RIVER ILEN
10 fish for the week, best 10lbs by a club angler on a Flying C.
COOMHOLA RIVER
3 fish for the week, best 10lbs on shrimp by Michael McGuire, club angler.
RIVER BANDON
There were 3 salmon reported for the week, 2 of these were fresh.
RIVER LEE
3 salmon reported for the week on club waters by club members, 2 weighing 5lbs each and the 3rd was 6lbs. Water levels were fluctuating.
INNISCARRA FISHERY
3 salmon for the week. A Limerick angler had 2, weighing 4lbs and 11.5lbs and local angler Sean Cremin had a salmon of 4.5lbs. All fish were caught on shrimp.
There was plenty of rain across northern and eastern coastal counties but elsewhere it was relatively dry and sunny, if still a bit cooler than expected for June. This has made for pretty inconsistent fishing, with results varying in many places from day to day. That said there were a few parts of the country that saw consistently good results, particularly for coarse, trout, charter boat and shore anglers…
Bright sunshine, heavy showers, cold northerly wind and fluctuating water levels made conditions very tough on the Moy for the past week. However, 285 salmon were reported caught with a big percentage of them grilse. The Erriff and Delphi Fishery enjoyed good fishing as the rain there brought much needed water. Anglers at Costello and Fermoyle reported good numbers of salmon and sea trout in the system and fish were taking well as the waters levels dropped there. Things were looking up on the Owenmore Fishery at the weekend but the wind changed and so did the luck of the fishermen. On the Munster Blackwater there was some great fishing last week but as the levels on the river continued to drop the fishing petered out. Once again there were a few salmon from the Ilen and there was a long wait for anglers on the Nore to hit it right again this season, but that time arrived at the weekend and some great fish to 18lb were caught and released.
The Nore is also seeing some great trout fishing recently. Thankfully the trout fishing is not as fickle as the salmon fishing, though they probably lie side by side in many pools. The word from Lough Corrib is that fishing is much improved with good catches on Mayfly and Caenis.
All our coarse reports are from the top half of the country this week. There has been some great bream fishing reported, both in festivals and from pleasure anglers. What’s great to see is the spread of locations with good bream reports coming in from Cavan, Longford and Monaghan. Some super tench catches were also reported.
Just one pike report in this week, from Lough Derg. German anglers on a guided fishing holiday had some very enjoyable fishing where they caught some hard fighting fish to 90cm.
On the subject of hard fighting fish a huge porbeagle shark of around 7 feet and estimated to weigh 300lb was caught by an angler on the Silver Dawn out of Courtmacsherry on Tuesday. This huge fish is Catch of the Week. A few good sharks were caught on the same day and fishing in the area is going well at the moment. Charter boat anglers are also getting good fishing at Wicklow where 70 specimens were recorded in the last few weeks. Heading to the top of the country and up in Downings it was a similar story with good reports from wreck and reef. Specimen spurdog and tub gurnard have been landed here too. Out on the west coast there was good fishing on Killala Bay
Saturday will be warm and dry, temperatures will range 15 to 20C, in moderate southeast breezes. It will be mildest inland away from south and east facing coasts. There will be a locally damp start to Sunday. Heavy thundery rain in the south will slowly push northwards through the day. Spot flooding is likely. Feeling humid, with highs of 15 to 20C, all in a moderate easterly breezes. It will become very warm and increasingly humid well into next week with temperatures widely rising into the 20s. Some thundery rain is possible too though with low pressure lining up close to the Bay of Biscay. Hmmmmm… I’m going fishing, but it looks like I’ll have the rain gear and the the sun block on.
Safe fishing to all and tight lines, especially here in Ireland.
Myles Kelly
Catch, Photo, Release
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Michael McVeigh reports from Downings, County Donegal:
Good fishing this week for our Dutch guests, spurdog were turning up in good numbers with specimens up to 112cm recorded. We’ve also had reasonable numbers of tope and our second good common skate of the season – a fine fish of 135lbs or so.
One of the highlights from last Sunday was a specimen tub gurnard of just over 2kgs, super fish.
Michael McVeigh
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Stefan Martin reports from Donegal…
Summer rambling on the shore and inhaling the great outdoors is what keeps us going throughout the year. Another great session with a nice mixture of ground in front having peaks and kelp on one side and sand on the other which gives a variety of target species.
Some lovely spotted rays and thornbacks among the flatties on the sand for Johnny and Gavin and conger eels patrolling the dark rocks. These fish took baits but a few casts with the lure rod firing out soft plastics to slowly retrieve tempted a lovely pollack over 7lb on the scales for Gavin. Great fishing on a very enjoyable day out.
Stefan Martin
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With the season in full swing Kit Dunne reports on a massive 70 Irish Specimen Fish recorded for May and June. The bulk of the fish are smooth hounds with many in double figures and the best so far reaching 17.5lb in weight.
The tope fishing has also begun, with a lot of southerly winds the best grounds were inaccessible for a short time; however, in recent trips plenty of tope have been landed. German visitor Mike Wheeler recorded the best tope to date with his 41lb, 162cm fish. Bullhuss, thornback ray & homelyn ray are also on the catch list.
