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Better water and bigger salmon on the Owenea

By
Lindsey Clarke
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Monday 11st  to Sunday 17th June 2018.

The Owenea ran at very low summer levels from Monday to Friday but on Saturday we received a good flood (0.46m) which meant Sunday also had fair levels (0.22m). The gauge average for the week read 0.16 metres. The fishery was very quiet with only 3 visiting rods fishing on Sunday. Despite the poor conditions over the weekdays, there were fair numbers of salmon reported.

On Wednesday, Alan Watson recorded an 8lb salmon cught on fly from beat 9. On Friday Alan reported a 7lb salmon caught on fly from beat 8.

On Saturday, Anthony Carr recorded a 12lb salmon caught on fly from beat 4.

On Sunday, Alan Watson reported  2 salmon weighing 9 & 13lb caught on fly from beat 8 and Anthony Carr accounted for 2 salmon 4 & 15lb caught on fly from beat 4.

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For info/bookings etc on the Owenea Fishery –
Tel: 074 9551141. (9am to 1pm April to May & 7am to 1pm June to Sept).

For beat maps and more visit https://www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/north/owenea.htm

Early mornings and late evenings fish best for the Drowes

By
Lindsey Clarke
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Monday 11st  to Sunday 17th June 2018.

The Drowes ran at very low levels all week. On Monday the gauge read 0.32m and the river steadily fell and by the ‘end of play’ on Sunday the gauge read only 0.29m! Despite the bright conditions and low summer levels the river continued to produce salmon. Early mornings and late evenings brought the best chances. Given here are some of the catches taken from the fishery catch register.

Ray Bentham
Ray Bentham

On Monday, Patrick O’Malley recorded a 6lb grilse caught on prawn from the Sea Pools.

On Tuesday, a Spanish visitor reported an 11lb salmon caught on fly from Red Roof.

On Wednesday, Harry Lloyd registered a 3lb grilse caught on fly from the Sea Pools and Ray Bentham accounted for a 13lb salmon caught on fly from the Eel Weir.

Virgilio Alonso
Virgilio Alonso

On Sunday, Virgilio Alonso recorded 2 salmon weighing 6 & 8lb caught. From the 7th to the 14th, a visiting French party reported 4 salmon caught weighing from 2 to 8lb, 3 on fly and 1 on worm from various pools.

At the time of writing, the heavy rain of Tuesday has caused the river to rise to 0.34m but a bigger rise would be very desirable.

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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

For info/Guides/boat hire on Lough Melvin contact Sean Maguire’s Tackle Shop, Main Street, Garrison.Tel. (048) 686 58194

Lough Melvin, Rossinver Fishery: For info/Guides/boat hire/bookings etc. contact Sean Carty. Tel: 083 1197428.

Belgian anglers enjoy predator fishing in Longford

By
myleskelly
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Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge in Longford reports on the piking in the Longford area…

Stefaan Soete from Belgium with one of his nice Pike.
Stefaan Soete from Belgium with one of his nice Pike.

Stefaan, Tom and Wim from Belgium were over for a week’s Pike fishing and decided to use Melview Fishing Lodge as their base, using both soft and hard baits the week started slow for them due to the weather and the week started with mainly smaller Pike and some good Perch. As the week went on things began to improved for them. This was the guys first visit to Ireland and they had a great time. The guys were just up beat all the time and we had some good laughs during their say. Thanks guys and hope to see you again soon.

All Fish returned Unharmed.

#CPRsavesfish

Kevin Lyons
Melview Lodge

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Kevin Lyons
Melview Lodge
Drumlish Road,Clonrollagh, Longford, Co. Longford
Tel:+353(0)43-33-45061 Mobile:+353(0)87-268-7441
E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.melviewlodge.com

Kevin has over 30 years experience of fishing in Ireland and is happy to offer a guided tour on your arrival, and to advise where the on-form waters in the area are. We can arrange your bait order so it’s here when you arrive. Melview offers free use of 17ft lake boats with engines to our guests (pay fuel only) and Kevin is happy to assist with any pre-baiting requests. Maps and other information regarding fishing are also available.

