Before the weather really broke, Luke Aston had a trip inside the Shannon Estuary, where his guests had some nice fishing for tope, conger and bull huss. Luke says utit was nice to see a few female tope at this time of year, as it’s normally the smaller males earlier in the season.
Tope aboard the Clare DragoonBull huss
With the deterioration in the weather, the Clare Dragoon is tied up in Kilrush Marina for a few days, but Luke has plans for October, with tuna and other species to be caught!
The Clare Dragoon
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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.netWeb:www.fishandstay.com
The weather has been inclement this week, with most days unsuitable for going to sea. With the boat tied up, skipper John Fleming has been looking back at the last few weeks action, and going through the photos. While shark fishing was slow in September, possibly due to the lingering algal bloom offshore, the dpecies fishing, particularly for whitefish, was “on fire”. Check out some of the photos from the last month.
A fine blue sharkGurnard
Pouting
Pollack
John will be keeping an eye on the weather, with trips available over the next few weeks – check out the contact details below and give him a call to check availability.
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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.
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Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge is back once more with a pike report from Co. Longford…
Husband and wife Cedric and Frauke, Pike fly anglers from Belgium, along with Cedric’s uncle Michel were here once again for their annual fishing trip to Melview Fishing Lodge. Unable to travel last year they were looking forward to getting out on the water. The fly only couple have started their holiday well with a good number of Pike caught during the first few days. Michel is a lure angler and has also had a few good Pike to the boat.
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Cedric has his first of the holiday
Another fly caught pike for Frauke
Cedric is all smiles
Frauke with a nice Pike taken on the Fly
The weather has started to change a little but the word is that there are some more nice Pike still being caught so we will catch with them and hopefully report on how their fishing holiday finished up for them.
Kevin has over 30 years experience of fishing in Ireland and is happy to offer a guided tour on your arrival, and to advise where the on-form waters in the area are. We can arrange your bait order so it’s here when you arrive. Melview offers free use of 17ft lake boats with engines to our guests (pay fuel only) and Kevin is happy to assist with any pre-baiting requests. Maps and other information regarding fishing are also available.
Rinnashark SAC will be holding the Martin Halley memorial open shore fishing competition this coming Sunday, October 3rd, with check in at the Saratoga Bar in Woodstown from 10.30am until 12 noon. Fishing will be from 1pm until 5pm.
For more information or for anglers interested in taking part, contact can be made through the Rinnashark SAC facebook page or alternatively by using the contact details provided on the event poster below.
Kit Dunne has been out after tope on the east coast with some decent results. Kit had to find sheltered marks close inshore to keep out of the strong winds and when he did the fish followed.
No monsters, but anglers Henk Theulings and Niall Burke had some nice fish in the mid thirties of pounds and up to 153cm long. There would have been more to report if they didn’t have to rely on some poor quality frozen bait – the likely reason for a number of dropped runs during the day.
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There were some incredible pole weights on Lough Sillan for the Cootehill Festival last week!
The scaled down version of the Cootehill Championships was run by CM Lakelands Feeder Club and anglers fished the Caravan Park and Deeps as well as fishing Monaghan venues Mullinary and White Lough at Bairds Shore. All anglers enjoyed some great pole and whip fishing with significant catches of roach and hybrids.
Congratulations to the winner Tony Hopkins who broke the 30kg barrier on Wednesday and finished the festival with 97.7kg.
Killinarden Angling Initiative held their annual Mental Health and Suicide Awareness event on Oaklands Lake in New Ross last weekend. As ever, there was a super turnout for the event and the proceeds went to a very worthy cause. Patrick Buddy Ryan of the KAI reports:
Again, we cannot thank everyone enough for their very generous support and encouragement, it’s amazing to see the excitement and enjoyment at the event every year. I will list the sponsors at the bottom and will start with the results of the match.
Under 18s:
1st Henry Power
2nd Josh Hanna
3rd Luke Mulcathy
Individuals:
1st Joe Radford
2nd Cristof
3rd Martin Kent
Teams:
1st Oaklands
2nd East Belfast
3rd Stephen Hynes team – The Dubs.
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A massive thank you to everyone who took part in yesterday’s even and made the effort to not only make it a memorable day but to make it a hugely successful day.
We had a great week with even better friends from Holland and Belgium. Great to have the Continental anglers back to Courtmacsherry gives us a sense of normality returning. They started the trip with some fine ling over the wrecks.
33lbs an Irish Specimen for Peter Vandershaeghe,
After that they had some lovely skate, productive ground fishing and a bit more time over the wrecks. After they finished up and went home, we had a group of Irish anglers out on a great trip for sharks.
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Stuck in a skate
Stake on the deck
Every bit of leverage helps with skate!
