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Good pike fishing reported on the lakes in the north-east

By
David Byrne
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Hope Castle overlooks Lough Muckno in Castleblayney in Co Monaghan

There were about 8 pike anglers and a similar number of coarse anglers enjoying a day’s fishing on Lough Muckno yesterday. Pike anglers were happy to share stories about some of their fishing trips during the previous few weeks. John Doyle from Navan said he had started his 2022 pike fishing season on January 1 on Lough Muckno. That day he was rewarded with a very nice fish just over 9 kg. which was caught on a popped-up dead bait.

Back to the Muckno

Then, just over a week ago John was back on the Muckno and had a magical day catching 5 pike. The largest weighed 9.5 kg. In addition, he had another double figured fish of 7.7 kg and three smaller pike weighing from 3.6 kg to 2.7 kg. All fish were taken on popped-up dead baits and were carefully returned to the water.

Peadar fishing dead baits at distance
Peadar from Dublin enjoying a day out on Muckno this week.
Lough Ramor and the Carrickmacross Lakes

Peadar from Dublin was also fishing on the Muckno today. He didn’t catch any fish in the morning, but he shared the story of his last fishing trip over the weekend. Peadar and his friend fished on the lakes around Carrickmacross over the weekend and caught some nice pike. Two of the fish weighed in at 5.4kg and 6.8kg. respectively.

Feeding fish

Reports indicate that pike are very active in some areas at the moment. They are reportedly feeding avidly on the fodder fish. Pike anglers have also been catching pike recently on lures, not normal for the time of year. On the Muckno last Sunday, the anglers were pestered all day by pike chasing their catches as they brought them to the net. So, it might be worth a cast at the weekend!

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2nd salmon of the season on the Drowes

By
Markus Muller
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Paul Cardy with the 2nd Drowes salmon of 2022

After the first salmon of the new year was caught on January 13th, Paul Cardy landed the 2nd fish of the season on the River Drowes. Paul’s 7 lbs. fish took a banana fly on January 21st.

The successful pattern – a “Banana Fly”

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River Drowes

The Drowes Fishery is one of Ireland’s premier spring salmon and grilse fisheries. The river is some 5 miles in length, with over 70 named pools, flowing from Lough Melvin at Lareen Bay and entering the sea at Tullaghan, just outside Bundoran. The Drowes has a wide variety of water suitable for all fishing methods, including several miles of good fly water and deeper slower moving pools suitable for spinning and bait fishing.

For information and bookings on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin see http://www.drowessalmonfishery.com
Tel: 071 9841055 (8am to 12 noon).
Mob: +353 (0) 87 8050806

 

Great shore action reported from Galway Bay

By
Markus Muller
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Members of Galway Bay Sea Angling Club report on some nice shore action during the week…

The flats are fattening up before heading off to spawn, the settled weather is making ray available inshore and the coalies are about after dark – get out and wet a line!

Waiting for a bite in the dark
Fat flattie

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Galway Bay Sea Angling Club is a progressive club based in Galway, but fishing competitions along the west coast. New members are always welcome, and every level of experience is catered for, with social outings right up to competitions held throughout the year. If you’re looking to get into sea angling in the west, check them out here 

 

 

Excellent flattie fishing on Donegal beaches

By
Markus Muller
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Members of Killybegs Mariners SAC enjoyed lovely flattie action on the local beaches during the week.
Please see their reports below…
A very enjoyable evening out with that amazing winter light as the low sun fires up the sky at sundown and gives a flurry of colour above and to have an empty beach all to yourself sitting back catching some nice fish is a bonus.
Lovely winter colours
Double turbot
Making the most of the settled mild weather there were plenty of small turbot in the low 20s and a few better size fish over the 30s giving those big bites as they hunt the shallows on the move in ambush mode. Flounders also in the mix before the 3 at a time coleys as the cover of darkness hit with quite a few well over the 20cm minimum. All released back to the cove.
Fine turbot in the dark
A great fishing of flounders and turbot on the beach for Mariners secretary Noel Kennedy out enjoying the good weather with the best of the fish hitting 36cm.
Noel with one of many flounder
Decent flounder
Also a rather sad yet interesting find is the large number of little Auks washing up on Donegal beaches. These are offshore birds that live well out in the Atlantic and can “fly” underwater as well as above. Luckily Cormac rescued one that was struggling and got it back to sea.
Little Auk rescued by Cormac

All images courtesy of Killybegs Mariners SAC.

