Eileen Carroll tells us that 25 salmon were landed for the week ended 18 June,on club waters of the River Lee by local anglers. Best fish was 11lbs caught on a fly.
RIVER LEE ESB FISHERY INNISCARRA
There were a total of 27 salmon and peel landed for the week, all caught by local anglers. A total of 14 peel were landed ranging in weight from 3lbs to 5lbs caught by fly and shrimp. The 13 salmon that were landed ranged in weight from 9lbs to 11½lbs caught by fly and shrimp.
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The River Lee drains a catchment of 484 square miles of which much is taken up by two large reservoirs. Salmon Angling is confined to an 8 mile stretch from Inniscarra dam to Cork city.
Inniscarra Fishery
This salmon fishery is located between Cork City and the dam at Inniscarra (9 miles). The fishery is run by the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) and an ESB permit is required. There is a fair run of fish with a very good grilse run dependent on water. Permits can be purchased on site from Dan O’Riordan, ESB Inniscarra; 087-9983879.
Lee Salmon Anglers Club
The Lee Salmon Anglers club was established in 1967. It was formed by a group of anglers interested in protecting and promoting the sport of salmon and trout angling on the river Lee. Day tickets available: http://www.leesalmonanglers.ie/
Eileen Carroll reports that last week was another good week on the Bandon with over 40 salmon reported to the 18th of June. Many of these were good salmon up to 14lbs. There were also some good quality grilse caught up to 6lbs.
There is still good water on the river and plenty of fresh fish still about.
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For the new year, Bandon Angling Association have set up a new website which you can view here. A new guiding service has been launched in conjunction with Jason Nash, Peter Aspinwall and Phil Dewey. Details of the guiding service are provided on the website and they are looking forward to making memories and enhancing people’s fishing experiences on the river Bandon. Web: https://bandonangling.com/
Kilcoleman Fishery, Enniskeane, is renowned for its hospitality. The owners David and Patricia Lamb make a particular effort to make their guests feel at home. Past visitors have described the atmosphere as ‘laid back’ and the accommodations as ‘cosy’. Kilcoleman is “fly only” throughout the entire season. However, in certain water conditions, spinning is permitted for salmon. Trout angling is “fly only” at all times. web:http://flyfishing-ireland.com
Visiting coarse anglers take the top five prizes at the annual Royal Enfield two-day Festival. The Royal Canal was prepared well by Waterways ireland for the event and produced some cracking catches of skimmers and bream.
Bream
There were 54 anglers fishing the popular event which kicked off at Longwood. The venue fished well and some fine bream were caught. Colin Oliver finished the day in the lead with 13lb 13oz. However there were a few anglers all in double figures.
Day 2 was fished on the infamous Blackshade section, home of many big weights over the years. Paul Hughes started the day in fourth position on 11lb 1oz and ended up with a commanding win of the Royal Enfield Angling Club 2 Day International with a weight of 38lb 10 ozs over the 2 days.
Paul Hughes
He was presented with his trophies and prizes by Enda Raleigh of Waterways Ireland and Cllr Enda Flynn of Meath County Council.
Mike White took 2nd place with Chris Skinner taking 3rd place.
New members are always welcome to Edenderry Coarse Angling Club.
Royal Enfield Angling Club 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
On Sunday 11th June Naas and District Anglers held a summer knock up match on Gills pond in Ballinakill. Eddie Long reports…
We drew our pegs at 9:30 and began setting up for what we’d hoped would be a bagging session. Weather wise, the day started out quite sunny but there was a very strong wind blowing across the lake. This wind was definitely going to make fishing very difficult for those of us unlucky enough to draw a peg on the right side of the lake from Pegs 15 and upwards.
Just before the all in there was a bit of a downpour and as luck would have it I’d left my boots at home. I had the best Goretex money could buy but alas it was channelling the rain water straight down into my runners, boo hoo.
Trev Campbell won the day
I fished a swim at 10m to my left by the lillies with a green swim stim groundbait. To my right I fished a red mix with sensas tanches at 8.5m . I also had a chuck of the method feeder at 35 turns into the centre of the lake and another closer in at 20 turns hoping for an auld lump of a carp. It wasn’t to be on the method as all I hooked were weeds. I spent most of my match fishing my left hand line and it produced a few fish, some puppy trench and one 2lb’r tench which felt like a proper beast on my 12s elastic. Presentation of the bait was practically impossible with the wind constantly blowing the pole left and right and most on my side of the lake were struggling badly. The other side seemed to be much calmer with the wind on their backs and there did appear to be more fish being caught there but not by all.
