Hard plastics working for West Cork bass

By

-

May 28, 2019

David Norman has been getting some good sport with the West Cork bass. Fishing hard plastics is the tactic that has been working. He’s fishing the current set of neap tides with good success and expects even more as the bigger tides come in the next couple of weeks.

West Cork Bass

David Norman is a Clonakilty based Bass Fishing Guide and Coach specialising in Shore Based Lure Fishing & Workshops.

Notes: Having intensively fished for Bass (Catch & Release) on the West Cork Coast plus all of the recognised Bass fishing counties of Ireland I want to share with other like-minded anglers the thrills of responsible lure fishing for Bass on a One-to-One basis over a limited number of trips throughout the key times of the Bass fishing Year, which for me is June – Sept, sometimes earlier or later depending on how the weather is behaving…
I can offer a range of options around key tides, to include night fishing, in a safe and environmentally conscious manner including bespoke workshops to help build knowledge and confidence

Mobile: 0858492691
Email: [email protected]
FB: West Cork Bass
Web: West Cork Bass
INSTAGRAM: westcorkbass

Mixed reports from Mask as weather hampers mayfly hatches

By

Kevin Crowley

-

May 28, 2019

Ronan Cusack has mixed reports from Mask this week as weather conditions were far from ideal for mayfly fishing. Fly hatches were sparse with the best of the fly along the south eastern part of the lake.

Tom Sweeney and Michael Hegarty from Cork had a good day on Friday last, landing 10 trout on wets (best fish 2.5lbs). Joe Fitzharris fished with UK angler Adrian Blackwell for a few days last week, and reported having plenty of action in the shallows on days when conditions were right. Adrian’s best fish was just over 4lbs, taken on a buzzer pattern.

Annual visitors from Scotland John Webb and Mike Donaghy spent 3 days on Mask this week with Ronan Cusack fishing a mixture of wets and dries. Their best fish for the trip was a lovely 4.5lbs trout caught on a wet mayfly.

John Webb from Scotland with a nice Mask trout

Billy Graham and a group of friends from Northern Ireland stayed at Halls Angling Centre last week and they had some good buzzer fishing throughout the week (best fish 4.5lbs). Local anglers Denis Kelleher and Matty Lally had 5 good trout on wets along the Rocky Shore in windy conditions over the weekend (best fish 1.75lbs).

Young Darren Sweeney from Cork with his first Mask trout

Tourmakeady Angling Club held the European Cup last week which was supported by 98 anglers. This competition is a heaviest fish competition with a 15” size limit. In first place was well-known angler Joe Creane from Roundstone, with a trout of 3.07lbs. Second place went to Niall Burns with a trout weighing 2.09lbs, and in third position was Anthony Corcoran with a trout of 2.08lbs.

Joe Creane (on left) winner of the European Cup on Lough Mask for 2019

Some lovely salmon from the Blackwater, grilse caught too

By

myleskelly

-

May 28, 2019

Paul Whelan was out for a cast on the Weir at Fort William on Thursday last week. He caught and released a lovely salmon of about 10lb. All in day’s work! On Friday Martin Lilly, also fishing at Fort William, had a cracking fish of about 14lbs on the Glenmore Beat.

salmon catch and release — Paul about to release his salmon #CPRsavesfish

The Ballyduff Bridge Fishery was in action on Friday too. They had a salmon of around 5lbs caught on the fly at the Bridge Beat. They also saw a nice few fish running through the fishery. The following day they had 2 salmon; one of around 14lbs and another about 8lbs.

The Blackwater Salmon Fishery had a fish on Friday. Lower Kilmurray was the beat that produced the goods.

Paul Whelan was back in the river again on Sunday. He fished the Monastery Stream at Fortwilliam where the Bishops Beat saw another fine fish which was released. Just yesterday morning Fort William had another salmon the Castle beat. This was their first grilse of the season and it was caught by Malcom Green.

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

Fresh water finally at Delphi and more to come

By

myleskelly

-

May 28, 2019

David McEvoy reports from Delphi Lodge….

28 May: At this stage it finally looks like there is a change in the weather, which will be most welcome for all salmon anglers and indeed farmers and gardeners will be glad to see some rain too. May had been extremely dry up until Saturday the 25^th, with only 15mm of rain, which is just slightly more than the record here, which stands at 10mm in February 1986. Since then we had 27mm on Saturday night and Sunday morning and 7mm on Monday morning. There has also been some heavy showers and there is more persistent rain forecast from Wednesday on.

Erriff Fishery 2018 Newsletter Web

As a result of the prolonged dry spell, the river had fallen to -6. The rain on Saturday night put it up to 20 by Sunday morning and it’s now at 15, which is low enough, but it looks like a flood compared to -6. No fish have been landed since the rain, but we have seen fresh fish running and there was a grilse lost yesterday in the Waterfall. Hopefully the freshening up of the system will bring in some fish and put them in the mood!