Mariners sea angling club Killybegs Co Donegal. The club runs a shore league and boat competitions and angling trips around Ireland doing the sport we love. Get in touch at www.facebook.com/mariner.sac

Inshore Angler back on the beaches chasing winter flounder

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Chris O’Sullivan aka Inshore Angler was out on a south coast beach chasing some winter flounder in some cracking weather recently. Trying out a new rod, he managed a few nice ones to get him off the mark for the year and also landed a small schoolie bass as a bonus. Let’s hope it’s the first of many more fishing vids for 2022.

Unplanned solo trip yields nice ling and pollack for West Coast Charters

By
Shane O'Reilly
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West Cork Charters skipper Dave Edwards took a snap decision to head out on the water  on his own last week and the calm seas spurred him to head a bit further offshore than usual. He was rewarded with some fine ing to 20lb and pollack to 8lb which are fine fish for winter fishing.

Good ling for Dave Edwards from West Cork Charters

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: DavidEdwardsCymru@hotmail.com

Web: www.irelandseaangling.com

Courtmacsherry Angling back on the water for first trip in 2022

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Nice pollack off the wrecks for anglers with Courtmacsherry Angling

Mark Gannon from Courtmacsherry Angling was out on the water for the first trip of 2022 in the last week and reported some nice fishing with decent pollack showing. He’s planning a few more wreck trips in the coming weeks so anyone looking for a day on the water should get in touch.

Nice pollack off the wrecks for anglers with Courtmacsherry Angling

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Lady Louise

Aquastar 38′. 370 HP Caterpillar
Skipper: Mark Gannon
Licence: 818
Base: Courtmacsherry Operational Area: 30 miles out from Courtmacsherry

Authorised blue fin tuna boat

Notes: Mark has two Aquastar 38’s, Lady Patricia and
Lady Louise. Specialising in wreck fishing, Mark’s boats have consistently provided specimen fish over the years. Shark, reef and general inshore angling also on offer.

Address: Woodpoint Guest House, Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.
Telephone: +353 (0)23 8846427 or +353 (0)86 8250905
Email: csal@iol.ie Web: www.courtmacsherryangling.ie

Tough going for Munster Coarse Anglers at Portumna

By
Shane O'Reilly
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4 nice roach for 3lb 1oz won 3rd place

8 anglers braved some tough conditions as Munster Coarse Anglers held a match at Portumna at the weekend. Fish were very scarce with long periods of inactivity and it took over two hours for the first fish to register. Things picked up a bit after that and at least some of the roach were of a decent stamp when they did bite.

Results:

1st Steve 4lb 8oz
2nd Ray 3lb 10oz
3rd Garry 3lb 1oz
4 nice roach for 3lb 1oz won 3rd place

CM Lakelands Club out on Muckno & Garadice

By
Shane O'Reilly
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CM Lakelands Feeder Club have been busy over the past few weekends visiting both Muckno and Garadice as part of their feeder league. The weekend before last, 25 anglers fished round 4 of the C/M Lakelands Lough Muckno feeder league. They reported good catches for the time of year with plenty of 5+ kilo bags:

OVERALL
1st Alan Larkin 6.660kg
2nd Neil Mazurek 5.980kg
3rd Robertas Zilaitis 5.940kg
4th Brenton Sweeney 5.460kg
SECTIONS
Darren Fairhurst 5.060, black island
Damien Foltyn 4.620kg south lodge shallow
Rimantas Kondrackas 4.220kg south lodge deep
Seamus Winters 4.100kg
Round 5 in 2 weeks time

Last weekend it was back to Garadice where they fished on two separate sections where bags weren’t quite as big but catches of 40-50 fish were the order of the day.

HOUGHTON’S SHORE
1ST Tony Hopkins 5.690kg
2ND Rimantas Kondrackas 4.840kg
3RD Richard Pratt 3.400kg
4TH Eimantas Kasalynas 2.300kg
GRASSY BANK, CHURCH SIDE
1ST Nigel Holdsworth 4.540kg
2ND Rafal ostrowski 3.520kg
3RD Robertas Zilaitis 3.080kg
4TH Barney Humphries 3.040kg

Over 100 pike in a week for German anglers staying at Carafin Lodge

By
Shane O'Reilly
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Josef Ludwig and his friends from Germany enjoyed a great week at Carafin Lodge recently. Carafin Lodge is on the Lough Oughter system which gives plenty of ground to explore and the guys made the most of their chances, catching over 100 pike during their stay despite having to deal with some tough conditions. Most of the pike were caught on deadbait and were between 85cm and 105cm and all were returned safely to the water.
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