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Erriff producing fish as grilse start to appear

By
Kevin Crowley
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Osgur Grieve sent in the report for the period 07/06/19 – 12/06/19.

We have had 8 salmon during this time.

On Friday 7th visiting anglers Bob Thomas and Michael Child fished beats 9 and 8 for the day. Bob was first into action releasing a 3lbs wild grilse from the Gauge Pool using a Cascade. That afternoon Michael was fishing his way down the Holly Pool on Beat 8 when he hooked into a good wild salmon of 7lbs which he released, he was using an Ally’s shrimp variant.

Saturday 8th saw the return of the former fishery manager’s son Trevor Stafford who had a great day landing 3 salmon of 7.2lbs, 5lbs, and 2.75lbs two of which were wild and released. These fish came from the Bridge Pool, Middle Garden and Sea Pool on a Black and Green fly of his own tying and a Cascade. On Sunday 9th Jim Stafford fished with us and landed a fine ranched salmon of just over 12lbs, this fish was caught on a Cascade in the Middle Garden Pool. Later that evening regular angler Neil Spellacy fished and had a small ranched grilse of 2.5lbs from the Middle Garden Pool on a Black Shrimp. Monday 10th was quieter on the catch front despite the best efforts of good anglers. John Ryan fished with us on Wednesday the 12th and landed a 3.25lbs grilse from the Falls Pool on a small Collie Dog tube.

At the time of writing the river is at 0.72m, we could do with a dash of rain to bring it up although this recent lack of rain hasn’t deterred fresh fish from still entering the system. We will be expecting the grilse to appear in better numbers over the coming weeks and we still have some spring fish entering the system.

 

Go Fishing

The Erriff is a spate river draining beautiful mountain scenery and entering the sea at Killary Harbour, near Leenane. The river is split into 9 beats, and is flyfishing only for the most part. The river provides quality fishing for salmon and sea trout in spectacular surroundings. There is also lake fishing available on Tawnyard Lough, on one of the tributaries, providing sea trout fishing from July to September.

If you wish to book fishing please call the fishery office on (095) 42382 or email us at [email protected] 

Rain improves fishing on the Munster Blackwater

By
myleskelly
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Fort William reports that they have a busy couple of days on the river. On Monday this week Eddie O’ Connell had a lovely fish of 6lbs, safely returned. They had a great day on Tuesday when a 12lbs of silver took Chris Coady and was released after. There was another lovely double figure fish of approximately 14lbs for Chris Burt from New Zealand on fly. Both off the castle beat. And then there was first on fly for Sean Power estimated at 10lbs off the Ellis Beat plus a couple more hooked and lost.

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A quick photo before the release…

The Blackwater Salmon Fishery great day on the river yesterday. Scott Brown, who had bought an Atlantic Salmon Trust Lot donated by Glenda Powell for their fund raising auction, was over to make the most of his purchase. He certainly did that with a fine big salmon.  There were two other fish lost and a lot more activity than in previous days with fish showing themselves.

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Unhooking Scott’s salmon before it’s sent on it’s way…

Guy Marnier from France had two lovely salmon with Ballyduff Bridge Fishery on Monday 10th June. He caught both of his fish at Ballincurrig on the upper river on the fly. They weighed around 10lb and 7lb. There was also another nice fish lost at the net at the Bridge beat on the lower river. Fishing was quiet on Tuesday after the rain but there are a more fish moving compared to previous days.  Yesterday they had 3 fish landed and 2 lost. There was nice grilse of 4lbs on the fly for David Coughlan this morning at the bridge beat and 2 fish for our French visitor Guy Marnier at Ballygarrett also on the fly, 7lbs and 3lbs respectively.

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David’s fish goes back…

Right now the river is in great order and clearing nicely. There is more heavy rain forecast for Friday and this should freshen things up again and get more fish moving throughout the system.