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

Robertas Zilaitis wins Ivan Price Cup, Ballinamore Festival underway

By

myleskelly

-

May 28, 2019

Lakelands Angling Ballinamore reports on the Ballinamore Angling Festival…

Ivan Price Cup

The IVAN PRICE CUP, a one day open sponsored by Abbey Lodge and Shortts Heritage Bar was set up in 2018 to honour the efforts of local man Ivan and his contribution to Angling tourism locally. This year sadly, we fished in his memory with a fantastic tournament out of 60 anglers and we were delighted to welcome his wife Dorothy and their immediate family to present to the winners.

prize giving — Robertas Zilaitis receives this prizes

Congratulations to Go & Catch Feeder Fishing Team member Robertas Zilaitis who is this years winner and who takes home the crystal trophy. Robertas won the match with a superb performance on the tip at Grassy Bank, Lough Garadice for 9.050kg. In second place was Mark Harris with 8.400kg at the Deeps and in Third position, Richard Pratt with 7.950kg at Pumphouse. Also on Lough Garadice at the Deeps was Andrew Lightbown whose 7.100kg weight made for fourth position.

Many thanks to Steve & Sonia of Abbey Lodge B&B, Fenagh and Terry Shortt and staff at Heritage Bar, Ballinamore.

BALLINAMORE ANGLING FESTIVAL 2019

39 anglers checked in for the 2019 Festival at the Ballinamore Tourist Office this morning. The competition features match fishing on 5 venues over 5 days by rotation.

Last year’s winner, Bob Nudd leads on Day 1

Wild wet weather swept across the County Leitrim countryside interspersed with hailstones and sunshine for day one. The top weight today comes from Bob Nudd, last years festival winner who also took the same position on the first day of the 2018 festival. Bob enjoyed fishing the 15m pole at Church Shore, ‘Deeps’, Lough Garadice for 97 roach and 12.500kg to win the match. In second position was Barry Chapman with 12.100kg on the tip at Connolly’s Shore.

The features match fishing venues are just a selection of a variety of venues on the Shannon-Erne Waterway;

B Church Shore ‘Deeps’ & Cully’s Shore
C Connolly’s Shore, Lough Garadice
E ‘Rocks’ Lough Scur
F ‘Pumphouse’ Lough Scur
G Kiltybardan

Report courtesy of National Coarse fishing Federation of Ireland www.ncffi.ie and Lakelands Angling Ballinamore

Better than expected fishing for Fermoy Festival

By

myleskelly

-

May 28, 2019

NCFFI report on the weekend’s fishing at Fermoy…

Blackwater

This fishing for the festival anglers was better than expected with conditions less than favourable; gin clear and low water levels on the River Blackwater. Fermoy AC were met with less than half the usual swims to fish from with the collapse of part of the weir causing the water levels upstream to drop 5ft. The fishing is inaccessible with this decrease in the water level which has led to some banks being more than 8ft from the waters edge. But pegs were found for the visiting anglers.

Joe Slattery FCAA, Tommy Lawton FCAA, Malc Nicholson, Cedric Baldwin, Nick Chaffer, Brian Enwright sponsor The Cross Bar.

The winner of the Fermoy Coarse Angling Spring Festival 2019 is Cedric Baldwin of Nottingham; a great achievement on his very first visit to the River Blackwater, winning with a total weight of 33lb 2ozs. it was a close finish to the festival and 2nd Nick Chaffer, Mirfield with 30lb 6ozs, 3rd was Malc Nicholson, Nottingham with 29lb 6ozs, 4th Wayne Swinscoe with 29lb 4ozs, 5th Martin Highe, Mirfield 27lb 10ozs.

in Fermoy

Day one winner was Cedric Baldwin with 17lb from the middle of the Meadows section, Martin Highe, was 2nd with 14lb 13ozs from section C below the Viaduct and 3rd was Ian Daly, Mirfield with 13lb 8ozs from Castlehyde.

Day two winner was Malc Nicholson, with 14lb 2ozs from the salmon hut on section C, 2nd was Wayne Swinscoe with 12lb 8ozs and 3rd was John Whitehouse, Darlington with 10lb 6 ozs.

Day three winner was Dave Limbert with 8lb 12ozs, 2nd Cedric Balwin with 8lb 6 ozs and 3rd was Craig Highe with 8lb 4ozs. it was tougher on the river today as water levels continue to drop.

table of results

During festival week two days were spent on Inniscarra Lake at the Garden Centre where the 24 anglers had some great catches. Winner of the event was Nigel Hirst, Mirfield with 72lb 2ozs, 2nd Martin Highe 69lb, 1ozs, 3rd Trev Platt with 39lb 12ozs.

