on the more protected Church Shore, the club used pegs 2 to 21 and decided to split the twenty competing anglers to hold two different matches instead of just one.

Roach and hybrids made up the bulk of the weights, with winners of each match bagging over 4kgs each.

RESULTS 2 TO 11

  1. Rimantas Kondrakas 4.660kg peg 3.
  2. Larry Parkes 3.840kg peg 2.
  3. Irmantas Scriupa 2.560kg peg 4.

RESULTS 12 TO 21

  1. Brenton Sweeney 4.340kg peg 18.
  2. Eimantas Kasalynas 3.800kg peg 20.
  3. 3 Artur Bojczewski 3.060kg peg 15.
The club’s next match on Garadice will take place in two weeks.

Young Clare angler doing well in the Corofin area

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Young pike angler Ruben from Lisdoonvarna in Co. Clare has been fishing the Corofin area over the past few weeks and has been catching a few nice fish. One of the better ones came from Atedaun Lake and weighed in at 15lb. This one fell to a float fished deadbait, but Ruben also makes his own spoons which is pretty impressive for a 12-year-old.

Wild weather at Ventry, but possible record score for Tralee Bay anglers

By
Myles Kelly
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bull huss
Chris with a nice surprise. Watch the video to learn more.

Chris O’Sullivan reports for Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club and their latest competition fished at Ventry last weekend…

It was a big weekend of sport in the Kingdom with the Dubs in Tralee for the football and another raiding party headed west to Ventry for the Tralee bay competition. To say that the weather was interesting would be fair. 30mph winds combined with driving rain and occasional 60mph gusts meant there would be plenty of gear tested to the max.

There were dogs, flounder and coalies from the off with a slew of people on 3 fish after an hour. Paul Whelan fresh from his success at the winter beach was off to a flyer with treble after treble getting him to double figures while the rest were only warming up.

Things slowed down over high water where Richard Rutland on Peg 1 tipped away to 8 dogs and a fine coalie of 36 cm to knock Chris’s 35 off the big fish board. Fiona and David Griffin added 36cm coalies to move to the top too.

Final results

Troy Francis took fifth, Richard 4th. Chris managed 9 dogs, 2 coalies and a fine huss of 100cm to take 3rd and the round fish pool too. Ciaran Fogarty, back on familiar turf after a few years wandering, knocked off the rust to hit 16 dogs and take 2nd place. 1st place went to Paul Whelan with a magnificent haul of 37 dogs and a poor lost pout of 19cm (that the dogs probably tried to eat). Does anyone remember a score of over 1850pts? Could that be a club record?

David Griffin took the flat fish pool with a Plaice of 24cm. His first ever Plaice was a valuable one.

Well done junior anglers

Special mention goes to the juniors on the night who all caught fish on a horrific night. There were plenty of seniors who changed their mind when they saw the forecast, but not them boys. Khalid and Caiden tied with a dog each for 2nd and winner on the night was new member Chris Sanbak from Killarney with 4 fish for 178 pts.

Congratulations lads on fishing in extremely testing conditions and getting fish.

Also a big thanks to Cian and Andy for making the trip down and joining us.

Go fishing

Next competition is the 19th of March on Inch Strand fishing 6 to 10pm

Chris O’Sullivan

Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club
Web: www.traleebaysac.org
Facebook: facebook.com/TraleeBaySeaAnglingClub

Join Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club

Tralee Bay SAC  is a thriving community of enthusiastic anglers – young and old, experienced and newcomers – with new members joining all of the time. We have a busy schedule of shore and boat competitions and lots of social events planned throughout the year. Tralee Bay is a family friendly, welcoming club with a reputation for promoting angling and encouraging newcomers to the sport.

Joining could not be easier – simply get in touch with us via our Contact us page leave your address and we will send you out an application form. Please also let us have your email address – especially if you have any queries for us. We are especially eager to hear from junior anglers who want to take advantage of club membership. For more information on joining see here – Joining Tralee Bay Sea Angling Club.

49 Seasonal Fisheries Officers to be recruited

By
Sarah Bohan
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Four Fisheries Officers standing by a lake
Fisheries Officers with Inland Fisheries Ireland, pictured from left to right: José Peréz (Kerry District), Maureen Byrne (Drogheda District), Andrew Crosbie (Cavan District) and Christine Meehan (Lismore District). Photo: Peter Grogan, Emagine

Inland Fisheries Ireland to recruit 49 new Seasonal Fisheries Officers

Protection and Development posts opening up in Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Louth, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary and Wexford

Inland Fisheries Ireland is launching its recruitment drive this week to hire forty-nine Seasonal Fisheries Officers (go straight to all posts available here).

The six-month posts are divided across seven River Basin Districts, covering sixteen counties with recruitment getting underway immediately.

Seasonal Fisheries Officers will join teams over the summer months to help protect, conserve and develop fisheries resources working in and around Ireland’s lakes, rivers and coastlines.

 

Inland Fisheries Ireland is looking for candidates for both ‘protection’ and ‘development’ roles and they will play a crucial part in the agency’s plans for 2022, according to its Chief Executive Officer, Francis O’ Donnell. Launching the recruitment drive today, O’ Donnell said: “Our new Seasonal Fisheries Officers will be joining us on the frontlines, helping to protect, maintain and conserve this country’s natural resources. As an environmental agency, enforcement, protection and development are a big focus for us. For example, our teams undertake over 30,000 patrols around the clock every year, including patrols by foot, e-bike, vehicle and boat. At the same time, our development teams ensure the sustainability of fisheries habitat, enabling access for this generation and for future generations.”

Inland Fisheries Ireland’s HR Director, Róisín Bradley, says the roles would particularly appeal to those who enjoy working outdoors, adding: “Our Officers working in protection will spend a lot of their time patrolling lakes, rivers and coastlines. While Officers working in development will also spend a lot of their time around lakes and rivers, as they build, repair and maintain structures. Those that enjoy being close to nature and working outdoors, in all types of weather, are likely to find these roles very appealing and rewarding.”

Meanwhile, Inland Fisheries Ireland staff from five districts are lending their support to the recruitment drive and appearing in promotional videos to raise awareness about the new posts on offer. They are Maureen Byrne (Drogheda District), Andrew Crosbie (Cavan District), José Peréz (Kerry District), Aoife Walsh (Tralee District) and Christine Meehan (Lismore District).

The agency plans to launch a second recruitment drive later in the year for Seasonal Research Assistants.

Those interested in applying for a six-month Seasonal Fisheries Officer role can apply on-line at www.fisheriesireland.ie/careers, before the deadline of Monday, February 21st 2022.

Four Fisheries Officers standing by a lake
Fisheries Officers with Inland Fisheries Ireland, pictured from left to right: José Peréz (Kerry District), Maureen Byrne (Drogheda District), Andrew Crosbie (Cavan District) and Christine Meehan (Lismore District). Photo: Peter Grogan, Emagine

 

 

 

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