Go Fishing…

Blackwater Salmon Fishery

Blackwater Salmon Fishery has 3 beats downstream of the weir and 2 upstream of the weir. Blackwater Salmon Fishery offers fishing on approximately 5 miles of the river Blackwater. The fishing is spread throughout the middle section of the river to offer good sport throughout the fishing season. Due to the location of the beats, fishing can still usually be offered in low or high water.
Contact Glenda Powell: Lismore, Co Waterford,
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +353 (0) 872351260 Telephone: +353 (0) 5853929
Web: www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com

Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery
Ballyduff Bridge fisheries control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater. The Ballyduff Bridge beat is almost a mile long offering a huge variety of water and is particularly suited to fly fishing. Upstream near the village of Ballyhooley (a few miles outside the town of Fermoy, Cork) we have two beats. The Ballincurrig Beat is one of the most beautiful locations along the river and has an excellent piece of fly water flowing into a deep pool. Just downstream on the opposite bank we have a short but productive beat, called Magners. This beat fishes also well in high water.

Contact  Conie Corcoran:
Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.

Tel: +353 (0)586 0146
Mobile: +353 (0)87 720 5690
Web: www.blackwatertroutandsalmon.ie

Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages

Fortwilliam Fishery offers two miles of double bank salmon and trout fishing over five beats on the river Blackwater.
Our salmon include – Springers, May Salmon, Grilse, Back End Salmon, and in Summer sea trout.
Our beats provide a wide variety of water, suitable for both beginners and the more experienced fishermen.
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Web: www.fortwilliamfishing.ie Email: [email protected]
Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299

The Munster Blackwater…

For more information about salmon fishing on the Munster Blackwater please see the following page with a list of all the fisheries

 

 

Just ounces between top anglers at Edenderry Festival

By
myleskelly
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Edenderry Coarse Angling Club reports on their first match of the season fished at the weekend…

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Well the final day of the three day festival didn’t disappoint and this year was literally a festival of ounces. It’s been the closest final day in years with Chris Grehan going into the final day with 9lb 04oz  he drew an end peg on Killeen and put another 18lb 02oz on to his weight to fall just 15 ounces short of top man Bob Clough Warrington with 28lb 05oz. Bob’s display over the week has been outstanding as he drew mid section all week and he thoroughly deserved his victory – a brilliant bloke too who lives for his fishing.

We have to take our hats off to the Station House and the two Emma’s who’s hospitality was outstanding and they way they looked after us all week and put on a brilliant night for the presentation last night on behalf of the club thank you girls!

Again thank you to our sponsors John Foley and Pat Morrissey to which the club is forever grateful. That’s it for another year so roll on next year!

Results

Overall 

1. Bob Clough 28-05
2. Chris Grehan 27-06
3. Tony Price 25-09
4. Danny Martin 25-08
5. Gal Charnock 24-00
6. Terry Guthrie 23-13.

Day three sections

Rhode
1.Paul Hughes 10-04
2.John Easton 9-01
3. Mick Hargreaves 8-04.
Killeen
1. Chris Grehan 18-02
2. Paul Denson 12-10
3. Gal Charnock 9-04
Toberdaly
1. Gavin Charnock 9-00
2.Tony Mackett 7-14
3. Peter Keenan 7-06.

Report and photos courtesy of Edenderry Coarse Angling Club

Go fishing…

New members are always welcome to Edenderry Coarse Angling Club.

Apart from the 262 permanent swims that have been created for the match angler on this unique fishery, a number of stretches have been prepared to cater for the pleasure fisherman and the junior angler. Included among these is the famous Edenderry Branch Line. Fished 12 months a year, this highly productive venue regularly produces catches in excess of 50lb per session. Bream, tench, roach, rudd, hybrids, carp, perch and gudgeon are the principal fish species present.

NCFFI

Edenderry Coarse Angling Club are affiliated to the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland and are members of the Angling Council the National Governing Body for coarse and predator angling. www.ncffi.ie

edenderry

Blue shark, big conger, specimen skate and more at Courtmacsherry

By
myleskelly
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Anglers out with Mark Gannon and Sean Maxwell from Courtmacsherry Sea Angling Centre are getting some great fishing in the last week. Amongst the catches was one of the first blue shark caught this year.

blue shark

The 7th June saw a blue shark caught by Graham from the Dublin Fire brigade crew, while fishing off Courtmacsherry from the Lady Louise skippered by Séan Maxwell.

