Donal Kennedy, chart boat skipper on Killala Bay, reports that on Sunday 25th June 2017 a party of anglers from Ballina, Foxford and Crossmolina Co. Mayo set out from Killala Harbour for a day’s fishing in the bay. The conditions were far from ideal with moderate to fresh winds from WNW and a 2 meter swell. Conditions were to settle down for a couple hours and veer NW later in the day. This did not deter these keen anglers.
After a slow start the fishing improved
The first drift produced mackerel. The skipper drifted over several marks, mainly rocky ground, and as time moved on some fine fish were landed with many more returned alive. The catch included pollack up the double figures, ling, cod, pouting, tub gurnard, grey gurnard , coalfish, poor cod and lesser spotted dogfish.
Everyone went home happy.
All in all a good days fishing . The party returned safely to harbour well pleased with their days fishing.
Go fishing
To book a day’s fishing in Killala Bay contact Donal Kennedy on +353 (0)086 8174509 or visit www.dkennedyangling.ie.
Enda O'Connell with 2 of his ranched salmon caught on the 23rd June weighing 7.45lbs and 6lbs.
Osgur Grieve reports that 18 salmon were caught during the week 21st – 27th June on the River Erriff…
On the afternoon of Wednesday 21st David Dugdale (UK) landed a fresh ranched grilse of 4.36lbs. His fish took a cascade in the sea pool. Selby Knox (UK) was into action on the 22nd releasing a wild grilse of 4.5lbs. from the falls pool, his fish took a sunray shadow stripped across the surface.
Enda O’Connell with 2 of his ranched salmon caught on the 23rd June weighing 7.45lbs and 6lbs.
The clean flood on the 23rd brought the river up nicely. Regular visitor Enda O’Connell hit it just right and managed to catch 4 for his day. They consisted of 3 ranched of 7.45lbs., 6lbs., 3.9lbs. and 1 wild of 3.5lbs.(released). These fish came from the falls and middle garden pools using a Cascade. Interestingly Enda caught all of these fish within the space of 1 hour! In the afternoon it was Selby Knox’s turn releasing a wild grilse of 3lbs. from the middle garden pool on a Cascade. This brought Selby’s total for his week to 6 grilse. Michael Parry (UK) lost a similar sized grilse also in the middle garden. Michael and Selby also released 5 sea-trout of about 0.5 – 0.75lbs. In the evening visitor Peter Robinson (UK) had his first ever Erriff grilse of 2.9lbs.
Sunday the 25th saw visiting angler Kevin Cronin release a wild grilse from the Coronation pool on beat 8 and Julie McMullen (USA) released her 1st ever grilse of 3.5lbs in the middle garden pool.
Visiting angler Johannis Hipp had a nice ranched grilse of 4lbs. from the upper garden pool on a fly called ”papa’s revenge” on the 26th. That evening also produced a wild grilse of 4lbs. for Bernard de Suza using a yellow tailed fly in the middle garden pool which he released.
The rise in water levels on the 27th produced fish again for Johannis Hipp who had 2 wild grilse weighing, 4lbs. and 6lbs. both released.
Enda O’Connell also returned to fish on the 27th and had 3 more grilse of 5lbs., 4.5lbs., and 4.1lbs., 2 of which were wild and released. These grilse came to Cascade variants in the falls and upper garden pool.
At the time of writing the river is at 0.92m and with fresh fish coming in daily we look forward to the week ahead. Well done to all our anglers and especially to those who caught their 1st ever salmon!
There are beats available so if you wish to book fishing please call the fishery office on (095) 42382 alternatively you can email us at [email protected]
Sidney Garood with one of 7 bass caught at the end of the session!
It sometimes happens that fishing trips don’t work out as planned. For 5 years Englishman Sidney Garood was contemplating “hooking up” with Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan. His fishing buddy could not travel and for various reasons the trip kept getting postponed. In 2016 Sidney decided to book Richie for the following year for a week fishing every alternate day. Richie takes up the story…
Sidney Garood with a pollack
Prior to Sidney’s arrival the bass fishing had been reasonably good with German clients in particular. The Pollack on the fly had been very good as it always is in the summer months. The first 2 days of Sidney’s booking only produced one bass and the Pollack fishing on the fly was only mediocre. A plankton bloom made life even more difficult. If someone travels from abroad to fish with me I feel under additional pressure to produce results. This wasn’t panning out as planned.
