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Wrecking on the radar for Courtmacsherry charter boats

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Pollack, the target!
Pollack, the target!

Mark Gannon in Courtmacsherry tells us it’s always nice to be able to get out in January.  The weather has been good enough and there are plenty of Coalfish about. Pollack are there too but the bigger ones have been scarce so far – mostly all 4 to 5 lbs. No skate yet, but they’ve not been targeted to date. Skate charters are available for those interested. Finally Mark tells us that his charter available for this Sunday – the weather looks good for offshore wrecking with slack tides. Phone 086/8250905.

Courtmacsherry
Pollack

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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: csal@iol.ie
Web: www.courtmacsherryangling.ie

 

 

Wicklow Charters mark the new year with spurdogs and bullhuss

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myleskelly
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WICKLOW BOAT CHARTERS started the year with some fine fish. Kit Dunne and a varied crew fished for 3 days from 30 December to 01 January and had some very enjoyable time on the water. Spurdogs and handsome bullhuss were the catch and it was a great way to end one year and bein the next.

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Spurgod John Mellerick with a spurdog
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Bullhuss in a very on trend leopard print number

Go fishing…

Wicklow Boat Charters

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.

SPECIALIST ANGLING CHARTERS

Specialist Angling Charters are offered for those who wish to target specific species, specimen fish or try new methods of angling.

ANGLING COACHING

Whether you’re a Club, Individual, School or Junior you can have an angling coaching session or programme tailored to suit your needs.

Kit Dunne
Wicklow Boat Charters

Telephone: +353 (0)87 6832179 +353 (0)404 67031
Email: dunnekit@gmail.com Website: www.wicklowboatcharters.ie

Decent fishing at Garadice for Go and Catch anglers

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myleskelly
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The Go and Catch Feeder Fishing Team fished fished a Feeder only Match on December 30th at Lough Garadice. There were 24 anglers taking part and every section produced fish.

Lough Garadice coarse fishing
Robertas Zilaitis with his winning catch on Garadice

The winners were as follows:

  • 1st Robertas Zilaitis (The Deeps, peg 36)
  • 2nd Eimantas Kasalynas (Haughton’s Shore, peg 48)
  • 3rd Jacek Januszewski (Haughton’s Shore, peg 53)

Section Winners as follows:

  • Rimantas Kondrackas (1st Section on Grassy bank)
  • Arnoldas Zutkis (2nd Section on Grassy bank)
  • Charlie Richards (Deeps section)
  • Rory Dunne/Sean Brereton (Haughton’s Shore)

Garadice continued to fish well last weekend with some decent catches at Houghton’s Shore. The club is holding an open match on the lake at the weekend. Booking is by this link

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OPEN FEEDER ONLY match on Lough Muckno, White Island. Limited to 15 Pegs(2in – 1 out)
Draw 8.45 SHARP at White Island Gate 54.118650, -6.728168
Fishing 10.30 – 15.30.
Entry is 20 euro.

 

winter catch from Garadice
Eimantas Kašalynas finished second

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The Go and Catch Feeder Fishing Team is based in Cavan.

Contact: Robertas Zilaitis
Email: robert.zilaitis@gmail.com
Click here for the Go and Catch Facebook page

Winter fishing

South Shore Anglers fish for Heart Children Ireland

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myleskelly
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South Shore Angler’s Paul Mason report on an end of year event at Killiney…

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On Killiney Beach at the end of 2018

Some the east coast’s best anglers put in an appearance on Killiney beach on Saturday for a fishing meet and competition in aid of the Heart Children Ireland.

25 slightly rotund lads after their Christmas stuffing waddled onto Killiney beach on a near perfect day for fishing.

We had to curtail the entry to 26 anglers because of space and rough ground on the left of the beach. Fishing was expected to be fair with not much showing until darkness and the hoards of whiting turned up. The big hitters contacted the unlucky shiny pirahnas early and top up before the deluge.

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A bright eyed dragonet, a change from the silvery whiting

As predicted when darkness fell all hell broke loose with anglers flying up and down the beach getting cards marked . Speed was secret for successful anglers with lots of baited traces at the ready.

Paul Whelan was the overall winner with a creditable 31 fish in zone B , Ciaran Fogarty also had 31 fish in zone A. Well done lads great fishing …
Table of results

It was a very enjoyable day with members of the public intrigued by the event.