A kiss for a cod
Ling
Fat blue shark
Another Blue
Another blue shark
Playing a big one
The self drives are doing well on the bass with an angler landing 8 fish while trolling in the estuary last week.
Courtmacsherry Sea Angling Centre is one of Irelands Premier Angling Centres based in the picturesque village of Courtmacsherry located only 30miles from Cork International Airport on the West Cork coast between the Old head of Kinsale and the Seven Heads peninsula.
Our purpose built Sea angling and selfdrive boats offer the sea angler the ultimate in safety and comfort.
Sea Angling in Courtmacsherry produces good results both for the offshore charter angler, the selfdrive angler for inshore fishing or the wreck enthusiast. Address: Woodpoint Guest House, Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork. Telephone: +353 (0)23 8846427 or +353 (0)86 8250905 Email:csal@iol.ieWeb:www.courtmacsherryangling.ie
David Edwards takes a break from trolling for tuna to target blue sharks…
The Bluefin Tuna are staying away from West Cork at the moment so we had a day of shark tagging with all sharks released after measuring and using the new IFI floy tags.
We don’t allow stainless steel or barbed hooks when fishing for shark on Silver Dawn and the professional landing equipment we use also limits any risk of damage when bringing them on board for tagging and other research such as blood and tissue sampling with Marine Biologists.
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Blue shark
Blue shark
We caught and released 11 Blue sharks on Saturday ranging from 50-130lb.
It’s great to see their numbers increasing again and the data we are gaining should help provide further protection for all shark species in Irish waters.
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41′ Rodman 1250. Twin 430 HP Engines Skipper: David Edwards Licence: P5 Licence Base: Courtmacsherry Operational Area:
Authorised blue fin tuna boat
Notes: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.
23/9/2021 The Currane drifters were in action and caught a few Trout this day. Wind light to fresh and bright and sunny all day.
24/9/2021 Straight to the Currane fly drifters, there was some great sport on the drift today in the Sea Trout and Brown Trout department. All the action was in Coffees Bay and Donnelly’s Bay, the biggest rod bender of the day was a fine 5 lbs Sea Trout. Wind West light and variable and overcast.
Lough Currane 25 September 2021
25/9/2021 The Currane Drifters were out in force today with eight boats out and Waterville Boats and at watervilleboats@gmail.com take the headlines with a few nice Trout caught on the flies in their hired-out boats and I’m sure the other Currane drifters had a few Trout to their rods. Wind S Veered SSW light, with reasonable cloud cover.
26/9/21 In the hired-out boat department of watervilleboats@gmail.com there were a few Sea Trout caught on the drift and by all accounts there were a few nice Sea Trout also caught today by other Currane drifters. Now we head up stream to the Commeragh River, there was one angler manipulating his skills but as of yet my mobile is all quiet and the same for the Inny C&R anglers, who also were manipulating their skills, I will let you draw your own conclusions. Wind S and veered NW light and variable with good cloud cover.
27/9/2021 The Currane drifters headed out this morning and came across some good Trout action in Coffees Bay and around the Rabbit Island. The Salmon department was all quiet in all departments. Wind light with good cloud cover, followed by heavy showers at times.
28/9/2021 We start in the back date department from the renowned UK Hampshire Hogs fly anglers, on their annual visit to the Waterville Fishery last week so here is their report take it away, it’s all yours Hampshire Hogs.
Hi Vincent, after nearly 2 years absence it was great to finally land back in Waterville and get fishing! The first couple of days on the lake were very tough, a few trout coming to the fly and troll and the occasional salmon seen but not in the taking mood. Whether they are still on the bottom waiting for cooler or more water or have already run upstream is anybody’s guess. We decided to mix up the fishing with mornings on the Butlers Pool, afternoons on the lake and a couple of visits to Copal lake thrown in. The salmon in the pool proved more obliging, with a 13 pounder for Nigel Henshaw, an 8 pounder for Trevor Dewberry and 5 grilse across 4 days for Peter Ruffle, plus 4 fish lost while being played.
A total of around 50 trout to 3 1/2 lbs, plus some fair-sized brownies, were landed between us over the six days from Currane and Copal. In all, another great trip to Waterville and now the long wait until next spring before we can try again.
Now to today’s facts, all that was reported was just a few Trout caught on the drift. In the Salmon department all quiet on the SW front. Wind West light and veered NW this evening, reasonable cloud cover followed by heavy hale showers at times.
29/9/2021 We start with the Currane drifter’s and for all their efforts they caught a few Trout, on that note we will head upstream, there was one angler manipulating his worms on the Commeragh but as of yet one has not received any text so we will take it his efforts weren’t rewarded. Now we cut across the Valley to the C&R River Inny and it was great to hear there were two Salmon caught on the fly and one on the spin. Wind NW veered and SW in the afternoon light to fresh.
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