Better pollack came eventually
Day 3 arrived and I was starting to worry that Sidney’s holiday might not work out as planned. Staying in the beautiful Elmville B&B in Cobh the Englishman was blissfully unaware of my plight. To add to my woes he told me he had a great fishing holiday with the bass guru John Quinlan in Kerry a few years ago. John’s professionalism and expertise is renowned amongst the angling fraternity, extra pressure !
Sidney Garood with one of 7 bass caught at the end of the session!
I was expecting to have to write a contrite report about a poor fishing experience but Lady Luck shone on us on the last day. The Pollack fishing on the fly was very good indeed with larger fish being landed. To top it all 7 bass were landed on lure at the end of the session in a very short period of time. Sidney was heading home happy. Phew ! ” .
‘Foster child of silence and slow time’ John Keats
Lough Sheelin, June 2017
People spend half their lives chasing shadows. But what would it feel like to actually catch one? This is a line which BMW are now using to advertise their new shadow edition 3 series but every time I hear it I can’t help thinking of Sheelin and its anglers chasing their own personal shadows in the form of this lake’s elusive and evasive trout. The weather threw up a heavy obstacle for most of this week, certainly for our day time anglers, as temperatures rose to a searing 26 degrees with no reprieve until Thursday. The lake was bathed in tropical sunshine and blue skies, there was an absence of boats along with a silence of trout movement. There are a hundred and one theories and speculations about trout fishing in bright sunny conditions but in general it can be difficult and the trout most definitely move further down the water column. Trout usually do not like hot sunny weather. The shallow waters heat up easily so oxygen is driven off. Fish move out into deeper water and go down to avoid bright sunlight. Trout of course do not stop feeding just because it’s hot so sinking lines with a lure or blob might work on those rare baking hot days. Contradicting the ‘going down deep’ theory was Cork angler Brian Reilly who caught a 2 ½ pounder using a buzzer pattern on a longish leader on a floating line in the blazing heat in Bog Bay on Tuesday last.
A beautifully marked trout for Azim (guided by Richie Johnston)
The hatches
Chocolate drop
Another reason for trout going down in the water on bright sunny days is that daphnia do the same and the trout are feeding around mid-lake on this water flea. The rule for the Daphnia feeders on cloudy days when they are feeding high in the water is to use a vibrant orange tying but for this week it was better to go deep with lime green.
A factor also to be considered in blue sky conditions is of course the angler’s own visibility.
A tropical Lough Sheelin
Early morning , from 5am to 10am some trout were rising to dry flies and buzzers in the top few feet by mid-day they were at least 3 -5 feet down requiring a different line and imitation. There was some caenis on the lake particularly in the very early hours but Lough Sheelin has never really featured as a caenis fishing lake, unlike Lough Corrib and no catches were reported by the caenis fishing advocates for this week at least. Fishing ‘the anglers curse’ requires very exact conditions mainly mirror calm or just a pin head of a ripple, very accurate casting and small imitations, it’s a tricky one to match all the dots with.
French angler Jean Louis Marchal (guided by Lough Sheelin Guiding services) with a beautiful 56 cm trout
The Catches
While the warm weather did make fishing more difficult during the day, once it got to 7pm things became easier particularly with the appearance of surface trout food – spent gnats, a huge variety of sedges as well as buzzers and the odd terrestrial.
Thursday threw to the weekend saw a different kind of weather, cooler with some rain and this made fishing abit more attractive. Day time fishing was all about fishing on the blind with patterns with Claret/Gold and Orange ruling the day light hours.
Richie Johnston’s 3 ½ lb trout caught on a Green – about Lough Sheelin’s Mayfly Richie commented ‘ where catches lacked numbers, some great fish were caught’
Lough Sheelin is indisputably a temperamental and unpredictable stretch of water but that in a way adds to its attractiveness, there is no set pattern, no rules, every day is different and whereas one drift might fish exceptionally well one day the next there could be not a stir of fish. We can’t put Lough Sheelin into a nice neat little box and say this is what works, this is where it works and this is when and how it works, this lake and its trout refuses to conform to human rationale and consistency which in turn poses continual challenges to its anglers. There is a lot of procrastination within the angling fraternity, we want it easy but Sheelin will never be easy, this is a lake that contains wild trout there is nothing tamed here. It seems, going on the sparse number of anglers who fished this week, that people want easy, ‘duffers fortnight’ attracts huge numbers of anglers to this stretch of water but then after the mayfly there is that predictable drop.
