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Lough Bracken is open for business!

By
Kevin Crowley
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Following a successful tender bid, Shay O’Donnell of the newly formed Lough Bracken & District Anglers met with Josie Mahon, Inspector, IFI to discuss this new project on 27/4/18.

For those unfamiliar with this water it is located just outside Drumconrath village and holds good stocks of coarse fish and pike.  Lough Bracken & District Anglers is the latest such initiative in the North East in which anglers have formed a group with a view to managing a particular fishery.

“The goal of our group is to develop and protect this fishery for everyone to enjoy”. Because there are established state fishing rights attached to this water it will assist us in our efforts to manage the lake. We will be working closely in this regard with neighboring clubs such as Meath Hill and Mentrim and of course I.F.I.” said Shay.

For 2018, a nominal fee of 10 euro will be charged for membership (5 euro OAP and juniors), day permits will also be available from Drumconrath Post Office.

Signage outlining the, by now standard, fishery rules will be in place within the next two weeks. We would like to invite all prospective club members to contact Kieran Dowling at 086 2231774.

 

Shay O'Donnell of Lough Bracken & District Anglers, with Josie Mahon of IFI at the lake
Shay O’Donnell of Lough Bracken & District Anglers, with Josie Mahon of IFI at the lake

Perseverance pays off for bass anglers in Wexford

By
Kevin Crowley
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Guide Sean Jordan of Bass fishing Wexford reports on the latest bass fishnig along the Wexford coast.

Conditions have been tough on the Wexford coast of late with winds going in all directions almost hourly making it very tough for fly anglers, I’ve met sea trout and bass, but it’s very tough…

Top fly fisher, & Guinness fanatic Doug Bomeisler, Florida, US  joined me for a few days hoping to meet his first European Bass, he was  very keen to try his own tied flies, one of which connected him with a hard fighting Mullet.

 

Doug Bomeisler with a nice Wexford mullet on the fly
Doug Bomeisler with a nice Wexford mullet on the fly

 

We left that area and settled into another likely spot on an evening flooding tide, fly of choice was my Spring favorite for bass a flatwing sloopy droopy in yellow, after a while a shoal of small sandeel arrived, and it wasn’t long before Doug had his first bass, a couple of quick pic’s, & it was on its way.

 

Doug Bomeisler with his first European bass on the fly
Doug Bomeisler with his first European bass on the fly

 

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Bass Fishing Wexford
 Address: Sean Jordan, Belgrove Cross, Duncormick, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 (0)51 563132 or +353 (0)86 2611436
Email: [email protected] Web: www.bassfishingwexford.com

Nymphing best at Mount Juliet on the Nore

By
Kevin Crowley
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Dan O’Neill at the Mount Juliet Estate reports on the trout fishing on the Nore…

We had 3 anglers on the fishery on Saturday. Water level was good reading 89. ishing nymphs, the 3 rods landed 9 trout as well as a few salmon smolts, all quickly released again. Dan also fished the Pebble Beach Pool himself on Wednesday and had 5 trout, ranging from 0.5-0.75lbs, all on nymph patterns

With the smolts running its important do everything you can to get these guys off to sea in good shape, so fishing barbless makes sense until the run is over. It important to make sure you wet hour hands if you have handle them during the release as they are delicate little fellows and you want to avoid any scale loss.

Dan O’Neill
Mount Juliet Estate.

Mount Juliet
the Jinks Bar

Go fishing…

Mount Juliet House is set on a large estate, which offers private fishing on 2.5 miles of the middle to lower reaches of the River Nore. Mount Juliet Estate offers fishing of the highest quality, just a short stroll away from the Manor House. There is a fishing room on site in the Manor House for your convenience i.e. for storage and drying of fishing equipment. Mount Juliet Estate can also provide the necessary equipment on site if needed.

https://www.mountjuliet.ie/fishing-on-the-estate.html

More spring fish on the Feale as water level suits fly anglers

By
Kevin Crowley
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Paddy Halpin reports on salmon fishing from the Feale.

There were a few more fish landed this week on the Feale, with most on the fly as water levels suited flyfishing. We had a small fresh in the river on Wednesday, but not enough to bring out many anglers. At the moment the levels are dropping back again and it’s still very cold.

 

Shane Loughnane with his fish
Shane Loughnane with his fish

 

A few of the lucky anglers for the week: young Shane Loughnane of Listowel had his first of the season, a fish of 8lbs on a fly that he tied himself. Terry McCormac had his first of the season, a nice fish as well on he fly; Noel Kelly also got his season off to a great as well in the past week with a great fish of 12lbs, also on the flt. Also in luck for the week was Derry Buckley, who had a great fish as well on fly.