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Specimen length skate

June 10th saw another ton up Specimen skate for the Lady Louise. Skipper Sean Maxwell also has the heaviest shark landed so far this year.

John Dory
John Dory

Conditions freshened on the 11th but Mark’s and Sean’s anglers had good fun gilling for pollack off Dunworley in the shelter. They were thrilled to see an unexpected john dory in the catch.

Conger
Conger

Fishing at anchor saw some great congers landed on June 12th including this brute!

Make a booking

Courtmacsherry Sea Angling Centre is one of Ireland’s Premier Angling Centres based in the picturesque village of Courtmacsherry located only 30 miles 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 self-drive 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 self-drive 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: [email protected]
Web: www.courtmacsherryangling.ie

Lots of pike for anglers in the mid Shannon area

By
myleskelly
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Adrian Duffy, IFI, reports that Aaron of AM Angling is continuing to mix it up with the pike in the Mid-Shannon area. Conditions were far from favourable and the winds made it rough and uncomfortable at times. All the same Aaron’s clients saw plenty of action and managed 68 fish over 3 days. The fish were not huge, with the biggest going 14lb and only 3 other double figure fish landed, but there were plenty between 7 and 9lbs and everyone enjoyed catching these feisty predators.

Go fishing…

AM Pike Guiding caters for the seasoned pike hunter as well as the novice angler. We operate by bank and by boat. Give us a call for rates and bookings.

Phone: 0877682479

Great light gear fishing for pollack and wrasse on Galway Bay

By
myleskelly
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John Fleming reports from Galway Bay…

Very hard going on Saturday. Spurdog and tope were the initial plan but with a very strong and squally westerly wind that was soon shot in the foot. We went on the reefs instead looking for wrasse and pollock. Wrasse didn’t really play ball but we got a couple and shane had a gorgeous cuckoo. Shane also had a nice red gurnard. We also had a few good pollock with Keith getting this beauty about 10lb in only 30 feet of water.

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A big pollack from a shallow mark

Sunday was a different story with a nice westerly breeze allowing us to drift slowly over the reefs inshore. We set out targeting pollack and wrasse. The plan was do a few hours lure fishing with soft plastics and metal jigs and they certainly did their job with the pollack and wrasse absolutely smashing them.

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Ballan wrasse

We tried for tope and spurs for a couple of hours but unfortunately no joy.
All the same we had a great fun day on the light gear

Pollack
Pollack

Go fishing…

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.
Package deals available

Address: Baile an tSagairt, Spiddal, Co. Galway.
Telephone: +353 (0)87 7571320
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlueSharkAngling

Blue Shark Angling Galway,
Phone John Fleming : +353 (0)87 7571320

Kevin Johnson wins Arvagh Seniors Festival on 61.98kg

By
myleskelly
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Congratulations to Kevin Johnson who won this years Arvagh Seniors Festival on 61.98kg. The 5 day event was fished at a number of venues; Rockfield, Kevins, Corfree, Dernafest, Swan Lakes all in the Gowna/Arvagh area.

Fishing over the 5 days saw some incredible weights returned and the top 10 anglers averaged better than 51kg a man.

  1. Kevin Johnson 61.98kg
  2. Steve Canty 61.17kg
  3. Nigel Houldsworth 56.05kg
Winners of the Arva Seniors Festival with Philomena and Eamonn Gray Organisers and Proprieters of Breffni Arms Hotel Arvagh
Winners of the Arva Seniors Festival with Philomena and Eamonn Gray Organisers and Proprieters of Breffni Arms Hotel Arvagh

In total 35 anglers took part in the event and they caught and released 1179.9 kg during the competition. Well done to all.

You can find out more about the Breffni Arms angling festivals here: https://www.facebook.com/breffniangling/

Nice Trout Fishing for Noel on the River Nore

By
David Byrne
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Fishing guide Noel Molloy has been having some nice fishing on the River Nore over the last few weeks. Noel has been using nymphs and dries and has had some very nice trout for himself and his clients. The water levels have been good and even though there was a flood in the river last week after heavy rain, levels dropped and the water cleared fairly quickly.