Fermoy Ac would like to congratulate the winners and to thank the sponsors, The Cross Bar, Brian Enwright (main festival sponsor), The Wagon Tavern, The Avondhu Bar, TJ Goodtymes, The Grand Hotel, and the B&B’s, Cork Crystal and Charles McCarthy MIG Insurance. Thanks too to the land and fishery owners, Chris (Kipper) O’Donovan for the use of the wheelie boat and to Fermoy Rowing Club for their consideration of the anglers.

National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI

The National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI has been representing coarse angling in Ireland since 1962, the federation was formed by a group of angling clubs who foresaw the need for governance and a presence on the international match scene. The founding clubs were Fermoy AC, Prosperous AC, Cavan AC, Royal Enfield CAC and Ballinamore AC who were at this time facilitating the huge numbers of visiting anglers coming to match fish working hard to promote angling tourism which continues today.

Coarse angling in Ireland is closely linked to tourism due to the fine selection of natural venues from the North to the South of the island utilised by anglers from home and overseas. Domestic championships have as a result always been open to the visiting angler and the festivals run by our clubs continue to attract large numbers from overseas. For details of future events please visit www.ncffi.ie

Hard plastics working for West Cork bass

By

myleskelly

-

May 28, 2019

David Norman has been getting some good sport with the West Cork bass. Fishing hard plastics is the tactic that has been working. He’s fishing the current set of neap tides with good success and expects even more as the bigger tides come in the next couple of weeks.

West Cork Bass

David Norman is a Clonakilty based Bass Fishing Guide and Coach specialising in Shore Based Lure Fishing & Workshops.

Notes: Having intensively fished for Bass (Catch & Release) on the West Cork Coast plus all of the recognised Bass fishing counties of Ireland I want to share with other like-minded anglers the thrills of responsible lure fishing for Bass on a One-to-One basis over a limited number of trips throughout the key times of the Bass fishing Year, which for me is June – Sept, sometimes earlier or later depending on how the weather is behaving…
I can offer a range of options around key tides, to include night fishing, in a safe and environmentally conscious manner including bespoke workshops to help build knowledge and confidence

Mobile: 0858492691
Email: [email protected]
FB: West Cork Bass
Web: West Cork Bass
INSTAGRAM: westcorkbass

Mixed reports from Mask as weather hampers mayfly hatches

By

Kevin Crowley

-

May 28, 2019

Ronan Cusack has mixed reports from Mask this week as weather conditions were far from ideal for mayfly fishing. Fly hatches were sparse with the best of the fly along the south eastern part of the lake.

Tom Sweeney and Michael Hegarty from Cork had a good day on Friday last, landing 10 trout on wets (best fish 2.5lbs). Joe Fitzharris fished with UK angler Adrian Blackwell for a few days last week, and reported having plenty of action in the shallows on days when conditions were right. Adrian’s best fish was just over 4lbs, taken on a buzzer pattern.

Annual visitors from Scotland John Webb and Mike Donaghy spent 3 days on Mask this week with Ronan Cusack fishing a mixture of wets and dries. Their best fish for the trip was a lovely 4.5lbs trout caught on a wet mayfly.

Billy Graham and a group of friends from Northern Ireland stayed at Halls Angling Centre last week and they had some good buzzer fishing throughout the week (best fish 4.5lbs). Local anglers Denis Kelleher and Matty Lally had 5 good trout on wets along the Rocky Shore in windy conditions over the weekend (best fish 1.75lbs).

Tourmakeady Angling Club held the European Cup last week which was supported by 98 anglers. This competition is a heaviest fish competition with a 15” size limit. In first place was well-known angler Joe Creane from Roundstone, with a trout of 3.07lbs. Second place went to Niall Burns with a trout weighing 2.09lbs, and in third position was Anthony Corcoran with a trout of 2.08lbs.

Some lovely salmon from the Blackwater, grilse caught too

By

myleskelly

-

May 28, 2019

Paul Whelan was out for a cast on the Weir at Fort William on Thursday last week. He caught and released a lovely salmon of about 10lb. All in day’s work! On Friday Martin Lilly, also fishing at Fort William, had a cracking fish of about 14lbs on the Glenmore Beat.

The Ballyduff Bridge Fishery was in action on Friday too. They had a salmon of around 5lbs caught on the fly at the Bridge Beat. They also saw a nice few fish running through the fishery. The following day they had 2 salmon; one of around 14lbs and another about 8lbs.

The Blackwater Salmon Fishery had a fish on Friday. Lower Kilmurray was the beat that produced the goods.

Paul Whelan was back in the river again on Sunday. He fished the Monastery Stream at Fortwilliam where the Bishops Beat saw another fine fish which was released. Just yesterday morning Fort William had another salmon the Castle beat. This was their first grilse of the season and it was caught by Malcom Green.