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Perch, trout & pike for Austrian guests of Angling Services Ireland in Boyle

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IFI staff
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Angling Services Ireland are back on the water after the summer break and started in style. As the warm weather and low water conditions didn’t really suit going after pike, guide Bodo concentrated on other predators for his new clients Petra and Fritz. Thankfully the wider Boyle area provides numerous alternatives when pike angling becomes difficult or conditions don’t suit.

The two Austrian anglers enjoyed some serious perch fish with fish up to 44cm, but also tried their hands on some light tackle lure fishing for trout and were rewarded with numerous trout to 52cm and even a few accidental bonus pike. All in all a great experience for Petra and Fritz which whetted their appetite for more predator fishing with Angling Services Ireland in the future.

Go Fishing

Bodo Funke, Angling Services, Ireland

Pike, Game and Coarse fishing Guide

Notes: Angling Services Ireland are based in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, in the North-West of Ireland, an area with many superb angling opportunities.

The Proprietor Bodo Funke holds the Marine and Countryside Guiding Certificate (achieved with distinction) and his expertise and local knowledge will be to your avail when you go on a guided angling trip or angling holiday with Angling Services Ireland. Pike fishing, Fly-fishing for Pike, Game fishing for wild Brown Trout, Float- tubing, Coarse fishing. Salmon fishing and Sea-angling can be organised.

Address: Angling Services Ireland, 3 Canal View, Deerpark, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Telephone/Fax::+353 71 9663580 or +353 86 6011878

Email: info@anglingservicesireland.com

Website: www.anglingservicesireland.com

Mick Kearney Open – Sunday, Sept 14th, Kilmuckridge

By
Paul O'Reilly
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The Mick Kearney Open will be fished on Sunday, September 14th on beaches in Wexford with the Upton Court Hotel acting as HQ for the event. Fishing time will be from midday to 4pm with check-in between 9am and 10.30m.

Entry will be €25 for seniors, €15 for OAPs with juniors fishing for free.

 

East Coast Sea Angling – Wicklow to Blackwater

New Ross & District fish 2-dayer at the Hook

By
Paul O'Reilly
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A pattern seems to be developing over the last few years when fishing any opens on the Hook peninsula, one is it’s hard there to get the weather to play ball for a few days in a row and the other is you can guarantee Brendan Butler will be in the mix at the end of the competition.

The first day of the event the decision was made to fish the Slade side of the peninsula and it didn’t disappoint with fish being caught right from the start. Rumours trickled through that Joe Ryan had landed a nice bass and lost a bigger one!! But not to be out done, Brendan Butler landed a super fish of his own – a 50cm specimen wrasse. A steady flow of dogfish were being landed the full stretch of the rocks.

In the Junior section, Kai Butler wasn’t going to be out done by his dad and landed a nice bag of wrasse, pollock and dogs to eventually win the section with Philip Kennedy Ryan hot on his heels all weekend.

Day 1 results

  1. Brendan Butler
  2. Les Arnold
  3. Jimmy Whitty
  4. Pat Kehoe
  5. Mick Mythen
  • Junior – Kai Butler
  • Pool – Joe Ryan (Bass 65cm)

Day 2 was scheduled to be fished at Hook Head, but unfortunately the weather didn’t play ball and the decision was made to fish Churchtown. With the wind howling from the east, it may have dampened the fishing but it didn’t dampen the anglers’ spirits. What was totally unfishable at the Hook was like a different country in Churchtown, with the wind blowing off the land, the sea was flat calm and the sun was up.

As stated the fishing was slow, but the cream always rises to the top and that man Brendan Butler was at it again, landing a fine Bullhuss of 1m  to lead the charge. The stand out performers on day two were definitely the two juniors – Philip Kennedy Ryan landing an impressive bag of 13 fish in very difficult fishing but unfortunately this was just short of Kai Butler, who had a savage 2 days fishing winning both days. Well done Kai.

Day 2 results

  1. Brendan Butler
  2. Joe Ryan
  3. Peter Onderjack
  4. Mick Mythen
  5. Les Arnold
  • Junior – Kai Butler
  • Pool – Brendan Butler (1m Bullhuss)

Sea Angling from Bannow Bay to Dunbrattin Head

Enfield hosts 4th outing of the Leinster Qualifiers

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Ambrose Devlin reports on the latest round of Leinster qualifiers: 

Sunday 24th saw the 4th outing of the Leinster Qualifiers, which was fished on the Royal Canal around Enfield.

On arrival at Section’s A/B, competitors could see that, unfortunately, the helpful bit of colour that was there on the last match had gone, making it hard going. Section’s C/D had a much better colour.

The Enfield Barber came out on top with a great performance, weighing in with over 17lbs. He even won the most important prize of any match e2 (again) from Alan and myself.

Results.

  1. ………Brian O’Donoghue………17-10.
  2. ……..Sean Ward………………….7-10.
  3. ……..Johnny Collins……………..6-12.