 

A nice fish to start the season for Terry McCormac
A nice fish to start the season for Terry McCormac

 

Water temperature at the moment is still pretty cold, under 10 degrees. Hopefully the bit of warmer weather forecast will see that improve.

 

Good Spurdog and Pollack Fishing in Galway Bay

By
Kevin Crowley
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John Fleming from Blue Shark Angling Galway, skipper of the Brazen Hussy II reports that spur dogs to over specimen size continue to show up in Galway Bay. Al Marsden, a popular fishing fanatic from Northern Ireland, joined a small crew on Sunday and had his first specimen spur, a lovely 105cm fish. Alan Kelly, another top angler, had a nice fish just under specimen size.

 

Al Marsden's Specimen 105cm Spurdog
Al Marsden’s Specimen 105cm Spurdog

 

Alan Kelly with a nice Galway Bay Spur
Alan Kelly with a nice Galway Bay Spur

 

John has also had good pollack fishing lately, with fish starting to feed well again and show interest in lures after a recent lull. Klaas and his crew from Holland enjoyed a good day afloat, catching plenty of pollack, some nice ballan wrasse, and the first mackerel of the season made an appearance too. Water temperatures are increasing, and the quality and variety of fishing will be improving every week from now on.

 

 

Go fishing…

A regular day is between 9am- 6pm from either Rosaveel, Spiddal or Galway depending on species being sought after. Fishing on the inshore reefs for pollock, cod, ling, wrasse, conger eel and mackerel can be reached in 10 minutes from departure, while our offshore reef marks are within 45 minutes of departure.

Our ground fishing for tope, spurdog, ray, bullhuss, turbot, plaice and the giant common skate can all be reached within the hour which ensures the most amount of time is spent fishing.

The shark season usually starts at the end of June and runs into late October, this is the ultimate angling addrenaline rush with these hard fighting blue and porbeagle sharks all being tagged and release safely.
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Address: Baile an tsagairt, Spiddal, Co. Galway.
Telephone: +353 (0)87 7571320
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Blue Shark Angling Galway,
Phone John Fleming : +353 (0)87 7571320

Newbridge Pike Anglers enjoy good sport

By
Kevin Crowley
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Newbridge District Pike Anglers reported on a competition last weekend.

 

 

We had 18 seniors and 3 juniors fish the Murphy cup last weekend on a river – water levels were still very high but clear making it difficult for some lads to cover water. Fishing was still very good with some stunning fish caught up to 19.02. In total we had 53 including 4 doubles also a lot of the jacks were between 6 and 9 lbs so good fighting fish.

 

 

Firstly we would like to say a big thank you to David Mc Bride of Southside Angling for looking after us with prizes for our juniors section, as always Dave is good with making sure our juniors are well looked after so thank you! We would also like to thank Thomas Murphy for adding to the prize fund for the top 3 lads

 

 


Full results are as follows
Winner of the Murphy cup 2018
1st Tommy Winder 19.02 hf 27.00 bag
2nd Simon Langan 44.14 bag
3rd Dave Murphy 39.00 bag

Best setter on the day was Alan Mcevoy 28.10 bag

Juniors section results are as follows
1st Dylan Murphy 4.11
2nd Brendan Jervis jnr
3rd Killian Carney

RAFFLE 3× 20 euro Southside angling vouchers winners are
Brendan Jervis
Mark Horgan
Thomas murphy

Mini league results for 1st quarter
Winners are as follows
1st Ciaran Sullvan
2nd Rod Coan

Collie Dog just the job for Seamus at Kylemore

By
Kevin Crowley
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Nigel Rush reports another spring salmon from the Kylemore Abbey Fishery on the Dawros River in Connemara. Seamus O’Neil was the lucky angler, landing a 9.25lbs fresh silver springer  in Lavelles Pool on the Lower River beat. The fish took a Collie Dog fly. This was the 5th fish of the season; last year there were only 4 caught to the end of May.

 

Seamus O'Neil with his 9.25lbs Kylemore salmon
Seamus O’Neil with his 9.25lbs Kylemore salmon

 

Go fishing…

To book fishing at Kylemore Abbey, contact Nigel  on 087 9580702, and for latest news check the website at www.kylemorefishery.ie

Hidden away between the mountains of Connemara and the Atlantic ocean, the Kylemore Abbey fishery is a wild and beautiful place. Kylemore Abbey Fishery consists of the Kylemore Middle and Castle lakes, as well as part of the Upper Lough, with the five and a half kilometres of the Dawros river which enters the sea in Ballynakill bay.  Salmon and sea-trout run for a good proportion of the year to provide first class fishing on uncrowded waters.

The open panoramas of the lakes contrast with the intimacy of the river to give a variety of fishing combined with stunning scenery unrivalled anywhere in Ireland. Although offering an excellent chance of a fish for most of the season, you will find the real meaning of “a fish is a bonus” at Kylemore.