Bright at times and very windy but some nice fish caught
I had to leave the match a half hour early because I had to go to work so I packed away my gear and left my keepnet behind to be weighed in. I didn’t mind leaving early too much as I hadn’t had a fish for over an hour and it began to rain again so…
Ballinakill is a beautiful lake stuffed with lovely fish but conditions were against us and she just didn’t produce the goods on the day, oh well!
RESULTS
Section A winners
1st Trev Campbell with 11.09lb
2nd Lucasz K with 4.10lb
Section B winners
1st Dan Campbell with 5.14lb
2nd Grazvydas Karalius with 4.01lbs
Prizes were awarded after the match for our Winter League winners.
Overall winners
1st Trev Campbell received €240
2nd Paul McLoughlin received €180
3rd Lucas Cizla received €120
A massive well done to Trev Campbell on his results, he’s on fire at the moment and also to the runners up. It was a very tough and very close winter league that went right down to the wire.
A massive thank you to Norman Rothwell and the Ballinakill A.C. for letting us fish your fantastic lake. I tell ya we’d kill to have such a wonderful venue to call our own but we’ll have to wait till one of our members wins the Euromillions.
Eddie Long.
PRO
Naas & District Anglers
The New Naas & District Anglers Club was set up on the 31 August 2012. Our Club is a Social club. The waters around Naas are Home to brown trout ,salmon,eels, pike, perch, bream, rudd, tench. Naas and District Anglers are dedicated towards getting kids involved in the sport of angling.
Club Members are responsible for restocking and ensuring that all angling byelaws are complied with.
Membership of the club is always open and we welcome new members with open arms.
George & Thomas Quinlan All Ireland Commercial Pairs Champions
Father and on team, George and Thomas Quinlan are the first NCFFI ALL IRELAND COMMERCIAL PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIPS! Congratulations go to the County Carlow anglers for their winning weight of 97.73kg. In second place with 81.12kg was East Belfast Coarse Angling Club anglers John Taggart & Alan Sharkey and in third another father & son combination, fishery owners Adrian Browne & John Brown with 71.55kg.
George & Thomas Quinlan All Ireland Commercial Pairs Champions
The 36 anglers fished a 5 hour match in their pairs combining their weights for a place on the leaderboard. The weather was dull and blustery, getting better as the day went on.
Der Casey presents the champions their prizes
NCFFI Chairman Der Casey presented the super trophies, sponsored by Lazernow Custom Gifts to the top three winning pairs along with a Perpetual Trophy for this event going forward.
Well done to all who took part and thank you to Oaklands lake for their organisation, support and of course the great fishing at this super facility.
Next competition
This year full pay out
1st to 6th overall Cash & Preston Innovations gear.
Team prize
Daily prizes
Saturday draw 12 noon fishing 2 to 7
Sunday draw 10 am fishing 12 to 5
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Oaklands Lake in New Ross Co. Wexford is a fishing paradise for coarse angling. It offers a wide selection of fish. The lake can be fished by people of every level of experience from beginners to professionals.
Adrian Browne
Oaklands Lake,
Marshmeadows,
New Ross, Co. Wexford.
A nice wild grilse released on saturday by Thomas Merkel (Germany) on beat 6. Martin's grilse took a Garry dog in very blustery conditions
Fishery manager Osgur Grieve reports on fishing from 29th August – 5th September.
We have had 17 grilse landed for the week. On Tuesday 29th fishing duo Michael Pettigrew and Neil Walker fished with us and both released a wild fish each of 3lbs from the Falls Pool and Lower Garden Pool using a Cascade. On Wednesday 30th Stephen Pay and Chris Thornton fished the morning on Beat 5 and both had a grilse each weighing 2.8lbs and 4lbs on a Black Pennell on the dropper, both of these grilse were from the Boat Pool. Later that day James Mannion (UK) had a wild grilse of 2.5lbs on a Black Pennell from the Garden Pool. Saturday 2nd saw the return of regular anglers Mick Vincent, Paddy Donegan, Albert Caffrey and Donal Chambers for the week. Paddy Donegan was first off the mark releasing a 4lbs wild grilse from the Falls on a shrimp fly, 20 minutes later Mick Vincent released a 4lbs wild grilse from the Falls using a Cascade. On Sunday 3rd visiting angler Malcolm Simpson released a 4lbs wild grilse from the Falls. Albert Caffrey released a 5.5lbs grilse from Kings on Beat 4 using a Sunray Shadow, and Mick Vincent released a 5.5lbs grilse from the Bog on Beat 4 using a Jock Scott.