No rain for the Moy but fishing improves

By
myleskelly
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Bill Thornton reports from Ballina…

Although rain was forecast mid-week it did not materialise but angling conditions did improve with a drop in temperature and plenty of cloud cover. Just over 300 salmon were caught with all fisheries across the system reporting good catches.

Rudolf Schweissthal
Rudolf Schweissthal
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

In Ballina the Moy Fishery had 49 salmon with the Ridge Pool, Weir Pool and Cathedral beat fishing well. Among the lucky anglers this week were,

  • Rudolf Schweissthal, Germany, 8.75 lbs on fly- Ridge Pool,
  • Tony Bennett, UK, 4 lbs on fly – Ridge Pool, his first salmon,
  • John McKinley, Athlone, 5 salmon, 2 released on fly – Weir Pool,
  • Eddie Manthorpe, NI, 4.5 lbs on fly released – Cathedral beat,
  • Garrett Ruigrok,Dublin, 3 salmon on fly, all released – Cathedral beat.
Wayne Carberry Coolcronan
Wayne Carberry ,Coolcronan
Martin Cap, Foxford Fishery
Martin Cap, Foxford Fishery

Upstream Michael English UK. 6.8 lbs on Bubble and fly – Mount Falcon Fishery, Wayne Carberry Longford 4+lbs on prawn – Coolcronan Fishery. Gilies Boudier France 13 lbs on spinner – Armstrongs Fishery, Martin Cap Party of 5 from the UK, 14 salmon for week, best 11 lbs – Foxford Fishery .  Bernhard Schadner Germany 1 fish, his first Moy salmon – Foxford Salmon Anglers. Joel Guillou France 7.5 lbs on spinner – Cloongee Fishery.

Bernhard Schadner Foxford Salmon anglers
Bernhard Schadner, Foxford Salmon anglers
Joel Guillou Cloongee
Joel Guillou, Cloongee

With conditions continuing much the same as last week and a good show of fish moving through Ballina, prospects are good for the week.

How’s the river doing? Check the Ridge Pool Webcam

For more about the River Moy and its fisheries, including prices and maps see – https://www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/northwest/river_moy_system.htm

Owenmore getting sea trout in the lakes

By
myleskelly
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Frank Maunsell from the Owenmore Fishery reports:

19 June: We have had a heavy mist in the area for the past few days which has resulted in beautiful fishing water. The seatrout are reaching the lakes. They have been caught with sealice on them. There was too much wind to fish the White Lake but the other lake Finnertys would be more shaded and fished reasonable well.

It was difficult fishing in the river yesterday with the strong wind and there were a lot of flies lost. Couple of Seatrout caught in the river and a grisle. More rain today and this will be the end of it for a while.

Frank Maunsell
Owenmore Fishery

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There are approximately five miles of fly fishing along the main part of the Owenmore River in Kerry, with 33 named pools and an additional 180 acres of lake fishing in this Kerry beauty spot. The salmon, grilse and sea trout begin to run in April. The runs continue through spring and summer into early October.

Telephone: 066 7139408 Mobile: 087 9476309

Email: [email protected]
Web: www.owenmorefishery.ie

Great fishing reported from Courtmacsherry, loads of large ling

By
myleskelly
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Mark Gannon reports from Courtmacsherry…

The sea Angling off Courtmacsherry in the last while has been great. From the Self-drives our anglers are getting pollack, bass, flounder, rays and dabs.

Courtmacsherry skate
Courtmacsherry skate

The charter boats are getting conger, skate, bullhuss, ling, pollack, coalfish and cod in the bay and the most species  in a day was 21.

ling
Some great ling to 24lb were caught offshore

Offshore fishing on the wrecks has also been good. Our best day was a haul of 60 ling. Heaviest a fine fish caught by Tom van Lohuizen  weighing in at 24lbs, I’ve no doubt an Irish Specimen when caught. We had other fish of 20, 18 and 16lbs also landed.