Sections

  • …….Colin Oliver. ……………..2-00.
  • …….Donal McGuirk…………..5-11.
  • …….Pat Bartley………………..3-07.
  • …….Johnny Bailey…………….3-10.

Enfield and Edenderry Coarse Angling Centres

Young anglers impress with Eire Bass

By
Paul O'Reilly
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A good calm week for the third week in August augured well for the Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan who has sent in a recent report on his forays in Cork Harbour:

My last report outlined plenty of small bass in the harbour. The week just gone, produced a better stamp of fish. Ivan O’Brien had tried to get out with me a number of times, but something always got in the way of our arrangements. This week he managed to wet a line. He was anxious to learn about saltwater fly fishing, in particular pollack on the fly.

The first mark was for bass, and it turned out to be so good we decided to give the pollack a miss. As can be seen from the photo below, Ivan had one fine big bass and a number of smaller ones as a bonus.

Ivan with a decent bass

He promised to return for pollack on the fly, which he is very keen to master. The guide even managed a decent sized Bass for himself.

Richie made sure he hooked up too!

I got a call from a very frustrated Tadgh and Caroline Dineen on Friday of the weekend with a request to get their two boys out fishing because there were no fish left in the Blackwater near them due to a substantial fish kill. One boy in particular, Aaron, was a keen fly angler. I told the father that it was not possible to take them out because I had promised my good friend, an extremely hard-working Dr. Jacques Bronkhorst, that I was taking him out for a well-earned cast. The Doc constantly reminds me that his taxes are paying my pension, so every so often I have to show willing! In fairness, when Jacques heard my dilemma, he offered up his place to the two boys.

I duly rang Tadgh back and both Adam and Aaron arrived the following morning eager to fish. Adam was not a keen angler, but his younger brother Aaron certainly was. The latter could cast a very heavy saltwater fly fishing line with just a modicum of instruction. I was seriously impressed with his casting ability.

Aaron and a good pollack

Adam managed a few pollack on the fly himself and enjoyed the experience. Aaron was anxious to convert him to fishing, I could see it was a genuinely heartfelt desire. Two happy chappies!

Adam gets in on the act with a fly caught pollack

If you want to book a great day’s fishing for bass or pollack in Cork harbour with Richie, see below…

Eire Bass

Address Cobh Cork Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 86 1940744 Website: corkbass.com
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Sharks and a good mix of fish for West Cork Charters

By
Myles Kelly
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David Edwards, skipper of the Silver Dawn at  West Cork Charters, reports on a couple of recent outings…

Some days, it’s not always about the biggest fish or even the most fish. Thursday was such a day. Heading out with Nick Ward and his sons Conor and Séan, we decided to try for a few mackerel before heading offshore for Shark.

We soon spotted birds feeding and dropped lines on what looked like mackerel. All seemed good until the lads pulled their lines up to find full strings of small Bass! We moved and struggled to find a handful of Mackerel along with a solitary Pollack. Confident that we would catch plenty of Whiting for bait offshore, we headed South.

blue shark

Within 5 minutes of starting our drift, we had 2 Blue Sharks onboard. We ended the day with 11 Blues but that’s only half the story. Conor caught a specimen sized Blue Whiting along with many other Whiting to 2lb.

while Nick had a real shock, when a Bluefin Tuna took the Whiting he was dropping. While the line was still in his hand. He was using braid, so he was very lucky that he hadn’t wrapped it around his hand when attaching the float.

This was shortly followed by the sight of huge numbers of Dolphins feeding with many huge Bluefin and hundreds of large Shearwaters diving into the maelstrom.

No monsters hooked but if Carlsberg did fishing trips…

A rare flat calm day offshore on Saturday, very warm and Sharks a little quieter than of late. That said, the guys still managed to get 8 Blues to Silver Dawn and missed another 5 or 6.

Wreckfish
Wreckfish

A good mix of species on the bottom, including Megrim & Blue Whiting but topped by 2 Stone Bass/Wreck Fish.

Go fishing…

West Cork Charters

Address Courtmacsherry Cork Ireland Mobile Phone: +353 83 449 1403 Website: westcorkcharters.com
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Good catches on Concra for CM Lakelands

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Lough Muckno

It was a very busy weekend for the CM Lakelands Feeder Club, with Feederking Qualifier 7 held on and a club match both taking place.

The club match was held on Lough Muckno, with the Concra Wood pegs in play and there were plenty of fish to be caught.

Robertas Zilaitis continued his fine form with an impressive win from peg 64, Robertas caught skimmers, hybrids and roach to win with 15.850kg.

Piotr Horbiński was 2nd overall with a weight of 14.870kg of skimmers, hybrids and odd roach.

Philip Jackson joined the club match today and he had 84 fish for 12.260kg, Philip had some lovely skimmers in his catch.

Section winners were Rimantas Kondrackas 11.870kg and Paul Leese who won his section by 30 grams from Stephen Shannon.

Nearly all of the club members were using VDE Groundbaits and products. Club members are getting some great results lately using VDE.