Paddy Donegan, Mick Vincent, Donal Chambers, Albert Caffrey – a happy bunch on Beat 9 of the Erriff Fishery, 7 September 2017
Monday 4th was a red letter day for Paddy Donegan, releasing 3 wild grilse of 3.5lbs, 2.5lbs and 4.5lbs from the Garden Pool, Sea Pool and Falls Pool and then went on to release another of 5lbs from Colonel’s Run on Beat 6, all on a shrimp fly. Albert Caffrey also released 2 wild grilse of 4.5lbs from the Sea Pool later that day.
On Tuesday 5th Paddy Donegan was into action again releasing a 4lbs wild grilse from the Falls, again on a shrimp fly and 5 sea-trout of 0.5lbs from the Quarry Pool on Beat 2 on a Collie Dog. Mick Vincent also released 2 sea-trout of 0.5lbs. from the Quarry Pool on a Bibio.
It was great to see a few fresh fish enter the system again and the use of older traditional fly patterns such as the Black Pennell being used to good effect. At the moment the river is rising slightly to 1m and with the rain forecast for the coming few days it should re-awaken the rest of our fish up river.
To book fishing, contact Osgur at 095 42382 or email [email protected]
Declan Gibbon reports from Lough Corrib where trout angling activity has been quiet the last week as some anglers focused their attention on salmon fishing…
Corrib trout
Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge corribangling.com reports of a quieter and fishing has been difficult the last week with wind and rain. Malcom Patrick from the UK fished with Larry for three days and caught ten fish best fish being three pounds on wet fly.
Malcom Patrick, UK
Bill Latham a Guide from the Test River in the UK stayed for four days with three friends and enjoyed some goo dry sedge fishing in the Greenfield area catching several fish each day with Friday last being the best of the days with the two boats catching seventeen trout up to two and a half pounds. Caenis fishing has been poor with heavy winds hampering hatches but on Sunday last Larry reported four trout up to two pounds with two UK guests.
In the Oughterard area Gerry Molloy loughcorriboughterard.com reports of a visiting Swiss group of four rods spinning jerk baiting and trolling landing 42 fish for the week with the best fish 67cms.
Ted Wherry with a stunning 7lbs trout -released. A worthy Catch of the Week Winner
Ted Wherry from Mayfly Lodge Ballynalty (087-4305957) reports of reasonably good fishing on Corrib. Ted tells us a good number of fish were caught for the week by visiting UK angler Andrew Wain. Andrew did particularly well and enjoyed some excellent fishing on Lough Corrib in the Ballindiff and Ballynalty bay areas on a mixture of wet and dry fly. His best was a cracking fish of 6.5lbs and Ted himself landed a fish of 7lbs all sportingly returned.
Andrew Wain with his 6.5lbs trout
Also at the Lodge Richard Robinson fished on Saturday in the Ballycurran area and had fish up to 3.5lbs on wet and dry fly.
Andrew with a smaller trout
On Sunday the 25th The Corrib Federation are hosting The Federation Cup out of Birchall it is a C&R competition with all the proceeds going back into Development & enhancement Projects on the Corrib. Entry Fee is 25Euro and for further details contact Phillip Comber on 0862786301.
Now in its third, revised and extended edition, this book – a landmark on the subject – shows how you can consistently catch specimen pike when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs throughout the northern hemisphere.
How to Catch Big Pike
Distinguished pike fisherman Paul Gustafson, an experienced biologist as well as a gifted angler and researcher, shows how you can develop techniques that will catch bigger pike when fishing any location. He describes how to locate the biggest fish in a fishery, the best way of catching it, and how to apply various clever techniques and the most effective tackle to achieve greater success.
His full-colour new edition includes new photographs and new, specially commissioned artwork. It covers the very latest scientific discoveries about how pike detect their prey through dedicated olfactory organs; how they use their specialised sense of smell; and what it is exactly that pike see – with obvious relevance to choice of lures.
The author has also included new material on the fishing of loughs, lakes and rivers in Ireland; on fly fishing for pike; and on how to locate record pike in a new chapter written by Fred Buller.
Available from littlebrown.co.uk and in ebook form.The book can be purchased by simply calling Elaine Cowie on 0203-1227000 or for Trade Orders Charlotte Clay on 0203-1226791.