Lough Sheelin’s witching hour
The heaviest fish for this week was a 6 lb trout caught by Gene Brady, Cavan using a Golden Olive Bumble
Total number of trout recorded: 39
Selection of Catches
Ronan Clarke – 3 fish, heaviest at 3 ½ lbs on Spent Gnat patterns.
William Craig, Northern Ireland – 2 trout at 2 & 2 ½ lbs using Claret Stimulators.
Pat Brady, Cavan – 2 trout, heaviest at 3 lbs using Golden Olive Bumbles.
Jean Louis Marchal, France – 4 trout heaviest at 56cm fishing mayfly patterns.
Eamon Connors, Ardee – 4 trout heaviest at 3lbs on wets and spent gnat patterns.
George Malcom, Dublin – 1 trout at 3 ½ lbs on Claret Humpies.
Gary McKiernan (Lough Sheelin Guiding Services) – 1 trout at 2 ½ lbs on June 23rd on a Golden Dabbler.
Gene Brady, Cavan – 4 trout heaviest at 6lbs using Golden Olive Bumbles.
Richie Johnston, Dublin – 1 trout at 3½ lbs on a Green Mayfly.
David Kellett, Dublin – 5 trout for the week, heaviest at 4 lbs using Stimulators and Royal Wulffs.
Pat Bannon, Ballyjamesduff – 3 trout, heaviest at 2 ½ lbs fishing wets.
The flies
Jimmy Tyrrell’s Silver Sedges
Lough Sheelin fished well for this week, offering good fishing on the blind for anglers using Stimulators, Golden Olive Bumbles, Gorgeous George, Humpies, Hoppers, Mayfly patterns and Claret & Mallard. Saturday was an excellent fishing day, particularly in the morning which had good cloud cover, a nice wave and warmth and yet there were only a handful of anglers out enjoying it all. There was no insect surface activity so it was up to the angler to bring up the fish and our weekend anglers seemed to have no problems attracting the Sheelin fish up to the surface. As the day light slipped into twilight fishing with Buzzers, Spent Gnat patterns, Royal & Grey Wulffs and Murrough featured the most in catches.
This week, certainly during day time fishing the Stimulator came up trumps particularly in Orange and Claret as a top dropper. The Stimulator is a very good all-purpose searching pattern and with little or no day time surface activity this was a must. It is a remarkable ‘attractor’ fly that coaxes reluctant large trout to strike.
The Stimulator debate: –
“I invented that,” Jim Slattery says, “That was my tie”. Jim, who moved to West Yellowstone, is not usually accredited with being the original designer of the Stimulator fly fishing pattern. This honor normally goes to Randall Kaufmann, shop owner and American West Coast angler. Jim tells friends and customers that he originally tied this stonefly pattern when he lived in New Jersey back in 1980, to fish the Musconetcong River. It was based on the Sofa Pillow and originally called the Fluttering Stonefly but later changed to the Stimulator after a New York City punk-rock group. He tells clients that the fly was nearly named after his own punk rock band called Violator. As an attractor fly the Stimulator name is superb. It does what it says on the tin. It stimulates the trout’s interest into taking the fly. Jim’s original fly was a bit different to the Stimulator tied today. The shape, contrasting colors, materials used, length of thorax and abdomen were roughly the same. What was different was that the hair for the wing was not stacked. It was still great at catching fish, so much so that it came to the attention of Randell Kaufmann in California. He modified it, kept the same name and did a lot to expose this style of tying. It is affectionately known as the “Stim” or “Stimmie”. Jim Slattery owns Fireside Angler in the town of West Yellowstone.
The Claret Stimulator
The most successful flies this week were the wet Mayfly patterns in greens with mixes of brown and white mingled through, the French Partridge, the Goslings, Soft Hackle Mayfly Emergers, CDC Mayfly Emergers, the Wulffs (grey and royal), the Spent Gnat patterns (a predominance of black worked best) and the Sedges (sizes 12 -14) – Shipman’s Sedges, GRHE’s and suspenders, all in sizes 12 through to 16.. Other patterns catching fish were the Dabblers (Claret, Green, Gold and Silver), Bobs Bits in different colours and sizes to fish the surface film, Hackled Buzzer patterns to fish high in the water or on the drop, Pheasant Tail nymphs and Hare’s Ear for good surface film penetration. Humpies, Gorgeous George, Humpies, Klinkhammers, Stimulators (in orange and claret) and Bumbles (Golden and Cock Robin).
