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Lene fishing well

By
Kevin Crowley
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Mick Flanagan reports on fishing in the Midlands lakes.

Trout on dry olives

Once again I had a few enjoyable days on Lene with pal Marty Smith, and the trout really took a shine to our dry flies, and also we fished wets with some success. Quite a few anglers were on Lene over the Bank Holiday, and many were buzzer fishing in calm conditions. It’s an art in its own, and really I can’t get a handle on it. Anyway I had a chat with Eugene Fagan from Dublin, and he reckons once I get hooked on it, there is no looking back. Eugene feature in our 60th Anniversary of Lene some weeks, and is originally a Multyfarnham lad.

Marty Smith landing a nice rainbow from Lough Lene
Marty Smith landing a nice rainbow from Lough Lene

 

A Lough Lene bow that took a dry olive
A Lough Lene bow that took a dry olive

Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling

Make a booking

Midlands Angling  provide a top class Guiding service covering many of the top coarse and game waters across the Midlands. Visiting fly anglers have landed some fine trout while out with Midland Angling Guides, pike anglers also recorded some net bursting catches including many pike over 20lbs. Top waters include Lough Ree, Ennell, Owel, Lene, Mount Dalton, and Glore Lake just to mention a few.
Michael Flanagan
Midland Angling
Pike and Trout angling guide.

Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348969 or +353 (0)87 2797270
Fax: +353 (0)44 9342781
Email: [email protected] Web: www.midlandangling.com

Erriff off the mark with first salmon

By
Kevin Crowley
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Padraic O’Malley reports that the first salmon has been landed on the Erriff for 2018. The fish was a wild fish weighing 9.5lbs, and was caught by Alan Coles from Essex in England.

 

The sparkling silver fish was caught in the Garden Pool and took a small Cascade fly. Alan was fishing with Will Wright, also from Essex and both are regular visitors to the Erriff.

 

 

Alan Coles with the first spring salmon from the Erriff
Alan Coles with the first spring salmon from the Erriff

 

Padraic reports good water levels at the moment, with the gauge showing 1.1, ideal conditions for flyfishing, and fresh fish running the river too.

 

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] 

Olive hatches on L. Arrow produce a number of nice trout

By
Markus Muller
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Trout fishing on Lough Arrow kicked off a couple of weeks ago with anglers reporting hatches of Duckfly.  Warm spells during the day saw some sporadic hatches of Olives but no mayfly hatches have been reported so far. However, some of the anglers who ventured out and put enough time into it were rewarded with nice catches. Amongst the few were John Murray who had 4 fish up to 2.5 lbs., Ken Murray with 4 fish up to 2 lbs. and Gerry Kelly with 2 trout up to 1.5 lbs.

International group enjoys day out on Killala Bay

By
Markus Muller
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Located on the western extremity of the continental shelf the island of Ireland has some of the most lightly fished rivers and lakes in Europe.

Donal Kennedy reports

On Friday 4th May an international party of anglers from Ireland, Australia and Italy set out from Killala Harbour for a day’s fishing out in Killala Bay. The weather was OK with moderate winds from the south. The drift was slow and steady allowing the skipper to drift over some hard ground and it was not long before the anglers started catching fish. The catch consisted mainly of pollack and coalfish. As the day progressed the pattern was the same with some fine fish being caught. To top off the day plenty of fine big mackerel were caught. The party returned safely to harbour well pleased with their day out.

 

The international anglers enjoyed their day on Killala Bay

 

To book a day’s fishing in Killala Bay contact Donal Kennedy on +353 (0)086 8174509 or visit www.dkennedyangling.ie.

West Cork rivers producing salmon

By
Kevin Crowley
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Eileen Carroll reports on salmon fishing from West Cork and Kerry for the week ending Sunday 6th of May 2018

 

River Bandon

There were 10 salmon reported last week on the Bandon.  Fishing has slowed at the moment but there is rain forecasted on Wednesday and Friday so that should improve fishing again.

 

River Lee

No Report.

 

Killarney Lakes and River Laune

No Report.

 

Killarney Flesk

No Report.

 

River Ilen

10 salmon landed for the week, best was 12lbs landed by a club angler on worms.

 

Coarse fishing improves in Cavan area

By
Kevin Crowley
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Alice Murtagh reports on coarse fishing in the Cavan area.

 

Fishing in the Cavan area has improved in the last few weeks with good Tench showing at some venues. Late night fishing on Sally Lake is giving good bags of fish while Flynn’s Pass is reported to be fishing well. Plenty of small Roach are being caught on the river at Belturbet. There are reports of good catches of Tench in the Belturbet and Killeshandra area  also.

 

The number of Pike anglers are up on previous years with reports of good Pike being caught. A 33lbs pike was reported in the Cootehill area in recent days.

 

A Junior Pike angling competition took place on Lough Gowna recently with 9 boats. 19 children took part. Heaviest fish on the day was caught by Oisin Reilly weighing 12lb 10ozs. The winners on the day were Ben Brady and Oisin Reilly. The Bernard Kiernan Memorial competition also took place on Lough Gowna in recent weeks. 14 boats entered the competition. The winner on the day was Mick Dalton with David Roache coming in second. David Roache caught the heaviest fish at 15lb 9ozs.

 

Junior competitors at Lough Gowna
Junior competitors at Lough Gowna

Angling suspended at The Lough and at Belvelly Lake in Cork

By
Paul O'Mahony
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Inland Fisheries Ireland is currently investigating the cause of multiple carp mortalities at The Lough in Cork city and at Belvelly Lake, Cobh, Co. Cork.