Congratulations to Niall for running a very successful competition in aid of a worthy cause , over €400 was raised for Heart Children Ireland.

I forgot to mention the most important people , “the anglers” thank you for supporting this event and buying the calendar.

Go fishing…

South Shore SAC are running the first leg of a new innovate winter league this Sunday 13th Jan.
There will be four legs with the first two run early this year and two later in the year .

Check-in :
Morriscastle car park .10.00-11-30

Fishing : 13.00-18.00 Morriscastle beach.

Nominated baits apply.
Lug, Fish baits and shell fish excluding crab.

Fishing promises to be good with execllent catches in recent days, so sharpen up your 6/0 and enter a competition with a decent payout.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Shore-SAC/147648452021992

Darndale kids on learning angling skills at the Cavan lakes

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Lovely video and a good article on the Dublin Angling Initiative and the work done with Sphere 17m from the Jounal
https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-angling-initiative-4381296-Jan2019/

Flounder, sea trout, mackerel and more for Doengal shore anglers

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Stefan Martin reports from Donegal…

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The Mariners line the beach…

28 December: A fun day out at the daylight league outing during the holidays today. 16 anglers set up in front on the calm inver bay catching some lovely flounders from the off. A few new faces joined in the fishing and everybody on the beach caught fish. An early 38cm flounder for Jason set the mark for longest fish before a treble haul of fish for Christopher. Some good 36cm flounder came on the feed as the tide ebbed and with Dessie and Katie battling it out in zone A it took a late double haul for Dessie to edge it out for overall.. winner of the longest fish cash prize was Jason Greene with a 38cm flounder. In 2nd place overall cash prize was won by Katie McGettigan and 1st place cash was won by Dessie O Keeney.. great fishing well done to all who took part.. There will be no outings now for a few weeks as the boats go back to fish for scad and mackerel. Also a few members were looking for some more club jackets and hoodies or hats so another order will be going in soon if anyone wants to place an order let us know.. the €20 deposit for the Belmullet trip will be taken in January for the April 12th weekend away (Will be refunded down there)

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Plenty of Flounder about

03 January: Early January and still getting mackerel at the pier… fresh bait! The shore is still full of wrasse and the boxing day swimmers said they weren’t even shivering coming out of the water

Shore caught sea trout – lovely video of the release on the Killybegs Mariners Facebook page.

04 January: Day one on the beach for the new year provided an acrobatic silver arrow wave dancing it’s way across the surf which was quickly released back where it belongs, really mild conditions in Donegal and great to be out, off the mark.

Stefan Martin
Killybegs mariners SAC

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mariner.sac

Sea trout fishing - get a licence
Sea trout fishing – get a licence

Robertas Zilaitis wins 4th leg of CM Lakelands winter league on Muckno

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CM Lakelands report on the fourth round of their Lough Muckno Winter Feeder League…

06 January: 34 anglers fished the 4th round of the Lough Muckno feeder league today. Yellow/black and white islands were the sections fished today, with yellow fishing the best with mainly roach caught. The rest of the sections fished hard with the skimmers not really showing.

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Robertas Zilaitis was first

1st overall today was Robertas Zilaitis with 4.060kg of roach, 2nd was Artur Czarnocki with 3.190kg, 3rd was Jim Mcallister with 2.600kg, and mariuz kilan was 4th with 2.540 kg.

Section winners were Leigh Maitland, Brenton Sweeney, shamie winters and Michael Walsh.

Last year’s league winner, Shamie Winters is still in the lead with Robertas Zilaitis hot on his heels in 2nd, Alan Larkin is 3rd and there still is a lot of anglers in with a great chance of making the top 7 and a slice of the €3000 final league pay out.

2 more rounds left, next league match 20th of January .

Top winter fishing on Inniscarra

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Inniscarra Lake TDL report on some end of year fishing from Co. Cork…

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Winter results from Inniscarra

A Christmas open match produced a top weight of 24kg with second in the match 17kg. Fishing into the bay at the Graveyard, the ‘Woods’ section scored over the ‘Meadow’ stretch with the tip and whip favoured methods.

There is no better time than to arrange your next fishing trip to Co. Cork!