Go fishing…
Youth angling day
The Lough Sheelin Trout Protection Association will be hosting a Youth angling day in July. This popular event will include fly tying, fly casting and trout fishing followed by a Bar B Q. Casting instruction will be given by APGAI and participants will have the opportunity to catch fish and receive a small prize. For further details contact Thomas Lynch @ 087 9132033.
A catch & release policy is actively encouraged on the lake at all times
BYE-LAW 949 strictly prohibits:
The taking of any brown trout of less than 36 centimetres.
For a person to fish with more than 2 rods at any one time.
To fish with more than 4 rods at any one time when there is more than one person on board the boat concerned.
For a person to take more than 2 trout per day.
All trolling on the lake from March 1st to June 16th (inclusive).
To fish or to attempt to take or to fish for, fish of any kind other than during the period from March 1st to October 12th in any year.
Join the Club…
For anyone interested in joining Lough Sheelin’s Angling Club – The Lough Sheelin Trout Protection Association please contact Thomas Lynch @ 087 9132033.
We would implore anglers and all other users to wear life jackets for their own safety as well as it being the law.
Getting it right – Caoimhe & Oisin Sheridan
Life jackets are required by law – SI No 921 of 2005 – Pleasure Craft (Personal Flotation Devices and Operation) (Safety) Regulations 2005.Water rarely gives second chances and a life jacket is just that – it saves your life.
Please put on and keep on that life jacket until you are back on dry land.
Winners of Breffni Challenge 2017 with Eamonn Gray Breffni Arms Hotel Arva
Alice Murtagh reports from Cavan, that the annual Breffni Challenge took place last week on Gulladoo, Kevin’s Shore, Corfree, Dernaferst, Glasshouse and Rockfield. Good returns were reported each day. The following is a list of the winners:-
1st. Kevin Johnson 56.450kg
2nd. Wayne Fuller 45.580kg
3rd. Mark Harris 42.320kg
4th. Peter Jones 41.310kg
5th. Kevin Abigail 39.810kg
6th. Baz Smith 38.300kg
Winners of Breffni Challenge 2017 with Eamonn Gray Breffni Arms Hotel Arva
Despite low water levels fishing is reported to be good in most areas including Sally Lake Killykeen, Killygowan, Rann. Good bags of Bream, Roach and Tench, also Perch.
The Canal between St John’s and Kiltybarden is fishing particularly well, as are Drumlonan, Bolganard and Derrycassan which are reported to be giving up good bags of fish including Tench.
Pike angling is reported to be slow with the low water levels.
A fine 106cm pike for Dutch visitor Tony, who stayed at Melview Fishing Lodge
Dutch anglers Recardo, Winfred, Barry, Tony, Eddy, Alwin and Johan were here at Melview Fishing Lodge for their annual pike fishing trip – six pike anglers and one coarse angler Johan ( see coarse report). According to Kevin, things were a little slower compared to previous due to the bright sunny and hot conditions. The fish caught were mainly around the 70cm / 80cm along with a couple of 90cm fish, the biggest fish of the week went to Tony measuring 106cm but the Pike master award they fish for went to Barry. Great fun and company guys, hope to see you in Ireland again soon.
A fine 106cm pike for Dutch visitor Tony, who stayed at Melview Fishing Lodge
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.
A fine catch of over 110lbs of roach and hybrids for Dutch angler Johan
Kevin Lyons hosted Johan who was a part of a group of Dutch Pike anglers who came to Melview Fishing Lodge to do some coarse fishing while his friends stuck to their Pike fishing. The first few days produced mainly small bream, skimmers and roach. Once again the best was saved until last and Kevin decided on a change of venue for Johan, so it was off to the mixing bath to mix up some prebait.
Johan eady to go with plenty of Kevin’s special prebait mix
Kevin said, I decided to have a day’s fishing with Johan and it was off in the boat to put all the hard work to the test, the time and the effort paid off for Johan and myself producing 110lb for him and just over 50lb for me. The catch was made up of some fine Hybrids and some cracking Roach on the day and one of the Hybrids was one of the largest I have seen from this stretch of water, thanks for the company and hope to see all of you again in Ireland sometime.
A fine catch of over 110lbs of roach and hybrids for Dutch angler Johan
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.