For info on rates and beat maps see: www.kylemorefishery.ie/rates

 

Continuing good spring fishing on the Drowes as grilse make an appearance

By
Kevin Crowley
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Lindsey Clarke reports that there were fair water levels over the week. The gauge read 0.23m on Monday and rose to 0.55m on Friday. By the end of the week the gauge was once again reading 0.53m. The river fished well over the week and some 24 salmon were caught consisting of double figure fish and grilse. Given here are some of the catches. On Tuesday, Julian Ciconte recorded a 12lb salmon caught on a Flying ‘C’ lure from the Grazings having just hooked and lost a fish estimated at 18lb plus!

 

Julian Ciconte with his fine 12lbs fish
Julian Ciconte with his fine 12lbs fish

 

On Wednesday, Stephen Scott reported a 10½lb salmon caught on prawn from the Washstones. Jonny McBrearty logged a 6lb salmon caught on a fly from the Mill Pool and Chris McDaid reported 3 salmon weighing 8, 8 & 10lb caught on a Mepps spinner from Four Master’s to Lennox’s Bridge with 2 of these being released again.

 

Stephen Scott with a lovely 10.5lbs salmon
Stephen Scott with a lovely 10.5lbs salmon

 

On Thursday, Eddie Roulston recorded a 4½lb grilse caught on a Flying ‘C’ lure from Lennox’s. Darryl Kennedy reported a 7½lb salmon caught on prawn from The Meadow. Michael Joyce logged a 5lb grilse caught on a Flying ‘C’ lure from Briney’s and Chris McDaid caught and released a 5lb grilse on a Flying ‘C’ lure from Spa Well.

 

Eddie Roulston with an early running grilse
Eddie Roulston with an early running grilse

 

On Saturday, Paul Cardy recorded an 8lb salmon caught on a fly from the Mill Pool. On Sunday, Michael McEvoy reported 2 salmon weighing 8 & 10lb caught on prawn from the Mill Pool with one of these being released again.

 

Jonny McBrearty with his 6lb fish
Jonny McBrearty with his 6lb fish

 

There have been decent rain showers this week so far so water levels should remain good as do prospects for the coming week J

 

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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.

 

West Cork Salmon Reports

By
Kevin Crowley
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WEEKENDING SUNDAY 29TH OF APRIL 2018

 

RIVER BANDON

There was a pick-up in salmon fishing on the Bandon last week, there were 13 salmon landed and a few more lost. The best of these was 12lbs and was caught on the fly.

The fish were well spread out through the system, there were fish caught in Innishannon, Bandon club waters, Kilcoleman and Enniskeane. The river is high and clear at the moment and there is heavy rain due on Tuesday so prospects are good for the week ahead.

 

RIVER LEE

8 salmon landed for the week on club waters, best fish was 12lbs landed on a fly.  Stocks are being heavily depleted by two seals in the upper river.

 

KILLARNEY LAKES AND RIVER LAUNE

No Report.

 

KILLARNEY FLESK

1 salmon landed on worms on the Killarney Flesk River by a Tralee angler weighing 10.5lbs.

 

RIVER ILEN

3 salmon landed, best was 16lbs landed by a syndicate angler on a Flying C.

Mixed reports from Mask with buzzer and olive hatches providing some sport

By
Kevin Crowley
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Ronan Cusack reports from Lough Mask on recent fishing.

There has been lots of secrecy and tight lipped anglers around the shores of Lough Mask over the past week as the ITFFA Spring International approaches. This year’s International will be held on Lough Mask under the host club, Ballinrobe & District Anglers. Top Irish rods have been practising hard over the past few weeks, working on a strategy for the big day on May 11th.

Reports from the lake this week have been mixed as the weather changes on a daily basis. A group of UK and Northern Ireland anglers fished from Hall’s Angling Centre over the weekend and they had mixed success. On the calmer days nymphs and buzzer were working and produced some good fish up to 3.5lbs. Wet-flies pulled on intermediate lines were the preferred method when the wind was up.

Local anglers Sean McAvoy and Declan Murphy fished for a day earlier this week and Sean landed a magnificent trout of just over 5lbs on wets. John Munroe and Joe Fitzharris spent a day on buzzers yesterday in difficult conditions and finished with 2 (best fish 2lbs). Visiting anglers from Wales, Nick and Andrew had three days on Mask this week and they had 11 fish over the legal limit on a combination of dries and buzzer (2 fish over 4lbs, all returned) The lads reported some fantastic sport using dry olives on light tackle.

Fly hatches this week have been mainly buzzer and olives with the very odd mayfly making an appearance.

The outlook for the remainder of the week is less rain and a significant improvement in air temperatures, so the best is yet to come.

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