Inshore, the species are also coming in with plenty of codling, dab, pollock, coalie, gurnard, a few conger and some small ling. The elusive black bream hasn’t shown up yet, however, conditions haven’t really suited so far.
We’re looking forward to our shark fishing from August to October and after an average of 7 sharks per trip last year we hope to do more this season. With only few dates left available in August and September you need to move fast if you want a date. Don’t forget our Free Customer Competitions are running again this year, €1000 plus in prizes.
Angling Charters are offered on a full-day, half-day and evening trip basis and can be tailored to suit your needs. Two boats available – Lisin and Castle Maiden. All levels of anglers are catered for. Anglers will benefit from your skipper’s angling experience and local knowledge with advice and guidance on-hand at all times.
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Damien Culliney of Anglers Paradise Ireland reports from Lough Derg…
I was fishing with Tobi and Ingo from Germany and they had a great day out with Anglers Paradise. We had great days fishing and finished with nine pike to the boat.
The best was was a lovely fish of 90 cm and we also landed a beautiful trout.
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Richard Caplice reports that the roach are on the way as bream show in some numbers on Lough Muckno in the Irish Feeder-masters qualifier…
16 June: Our Irish Feeder-masters qualifier event on Lough Muckno today saw the capped limit of 50 anglers surpassed but for this qualifier all entries are accepted.
Five sections,with the winner of each going through to the final were in use and with a quality field competition was fierce and extremely tight on each of the sections.
Mariusz Killian prevailed following a tough struggle on next peg with home favorite Darren Fairhurst. With Darren bringing Almost 15 kg to the net he had to feel confident only to be outdone by the rampant Mariusz who finished with a fine Weight of just under 19 kgs of prime Bream from Black Island 156.
All sections fished well despite the influx of much bigger Roach happening slowly due to fresh and high water slowing their return, which is expected to peak this week.
Bream and large hybrids of a beautiful condition showed on all sections, so all augers well for our feeder festival starting tomorrow.
Please now all anglers note that the next feeder masters qualifier is capped at 50 anglers and is set for 20th July 2019.
Please book on early to avoid dissapointment.
1st Mariusz Killian
2nd Darren Fairhurst
3rd Leigh Maitland
4 Robertas Zilatis
5th Johnny Keith
Mariusz Killian
Michael Welsh
Stephen White
Vaidas Jagela
Johnny Keith
Feeder festival starts tomorrow for 5 days so we are hoping for good weather and great fishing.
Report Courtesy of Dick Caplice at https://www.facebook.com/Lough-Muckno-393107817429399/
Donal Kennedy reports
A party of anglers from Co Sligo set out from Killala Harbour for a day’s fishing. Weather was fine, an overcast sky paired with light southerly winds. On their first drift for mackerel none were caught so the skipper Donal Kennedy decided to move out to deeper waters and the anglers were not disappointed. On a drift over rocky ground, mackerel, pollack, coalfish and ling were caught. After a number of drifts where some fine pollack were caught it was time to return to Harbour .
The day passed very quick. All returned safely well pleased with their days fishing.
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William Thornton reports
Moy System WE Sunday 16th June 2019.
Bright sunshine, heavy showers, cold northerly wind and fluctuating water levels made conditions very tough for the past week. However, 285 salmon were reported caught with a big percentage of them grilse. This puts the total catch to date on par with 2018.
On the Moy Fishery, Evan Farrell, Dublin, had a 6.75 lbs. fish on spinner on the Ridge Pool. Charlton Peters, UK, and Peter Wadding, Wexford, were also successful on the Ridge Pool with fish of 5.5 lbs. and 7.5 lbs respectively both on fly. On the Weir Pool, John McKinley, Athlone, had a 3.75 lbs. grilse on fly.
As we move upstream, Laurence Flood, UK, had a nice 10.5 lbs. salmon, while four time world super bike champion Carl Fogarty had a 6 lbs. salmon on the Mount Falcon Fishery. Other successful anglers included John Tobin, UK, 4 lbs. on worm – Coolcronan Fishery, Jim Geraghty, Longford, 6 lbs. on spinner – Armstrong’s Fishery, Eric Fabe, France, 11 lbs. on prawn – Gannon’s Fishery, Eddie Manthrope, NI, 9 lbs. on worm – Foxford Fishery, Wilford Topping, NI, 14.5 lbs. – Rinanny Foxford Salmon Anglers water, Stefan Hibbe, Austria, 12 lbs. bubble & fly, Kevin Edwards, UK, 6 lbs. on spinner & Alain Soisson, France, 3 fish 4 to 13.5 lbs. on bubble & fly – all on the Cloongee Fishery. Successful anglers on the East Mayo water included Gerard Marais, France, 7 lbs. on worm, Mike Childs, UK, 3 & 8 &10 lbs. all on fly, Lothar Deeg, Germany, 8.5 & 10 lbs. on fly and Kurt Neuenschwander, Switzerland, 5 lbs also on fly. Kent Anderson from Sweden guided by Paddy McDonnell also did well on the upper Moy catching and releasing a number of nice fish.
While there is a good show of fish throughout the system the very unsettled weather continues to make conditions tough.
For more about the River Moy and its fisheries, including prices and maps see – https://www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/northwest/river_moy_system.htm