Smile! A cracking pike shows its teeth for a client of angling guide Pierre Montjarret, who caught the fish in the Dromineer area of Lough Derg
Angling Report for Lower Shannon River Basin District 20th – 25th June 2017.
Weather: Monday through to Thursday were largely bright sunny days with the odd cloud burst. Temperatures remained in the high teens to early twenties. Friday was much cooler with temperatures dropping back to 12 degrees Celsius with a moderate south easterly breeze. Saturday and Sunday seen moderate cloud cover with some showers, temperatures also increased over the weekend with average temperatures ranging from 18 to 21 degrees Celsius.
Angling Report / Feedback:
Pike
Anglers are reporting that Pike fishing is going very well recently in the area, locals and visitors to the area have been very pleased with their catches.
The positive reports are coming back with fishermen stating that a knowledge of the area is very beneficial to Pike anglers given the size of Lough Derg with a lot of Anglers opting for deeper fishing areas. Dromineer has been praised by a number of Anglers recently for its abundance of large pike. A French Angler named Cedric caught a Pike in the Portumna area weighing approximately 30lbs and was delighted with his catch as it was the biggest of his season so far.
Smile! A cracking pike shows its teeth for a client of angling guide Pierre Montjarret, who caught the fish in the Dromineer area of Lough Derg
A fine pike from the Dromineer area of Lough Derg caught recently.
Coarse
Coarse Angling is holding its own throughout the area with anglers being pleased with catches. Meelick is doing quite well in recent weeks and stocks of roach and bream are plentiful in the area. Portumna has plenty of bream at the minute and Clonfert is also fishing well with one Roach caught weighing over 2lbs. The Clonfert area is fishing well in general according to one local angler who was very happy with his catches of Roach, Perch and some hybrids caught on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th of June.
Trout
Trout angling has not been as productive this week in the area but there are reports of 1lb to 2lb trout being caught around the Silver Island area on Sunday the 18th of June.
Bio Security:
Again, we would kindly ask all who use water courses to please consider biosecurity measures for themselves in order to help stop the spread of invasive species in and out of the water.
It’s that time of the year again when the Grand Canal around Tullamore is alive with Angling activity.
Last Thursday 22nd June club members met in force, armed with forks, drag rakes and petrol strimmer’s to voluntary carry out fishing peg clearances for the upcoming junior league which commences on Tuesday the 27th of June.
Members of the Tullamore and District Angling Club who volunteered their time to clear swims and pegs for the junior summer league
The junior league has been a tradition that dates back through the memories of many generations of anglers on the Grand Canal.
It is open to all the public under the age of 18years.
The league consists of seven Tuesday nights of fishing on the canal, between the hours of 7pm to 9pm.
All fish will be weighed after the final whistle at 9pm, and releases safely back into the canal.
Each night each angler’s fish weights will be added up for that evening and the competitors who catch the three heaviest weights of combined fish will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize.
The club will provide fishing tackle prizes throughout the league to the winners.
Each fish weighted will be converted into points scored and at the end of the league one lucky angler with the most points will win the prestigious Canal Cup. There will also be a trophy for the heaviest net of fish caught by an individual angler during one of the seven competitions.
There will be various other prizes of fishing tackle to be competed for.
The competitions will start on the Grand Canal stretch at Whitehall. Meeting at 6.30 to draw pegs and prepare equipment and the fishing will commence from 7pm to 9pm on Tuesday the 27th June 2017.
€10 entry fee covers non-members (€5 for members) and all Competition expenses. Please bring light tackle, a keepnet and rainwear.
The club would also like to thank The National Angling Development Plan, Inland Fisheries Ireland and Tullamore Credit Union who have kindly sponsored the clubs events.
The Grand Canal in Whitehall, Tullamore, looking well after peg clearance for the junior league.
Further dates for your diary’s:
Grand Canal Anglers:
Johnny Cunningham Memorial –July 2nd 2017
Jim Coyne Memorial – July 30th 2017
Both Competitions are coarse angling events open to anglers of all ages. Meeting at 9am. Fishing from 10am to 2pm
Whitehall stretch, Grand Canal Tullamore. €5 Entry fee. Please let us know if you’re interested in taking part. For more info contact 0851537209
A beautiful Corrib trout caught on a Caenis pattern. Photo: Larry McCarthy
Declan Gibbons reports that it was a very varied week in terms of fly hatches with mayfly, sedges & Caenis all in the mix hatching in different locations around the lake at different times & when conditions suit.
Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge (www.corribangling.com) reports that fishing has been a little better this week with good early morning sport. Tony Ling visiting from the UK had 25 good trout up to 4lbs while boated by Larry from Monday to Thursday, all on Caenis patterns. Monday was the most productive day with 12 trout between 1.5lbs and 3lbs. Jim McEvoy from Cork fished for two mornings and had 5 trout up to 2lbs on Caenis.
The water temperature is still well below normal so with an improvement in weather there should be some good fishing to be had on early mornings.
A beautiful Corrib trout caught on a Caenis pattern. Photo: Larry McCarthy
On Sunday last The Corrib Federation hosted The Federation Cup out of Birchall with 62 rods participating in the annual Catch & Release event which sees all funds raised going back into enhancement and development projects around the Corrib. In 1st place was Brian McInerney from Ennis, fellow Ennis man Christy Scanlon was 2nd, and Tipperary angler Paudie O’Brien was 3rd. In 4th was Jim Glynn, Oughterard and 5th place went to Kieran Casey from Tralee.
The Longest Fish prize went to Ennis Angler Brian McInerney Ennis with a fine Corrib trout measuring 66cms, which saw him win the Michael Ryan Cup presented to him by Simon Ryan, Cong – son of the late Michael Ryan who served as an officer and played an active role in the federation. Ennis Anglers won the Best Club section.
Dennis Healy Corrib Federation (left), with Simon Ryan Cong Centre presenting Brian McInerney (right) with the Michael Ryan Cup
In the Cornamona area Richard Molloy(087-2879339) of Ballard Shore Boat Hire & Self Catering reports of visiting angler Ian Scott & partner enjoying an excellent week’s fishing on wet flies in the Carrick & Dooras areas.
Local angler Harold O’Toole had 8 fish for 2 mornings last week on Caenis with the best fish being 3lbs, and on Sunday Harold and his son Harry enjoyed a day out on Corrib catching 2 trout trolling – best fish 1.75lbs.
Frank Butler was in touch with a great report on the recent Galway Windpark Cup, which was run out of Collinamuck on Sunday 29th May. At 11:00am 15 boats took to the water with 42 anglers on board. Conditions seemed very favourable with a good westerly wind providing the perfect dapping conditions. Boatmen from Collinamuck Angling club hosted guests associated with the Galway Windpark including a father and son duo of Paul and Reuben Cooley who travelled from their home in Cavan earlier that morning to fish the competition.
At 1:30pm all the boats landed on Rabbit Island for lunch. As BBQs and Kelly Kettles were lit reports of a few fish being caught gradually permeated through the crowd. There were reports of good fishing to dapped crickets and Green Wulffs with fish rising to dries but not taking too confidently. After a very enjoyable lunch and some liquid refreshments all boats took to the water again with renewed hope and with a flurry of fly changing!
The winning team of Frank Rigney, Paul Malcolm and Michael Burke who won the 2017 Galway Windpark Cup, being presented with their prizes.
At 6pm all boats landed back to Collinamuck Pier for the weigh in. For a total of 45 anglers fishing a return of 28 trout were weighed in for a total weight of 59lb. In first place was the team of Frank Rigney, Paul Malcolm and Michael Burke with a catch of 10 trout for 21.5lbs. In second place was the team of Noel Carter, Paddy O’Farrell and Galway Windpark guest and now proven angler John Howley, with a catch of 4 trout for 6.5lbs. In third place was the team of John Butler and German visiting anglers Thomas and Ortruid with a catch of 4 trout for 6.0lbs. The heaviest fish was caught by David Connolly with a trout weighing 4.0lbs. The ladies prize went to Carmel McDonagh who weighed in 2 fish for a combined weight of 3.0lbs. The junior prize went to Reuben Cooley who landed his first Lough Corrib trout which he returned to the lake unharmed to fight again another day.
Junior Prize winner Reuben Cooley at the prizegiving for the Galway Windpark Cup 2017
The prize giving took place in O’Hallorans bar where cup filling and celebrations went on until late. The committee of Collinamuck & District Angling club would again like to extend their gratitude to the personnel of Galway Windpark in sponsoring this event and also for bringing along several guests to take part in what was a great day on Lough Corrib.
Carmel McDonagh who won the Ladies Prize in the Galway Windpark Cup 2017
Grey Duster Guiding