Lough Muckno

 

Blue skies, blue seas and blue sharks for Clohessy in Cork

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Jim Clohessy of TopFisher.eu has been on the water shark hunting lately and covering wrecks, with some fine fish to show for it:

Thursday we had a nice shark session albeit it was a change of plan…. It was rather manky at first so we shelved a +20 trip and settled for a deep area around 12. We needn’t have worried. After a slow start the sharks came on heavy with the incoming tide.

Mackerel remain very patchy. It adds complications to planning trips as you could be an hour catching a dozen.

A good blue puts a bend in the rod

It was an incredibly quiet day in terms of dolphins and even birdlife. We did get a visit from the Inland Fisheries Ireland rib on a tuna patrol – unlicensed boats cannot troll for tuna.

Conditions did improve and our spin back to base was fine. All told it was a day of good fishing and great craic. Some big sharks out there.

Saturday was almost the perfect day… almost.

The forecast promised low winds. Low winds are great for motoring but less good for shark fishing where a decent drift suits best.

A beautiful morning at paddy’s point.
Skua is sitting well on the Extreme EXT1800SS trailer. It’s like a work of art

We launched from Paddy’s Point and began the usual quest for a few mackerel. Again they were very scarce. You really couldn’t try shark fishing without a prepared block of rubby dubby. Of course our plans included a visit to a wreck so we did need a few fresh mackerel for bait.

Calm as you like

We struggled and baled out with eight. The spin out was a perfect cruise. The Suzuki was pushing us along at 25knots for 4500 revs @ .8/.9 L per Nm. Very efficient.

We arrived at the wreck and after determining what drift was doing we proceeded to drop. To say the drift ended up frustrating was an understatement. It was well nigh impossible to repeat a drift consistently such was the was the way wind and tide were.

Still, I did get my single-hook wreck trace to the action area and each time I had a fairly decent ling. Andrew started on lures but soon discovered that wrecks can be tough mistresses. I found that myself even, losing gear in the first few runs. Andrew was fishing Dennett Jumbo Hockeyes and was managing some small whiting and pouting as well as decent ling. We kept some of these for bait.

We were waiting for a forecast breeze. It never came so we had to deploy our chum and make the most of it. It was incredible really. There seemed to be a queue of sharks… many came from underneath rather than coming in high. I guess our trail was sinking quickly in the slow drift.

I had modified some traces after swearing against circle hooks, so I was back to a barbless J hook. It was a dream for t-barring at the side of the boat compared to the circles.

On a small boat it is best to fight one shark at a time. We did get caught with a double hook up at one stage.

Eventually the bite was so consistent we just took it in turns… one bait at a time, one shark at a time. We caught as many sharks on whiting, pollack and pouting than we caught on mackerel.

I was fishing the ground as well for a while until the shark got so busy I couldn’t. It was rather disappointing. Mainly dogs. No haddock nor whiting. I wonder who the commercials will blame for that?

Jim changed to a multiplier setup for Saturday’s run, trying out a Kali Kunnan HOLO 20/30 rod. Great craic for a not so expensive rod.

We packed up before our chum block was gone… beat out!

We had a cracking run back to base. Andrew, an ex-175 driver, was blown away by the Suzuki 140BG. It really suits the 175 so well.

We had some filleting to do before Andrew had the long spin home. A superb trip that will be remembered for a long time for so many reasons.

See Jim’s Facebook Page for a full report and plenty of footage or check out TopFisher.eu for plenty of fishing and boat related tips, tricks and useful information.

First tope for Omagh angler

By
Paul O'Reilly
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Richard Farrow, from Omagh, sent us in this report of his first ever tope!

Richard was fishing from a boat in Lough Swilly on Sunday, August 24th, in pretty good conditions for fishing. He was using mackerel fillet for bait and got a good run as the tide picked up.

It was a lively fish that didn’t stop fighting even after it was brought aboard the boat for unhooking! After a quick photo, the tope was released and swam away strongly.

Sea Fishing North East Donegal

DTAA kids have super day out at Laois Angling Centre

By
Paul O'Reilly
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This great report from the Dublin Trout Angling Association:

Dublin Trout Angling Association members and friends enjoyed a day out last Sunday 24th August at Laois Angling Centre. Fourteen youngsters turned out on the day with most either catching or hooking a fish, using fly fishing as well as bait fishing techniques.

The team at Laois Angling had recently stocked the lakes and so there were fish showing here and there, with both fly and bait equally successful.

Thanks to Laois Angling for hosting us and making every effort to ensure that our participants had a chance of a fish. Being the last weekend before school starts meant that it was quite busy which was great to see, so much interest in angling, with several family groups present, and people of all ages taking part and enjoying this excellent pastime.

Thanks to Declan, Fran, Cathal for organising and helping out and to Evie for volunteering on the day and in advance preparing the lunches and prizes. Big thanks to John Harrington for coming along on the day to lend his support, advice and wisdom to the budding anglers. Thanks also to Mary Harkin in Rory’s who was very generous with her support for the prizes.

Finally, thanks to Inland Fisheries Ireland for their support for this event.

CO LAOIS

 

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