The are some olives about and mayfly was sporadic to say the least and the cool breezes have not helped matters. However, despite the unfavourable weather for flies hatches, nymphs always seem to produce good results when the hatches are sparse. If you fancy a days guided fishing on the beautiful River Nore why not get in touch with Noel!

Go Fishing

Noreside Flyfishing is located in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. Noel provides fly-fishing for wild brown trout on the River Nore and some of its tributaries. Guiding and tuition are also available. To contact Noel please call on 00 353 86 3608865. Noel can also be contacted through his website www.noresideflyfishing.com and Facebook page.

Salmon fishing steady at Delphi

By
myleskelly
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David McEvoy reports from Delphi Lodge….

Fishing here at Delphi has been steady since my last update, with fourteen fish landed, mainly grilse, with a few springers thrown in for good measure. Conditions have been excellent with the river varying in height from 60 to 44 this morning.

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Landing a wild salmon at Delphi. Just enough time for a quick photo before the recovery and release.

Warren Osako continued his good run of form with two fish on the 5th, the first a sparkling grilse of approx. 3lbs from the Rock Pool on a Collie Dog and the second of approx. 4lbs, from the Stream on Finlough, also on a Collie Dog. Kurt Roth also had one from the Stream on Finlough of 4lbs on a Willie Gunn. Warren had another from the Stream on Finlough on the 6thof 2lbs4ozs, again on a Collie Dog. In the afternoon his wife Susan had a beautiful grilse of 5lbs6ozs from the Deadman’s on a Cascade and her fishing partner Nancy Richerson, landed her first ever salmon, a fish of 2lbs10ozs, from the Quarry, also on a Cascade. Kurt Roth finished off the day with one of 6lbs7ozs from the Stream on Finlough on a Willie Gunn.

On the 7thShauna Waterer stole the limelight with a sea liced fish of 9lbs14ozs from the Quarry Pool on a Park Shrimp. In the afternoon Kurt Roth, again to the fore, landed two in 30 minutes from the Kings Pool of 3lbs15ozs and 4lbs3ozs on guess what, a Willie Gunn. There was only one landed yesterday. Michael Osgerby landed his first ever salmon, weighing in at 3lbs13.5ozs on a Posh Tosh from the Meadow Pool.

This morning Peter Eaton had a tremendous start to his week, when he landed a sea liced fish of 7lbs5ozs from the Rock Pool on a Red Francis. Wayne Byrne had a fish from Boat point on Finlough of 6lbs1oz on a Cascade. Bas Maiburg from the Netherlands on his first day’s salmon fishing managed to land his first ever. The fish was caught in the Stream on Finlough, weighed in at 4lbs9.5ozs and took a Collie Dog. Bas is still in shock and I hope he doesn’t think that salmon fishing is that easy!

Water levels are excellent at the moment and even though there is no significant rainfall till Thursday, conditions should be ideal as the system is well topped up. There are some rods available this week and next, and then we are pretty full for the following four weeks. In other words, if you want to try your luck at Delphi give us a shout in the next few days.

David McEvoy
Delphi Fishery

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

Paul Boothby and Tony Hopkins clear winners of the Inniscarra Feeder Pairs Festival.

By
myleskelly
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Inniscarra TDL reports on the Inniscarra Feeder Pairs Festival…
Inniscarra

07 June: Congratulations to winning duo Paul Boothby and Tony Hopkins clear winners of the Inniscarra Feeder Pairs Festival.

This inaugural event saw, for the first time in Ireland, fishing ‘continental style’ with anglers sharing a peg. It was a well played out competition which saw competitors from the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands fish together five sections on Inniscarra by rotation.

winners

Going into the final day of the Festival all eyes were on the top five. It was a race among the top pairs as four out of the five headed to the Garden Centre where we had seen some good bream catches throughout the week. It was always going to be difficult to beat Tony & Paul who had 104kg between them already.

weights and positions

 

Well done to all. Thank you to the sponsors, match organiser Pat Falvey, and hosts O’Callaghans Bar & Guest House

Find out more…

For details of the venues, a downloadable copy of the calendar, 2018 festival results and a directory of angler friendly accommodation in the local area please visit www.ncffi.ie/inniscarra-angling.

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