Paul has previously released a DVD that also features Ireland, showcasing venues in Cavan and the Lake Counties, Lough Erne, Lough Ramor, Lough Gowna, Lough Oughter and many more. Fly fishing, dead baiting, lure fishing and trolling are all covered in this lovely film with fish of over 23lb being caught.
The D.V.D. is available directly from paulgustafson.com which is full of free tips for pike anglers globally.
Mark Gannon, skipper at Courtmacsherry Angling tells us he was delighted to have Mike and Graeme Pullen, the Totally Awesome Angling team with him this week.
Graeme with his PB Ling of 30lbs
They ventured offshore on Monday in good calm conditions and landed ling to 30 lbs, conger to 25lb, coal fish to 14.5lb. Great day out!
A good coalfish
Anglers taking the self drive’s are doing well on the pollack, bass, dabs, bullhuss, thornbacks.
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
12 June: Daniel had his first salmon ever today which he released to fight another day. He was fishing with Glenda Powell on Blackwater Salmon Fishery. Glenda had a spare hour and was lucky enough to catch a lovely salmon herself.
There were 3 more fish caught on Glenda’s beats. Two 13 lbers and a 12 lber – all released. Chris Coady had a beautiful fish off the Castle beat at the Fortwilliam Fishery. Earlier he had a smaller salmon which was released and 4 were caught on the fishery in total despite the clarity being poor enough. Connie Corcoran had a lovely fish estimated around the 12lb mark at the Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery on a spinner, safely returned. Some great fish moving at the moment throughout the system.
A nice salmon from Ballyduff Bridge fishery
13 June: Fishing was very good today at Fortwilliam Fisherywith some good fish landed. Daniel Penning party from Luxembourg landed four releasing 2 safely off the Glenmore beat. Georgina Green landed a nice grille of 6lbs off the Castle beat.
14 June: Some lovely fish caught by a recent guest at Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery. There were also 2 other fish caught on the upstream beats. Glenda Powell reports 4 fish on the fly today and one lost at Blackwater Salmon Fishery.
15 June: Great conditions for both spinner and fly at Blackwater Salmon Fisherywhere there were 5 fish for the day and the smallest 7 lb. A total of 4 fish landed today for Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery, 2 grilse landed at Ballincurrig and a 6lb and 10lb landed at the bridge, plenty of fish also seen. Kevin Dolan had a fine salmon at Blackwater Salmon Fishery.
Gary’s 18.5lb salmon
16 June: Congratulations to Gary OShea who has just landed his personal best salmon and on the fly too. Gary was fishing on the Blackwater Salmon Fishery when he caught the super fresh fish estimated to weigh 18.5lb.
18 June: Glenmore at Fortwilliam Fisheryis on fire at the moment with another 4 fish today. U.S guests Jack Simkins had 2 grille, one returned, and his buddy Naz had a grilse of 4/5lbs. First time fishing for salmon guided by Bob Woodside
Brian Hennessey had a nice grilse of 6lbs on fly.
Sarah Raven with her first fly caught salmon
19 June: Good sport again at Fortwilliam Fisherythis morning with Sarah Raven landing her first fish on fly. John Cooper had a cracking fish of 14lbs also on fly.
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Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages
Fortwilliam Fishery offers two miles of double bank salmon and trout fishing over five beats on the river Blackwater.
Our salmon include – Springers, May Salmon, Grilse, Back End Salmon, and in Summer sea trout.
Our beats provide a wide variety of water, suitable for both beginners and the more experienced fishermen.
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland Web: www.fortwilliamfishing.ieEmail: [email protected] Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299
Blackwater Salmon Fishery
Blackwater Salmon Fishery has 3 beats downstream of the weir and 2 upstream of the weir. Blackwater Salmon Fishery offers fishing on approximately 5 miles of the river Blackwater. The fishing is spread throughout the middle section of the river to offer good sport throughout the fishing season. Due to the location of the beats, fishing can still usually be offered in low or high water. Contact Glenda Powell: Lismore, Co Waterford, Email:[email protected] Mobile: +353 (0) 872351260 Telephone: +353 (0) 5853929 Web: www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com
Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery
Ballyduff Bridge fisheries control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater. The Ballyduff Bridge beat is almost a mile long offering a huge variety of water and is particularly suited to fly fishing. Upstream near the village of Ballyhooley (a few miles outside the town of Fermoy, Cork) we have two beats. The Ballincurrig Beat is one of the most beautiful locations along the river and has an excellent piece of fly water flowing into a deep pool. Just downstream on the opposite bank we have a short but productive beat, called Magners. This beat fishes also well in high water.