The Inniscarra Reservoir offers year round accessible fishing to suit both the leisure and match angler. From St. Patrick’s weekend to the October Bank Holiday weekend we cater for all; small and confined competitions to suit the visiting club angler, one day opens, festivals of 3 and 5 days and those specifically for the feeder angler. New for this year, and for the first time in Ireland is the continental style Inniscarra Feeder Pairs with the season ending as usual with the prestigious FEEDERFEST attracting high profile anglers from overseas. 

Schedule, Calendar etc
Click for more details!

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.

Great fishing on the Bann to end the year

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NCFFI reports on the last match of the year fished on the Lower Bann over the last weekend of 2018…

Prizes
The winners enclosure

A perfect end to 2018 as the River Bann produces a 2-day average match weight of 35kg! Mid Ulster’s angling facility at Portglenone was the venue for the Lower Bann CAA‘s Mc Coy Cup Memorial Match run by Ricky Peoples 29th & 30th December.

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Bo Donaldson on the Lower Bann

Near perfect river conditions on the river made for superb roach catches with Bo Donaldson winning with 51.600kg!

  • 1st Bo Donaldson 51.600kg
  • 2nd Ron Jordan 51.375kg
  • 3rd Philip Jackson 50.950kg
  • 4th Derek Buckley 50.350kg
  • 5th Vincent Walsh 48.925kg
Lower Bann
Philip Jackson with some of his catch

Next week sees a new section of the river open to anglers ahead of the FIPSed Fédération Internationale de la Pêche Sportive en Eau DouceEuropean Championships to be staged here in June 2019.

Go fishing…

Founded in 1974 LBCAA is a friendly and welcoming Coarse Angling Club based around the Lower Bann.
Web: lowerbanncaa.wixsite.com/lowerbanncaa
Facebook: facebook.com/LowerBannCAA/

The Lower Bann CAA is a member of the Ulster Coarse Fishing Federation, UCFF the provincial council of the National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland, NCFFI and the NGB for coarse and predator angling in Ireland.  www.ncffi.ie

First Bar of Silver still to be claimed on the Drowes

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myleskelly
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Shane Gallagher

Opening Day on the Drowes

Despite a large number of rods and excellent conditions no fresh, wild Atlantic salmon were reported from the river on the first day of the 2019 salmon fishing season. Prospects were encouraging with extremely mild conditions and favourable water levels but apart from the odd sighting of fresh spring fish most of the activity on the water was from kelts.

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Anglers on the water

Thanks to all the anglers, both young and old who traveled from near and far to spend the first day of their season on the Drowes. It is always a disappointment not to start the first day of the season with a fresh spring fish but it is some consolation to be back on the river bank, meeting fellow anglers on what has been one of the most pleasant opening days in many years.

International Year of the Salmon

2019 is the International Year of the Salmon and we will be marking it at the Drowes in a very special way.

  • Firstly, all anglers starting their salmon fishing season at the river in 2019 will be given a special stainless steel commemorative pin.
  • Secondly, the angler who catches and releases the first salmon of the year from the river will be presented with the newly commissioned Conservation Cup.
  • Finally the angler who catches and releases the first salmon from the Drowes in 2019 will be presented with a 1 kilo bar of pure silver worth approximately €750.
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A bar of silver for a bar of silver!

A fresh run spring salmon is commonly referred to as a bar of silver and for anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing one it is easy to see why.

Catching and releasing the first salmon of the season, or any salmon during the season, is not by itself, going to address the decline in salmon numbers seen in recent years. However, it can be used to create awareness among the non angling public of how precious a resource the salmon is.

Inland Fisheries Ireland commissioned a report by Millward Brown in 2015 as to the economic contribution of salmon angling to the Irish economy. The findings were that salmon and sea trout angling contributed over €210 million annually to the Irish economy.

In 2015, 25,107 salmon were landed by anglers in Ireland. This means that every salmon landed in Ireland in 2015 was worth €8,364 to the Irish economy. The average weight of the salmon landed by anglers was 2.7kg.
Clearly our salmon are precious. They are in fact more precious and more valuable than the bars of silver to which they are so often compared. (All figures can be fact checked at www.fisheriesireland.ie)

As anglers, as people with an interest in and love for salmon, we can use 2019, the International Year of the Salmon to be mindful of how precious salmon are and to make an extra special effort to ensure its survival and return to abundance in the future.

(Full terms & conditions for eligibility & verification process of C&R will be announced prior to opening day).

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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

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