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Conger

Mark Gannon
Courtmacsherry Angling

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Courtmacsherry Sea Angling Centre 

Courtmacsherry Sea Angling Centre is one of Irelands Premier Angling Centres based in the picturesque village of Courtmacsherry located only 30miles 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 selfdrive 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 selfdrive angler for inshore fishing or the wreck enthusiast.
Web: www.courtmacsherryangling.ie
Email: [email protected] 
Telephone: +353 (0)23 8846427 or +353 (0)86 8250905

Charter boat anglers enjoy great fishing from Portrush

By
myleskelly
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Evan McGovern was in touch to say he had an outstanding weekend of fishing last week onboard Predator Charters out of Portrush.  Evan and his pals had 30+ specimen spurdogs, 2 specimen skate, a couple of tope close to specimen and plenty more fish.  It’s hard to beat a day on the water when the  weather is great and the fishing is constant.

skate spurdog tope

Tourist anglers enjoy bass and shad fishing

By
myleskelly
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Emma Stanley reports on some successful fishing trips to Tipp and Waterford… 

Twaite Shad:

The run of twaite shad is coming to an end for this year and 2 Anglers from Dublin had a good days fishing along the old bridge area of Carrick on Suir during late May.  The numbers in the area are reported to be making a recovery and Anglers spoken to were happy with the numbers caught.

Sea Bass:

2 Bass Anglers from Dublin were encountered recently on Kilfarrasy Beach.  The anglers explained how they came down to fish the south coast for several days.  Both men were happy with the fishing in the area and had recently fished the Cork coast also stating that there was plenty of bass fishing along the south Coast of the country and that they had not been disappointed with their fishing trip.

Bio Security: As always, we would kindly like to remind all who use Irelands watercourses to please use appropriate biosecurity measures for themselves so to help prevent the spread of invasive species in and out of the water.

Water Safety: The Carrick staff would kindly like to remind all about the importance of using Life Jackets in and around water as they really do save lives. Adequate Flotation devices should always be worn and it especially sets a template regards water safety where younger Anglers are present.

 “Take only memories, leave only footprints”. The Carrick staff would like to ask all who are using the water courses in the area to be mindful of littering and to please use bins provided or take home their rubbish.

Good tench, bream and hybrids reported from Templemore

By
myleskelly
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Emma Stanley reports on coarse fishing around Tipperary…

Templemore lake had a very successful Coarse fish competition on the 10th of June last with very good-sized fish being caught.  Largest Tench caught was 7lbs, Bream 8.5lbs and Hybrids 3/4lbs.  There are some carp in the lake also but there have been no reports to date of any catches during the competition.

Noel Stapleton From Templemore Anglers during the Templemore Coarse fishing competition (N Stapleton 2018)
Noel Stapleton From Templemore Anglers during the Templemore Coarse fishing competition (N Stapleton 2018)

Upcoming competition:

A Pike competition is to be held on Sunday 29th June next on Templemore lake. The competition is being run by Templemore and District Angling Club

Bio Security: As always, we would kindly like to remind all who use Irelands watercourses to please use appropriate biosecurity measures for themselves so to help prevent the spread of invasive species in and out of the water.

Water Safety: The Carrick staff would kindly like to remind all about the importance of using Life Jackets in and around water as they really do save lives. Adequate Flotation devices should always be worn and it especially sets a template regards water safety where younger Anglers are present.

 “Take only memories, leave only footprints”. The Carrick staff would like to ask all who are using the water courses in the area to be mindful of littering and to please use bins provided or take home their rubbish.

Good trout fishing on Suir in upper reaches

By
myleskelly
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Emma Stanley from our Carrick on Suir base reports on the local trout fishing…

A member of Thurles Suir and Drish District Anglers reported plenty of large trout on the Upper reaches of the Suir and its tributaries. Anglers reported catches of 2lbs to 4.5lbs.

Trout have been slow to get going along the Carrick on Suir area even with hatches of mayfly & black knat on the water. Anglers state however, that conditions for trout fishing remain good in the Carrick region.

Bio Security: As always, we would kindly like to remind all who use Irelands watercourses to please use appropriate biosecurity measures for themselves so to help prevent the spread of invasive species in and out of the water.

Water Safety: The Carrick staff would kindly like to remind all about the importance of using Life Jackets in and around water as they really do save lives. Adequate Flotation devices should always be worn and it especially sets a template regards water safety where younger Anglers are present.

 “Take only memories, leave only footprints”. The Carrick staff would like to ask all who are using the water courses in the area to be mindful of littering and to please use bins provided or take home their rubbish.

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