As of today, some 450 carp have been removed from The Lough and over 20 from Belvelly, with live samples brought to the Irish Marine Institute for analysis.

While the samples from The Lough showed a heavy presence of trichodiniasis, the primary cause of death has not yet been confirmed.

Angling has been suspended at both locations until further notice.

There are no reports of fish health issues at any other carp fishery.

A carp in The Lough

As a precautionary measure, IFI has temporarily suspended angling at nearby Inniscarra and Carrigadrohid coarse fisheries in order to reduce the risk of cross contamination. This will be reviewed once the cause of the mortalities is known.

We would remind all anglers and, in particular, those who may have fished the affected waters in the last number of weeks, to follow appropriate disinfection procedures for all gear and to comply with local notices and bio-security measures. We thank them for their co-operation.

There are no reports of fish health issues at any other carp fishery,

Updates on this and the status of the angling suspension will be available at www.fisheriesireland.ie and https://fishinginireland.info/ and Facebook.

Difficult fishing at Ballinamona for Menapia anglers

By
myleskelly
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Menapia Sea Anglers report on their last two competitions…

Flat calm conditions and small tides made for hard fishing for Menapia members in there latest club masters competition. Ballinamona was the chosen venue and fishing was patchy with an abundance of green crab stripping baits rapid, however hard work and quick turning casts resulted in everyone catching.

Flounder
Flounder

Winner on the night with a reasonable bag of 14 fish was new member James Duffy proving himself to be a tidy angler and one to watch this year. Second place went to veteran member Johnny Denby with 10 fish which included some schoolie Bass. Johnny was closely followed in third place by Kieran Dempsey on 9 fish which included several flounder over the 30cm mark.

Longest fish went to Brendan Wall with a 35cm Bass.

Bass
Bass

18 anglers fished which is the average attendance making it a strong and competitive club ideal for anyone wanting to learn more or just get out for fun PM the page if interested in joining.

Join the Club…

The Menapia Sea Angling Club was founded in 2000, by a small handful of Wexford anglers. It was felt that to retain and grow interest & membership of a successful club, it would have to engage a wide variety shore-angling, that would cater for all. For more information see

https://www.facebook.com/Menapia-Sea-Angling-Club-Wexford-191205604423165/

Decent charter boat fishing for anglers in Kerry

By
myleskelly
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Siegy Grabher, skipper of Sioux out of Valentia Island reports on his recent trips…

pollack
Senior angler Roland (78) was very busy today catching nice pollack

07 May: Grey in grey today, you could think that it is November right now, but the fishing was good!

fishing

05 May: First time in Ireland! An angling group from Fussach in Austria, the skipper’s hometown, aboard Sioux today.

04 May: A successful angling week with a lot of pollack and coaley, and also ling, ballan and cuckoo wrasse, pouting, sandeel and mackerel. More photos on http://www.valentiafishing.com/photo-gallery.html

ling
A first ling for Christoph

30 April: Another beautiful angling trip around the #Skelligs and #PuffinIsland!

Go fishing…

Sioux

The charter boat “Sioux” is an Offshore 105 equipped with a 300 hp Ford Sabre Turbo Diesel engine. The season for most species is from April to the end of September; cod, pollock, ling, coalfish, whiting, haddock, mackerel, garfish, pouting, plaice, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, grey and red gurnard, seabass, mullet, skate, ray-thornback, conger eel, dogfish, bullhuss and blueshark (July – September)

35′ Offshore 105. 300 HP Ford
Valentia Island, Co. Kerry.
Tel: +353 66 9476420 or +353 87 6871267
Email: [email protected] Website: www.valentiafishing.com

Some good fish about Leitrim for Sheemore Anglers

By
myleskelly
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Gary Chandler reports on Sheemore Angling Association’s recent outings…

02 May: Not a great turnout to day as a lot of the regulars were busy today but a few turned up so here are the results of the Wednesday match on Lough Allen.

Robert Howgate. 20lb 04oz
Dave ddy. 15lb 14oz
Ray Carpenter. 14lb 11oz

So a lot of us missed not a bad day but we also missed the rain so it’s not all bad. summers coming at last.

06 May: Well Sumners here at last but nobody told the fish a few of us found a few but the sunnier it got this afternoon the more they wandered off .here are the results of today’s match on Lough Allen.

  • Malcom Singleton. 7lb 15oz
  • Mary Tigwell. 7lb 11oz
  • Gary Chandler. 7lb 03oz
  • Joe van der spek. 5lb 01oz
  • Pat Tigwell. 2lb 02oz
  • Dave oddy. DNW
  • Ray Carpenter. DNW
  • Robert Howgate. DNW

On a good note, for Malcom anyway, he won the match and walked away with the golden peg so a productive day for him so well done Malcom.

09 May: Well summer didn’t last long but still a few fish feeding at Drumshambo Lock today. The results were..

  1. Robert Howgate. 13lb 08oz
  2. Joe van der Spek. 12lb 15oz
  3. Gary Chandler. 10lb 08oz

Some good fish about but not enough of them but enough to make an enjoyable day and not to much rain.

Gary Chandler
Sheemore Angling Association

Go fishing – join the club…

If you want to find out more about joining the club or getting involved in their competitions contact Sheemore Angling Association here http://www.ncffi.ie/about-us/ncffi-affiliated-clubs/ or follow their facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/865998406774978/?fref=ts

Sheemore Angling Association 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

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