Grilse running the Erriff, prospects good

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June 8, 2017

Osgur Grieve has the angling report from the Erriff for 01/06/17 – 06/06/17…

1st wild salmon 2017 released by peter coyne — 1st wild salmon 2017 released by Peter Coyne

The arrival of the grilse has produced 12 fish for the week. On June 1st local man Peter Coyne fished and was rewarded with a wild salmon of 6lbs, which he returned. This fish took a willie gunn in the middle garden pool. Next up was regular visitor Ian Ferris who on Friday 2nd had a 4lbs grilse from the falls pool on a cascade. Later on Ian lost a much much bigger fish at the falls after playing him for 5 minutes much to his disappointment! Bank holiday Monday proved to be a red letter day for regular visitor Kevin Attride who landed 5 fish in total these fish weighed 4lbs.,10.75lbs.,3.75lbs.,4lbs.,4lbs. The fish all came from the falls and middle garden pool and wild fish were returned.

Both Gilbert Veillerose (France) and local club man James O’Neill fished on Monday and returned a grilse each of 4lbs. and 3.75lbs. from the middle garden and bridge pool respectively, James also had 5 sea-trout in the 0.5lbs bracket returned. With the river holding nicely above 1.1m during Tuesday, regular visitor Stuart Royle had his first and second ever salmon from the Erriff. His fish came from the middle garden pool and coronation pool on beat 8 and weighed 6lbs. and 5lbs. both of which he released. Stuart also lost another fish in the gauge pool. Visiting angler Paul Boyle (Northern Ireland) released a nice 3lbs. grilse in the middle garden pool also on Tuesday. While the cascade did catch fish it was good to see other flies such as the Garry dog, Yellow Ally’s and Foxford shrimp also do the business. Prospects look good for the coming week with more rain forecast.

For fishing bookings please call the fishery office on (095) 42382.

Royal Canal produces the good for novice anglers

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June 8, 2017

Junior anglers and cousins Shane O’Reilly (7) and Tom Creagh (12) went fishing on the Royal canal recently. Neither had managed to catch a fish before in a couple of outings at different venues but this time they struck it lucky and they both managed to catch their first ever fish – a nice bream for Tom and a small rudd for Shane followed by a roach.

The fish were caught using 12 foot match rods with maggots fished under waggler floats. Both of the lads had more chances to catch fish with plenty of bites to each rod but then the heavens opened up and the anglers had to beat a hasty retreat home for their dinners. They’ll be back soon though, that’s for sure.

Summer grilse run in full swing at Galway

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June 8, 2017

Seamus Hartigan reports on the salmon fishing at the Galway Fishery where 137 fish were caught between June 1^st – 7^th …

Galway Weir was the place to be this week, with the summer grilse run is full swing. With 1 sluice gate open conditions for angling were excellent, especially for fly-fishing. Anglers enjoyed excellent sport, with former Galway Fishery Manager Ned Cusack landing a nice fresh run grilse on the fly weighing 4lbs on his first outing of the season from the high bank. Ned made a bit of history on the day, landing the fish un-aided in his 98^th year!! He enjoyed some sport later on with his sons Jim & Eamonn, which turned out to be a very special family day for the Cusack’s on the Weir.

Noel King and son from Co. Meath enjoyed good sport on the Weir catching 5 fish between them, as did Thomas and Robert Falconer from Dublin with 4 fish on the fly and hooking several more during the session. American Golfer Mark O’Meara had some good sport on the fly during his visit, with mainly catch and release the order of the day. John Ryan from Tipperary has a red letter day on the fly, reaching the bag limit within a short time of starting, catching releasing a couple more during his session. Not to be outdone, Northern Ireland long-time regulars Terry McDermott and Billy Campbell had some great fly-fishing during their visit, recording some excellent quality fish to 7lbs on the fly.

A family outing for the Quinlivan family from Co. Limerick Tim and his two daughters Ellie & Shauna saw both girls engage fish on the fly, which unfortunately were not landed. Both girls enjoyed themselves with their father Tim acting as gillie on the day. It was a joy to witness both girls casting a fly wading in the river. Hopefully they will be part of the next generation to take up the sport of angling.

Otis Ferry over for a family wedding in Co. Galway enjoyed some evening sport on the fly catching 3 fish, releasing 2 back to fight another day. Dublin referee David Penny and companion Colm Adams also got on the score sheet, taking 4 fish between them for their trip. Cork pair Jim McEvoy and Tom Beecher kept the flag flying with some great sport on fly, with several of their fish tipping the scales to 6lbs. Catch for the week was 137 fish, mainly grilse, but a few bigger late run spring salmon were also recorded.

Inland Fisheries Ireland launches public consultation on sea trout policy development

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June 7, 2017

Inland Fisheries Ireland launches public consultation on sea trout policy development

Inland Fisheries Ireland has launched a public consultation on the development of a national sea trout policy and is now inviting submissions from the public. Sea trout has significant economic and cultural importance in Ireland with potential for further development. This is coupled with major concerns about sea trout stock declines in some systems nationally, most particularly along the western seaboard and requires that future management of sea trout is underpinned by a comprehensive policy. The Board of Inland Fisheries Ireland, in embracing its national species policy development responsibilities, has now commenced the process of developing this policy.

Sea trout in Ireland, in the context of legislation and management, has traditionally been closely identified with salmon and this consultation process will consider the requirement of establishing a separate identity for sea trout. The policy will make recommendations which will inform a range of issues including sustainable management of stock and any possible legislative changes that may emerge in the future. Other areas to be addressed will include protection and conservation (including biodiversity, habitat protection and interactions with aquaculture), stock assessment, and education and promotion.

Sea trout, the migratory form of brown trout, leave freshwater as a juvenile fish typically after two years. They enter marine waters where they feed heavily before returning to freshwater, usually to breed with some components of the population spawning several times over their lifetime. As a result, the sea trout is a valuable angling fish which occurs in most coastal rivers and inshore waters.

Inland Fisheries Ireland recognises the diverse opinions of stakeholders regarding the future management of sea trout and their fisheries and encourages stakeholder engagement through this public consultation process. Interested parties are invited to make submissions which will be reviewed and considered by the Sea Trout Policy Group which comprises of a range of representatives with a broad experience of sea trout within Inland Fisheries Ireland.

Ciaran Byrne, CEO of Inland Fisheries Ireland said: “The sea trout is a complex migratory fish frequenting freshwater, estuaries and marine waters. The biodiversity, economic and cultural value of this type of fish requires a policy direction to manage this precious resource sustainably and to conserve it into the future. This public consultation, and ultimately the policy recommendations which will emerge, will capture stakeholder views and incorporate the broad scope of management issues that will underpin future policy.”

Information on the consultation is available here or from any Inland Fisheries Ireland office. The public consultation period will run for five weeks until Wednesday, 12^th July 2017. All submissions must be made in writing and will be published on the Inland Fisheries Ireland website www.fisheriesireland.ie. Submissions should be marked ‘Public Consultation – Sea Trout Policy’ and can be submitted by email ([email protected]) or by post to:

Sea Trout Policy, Inland Fisheries Ireland, 3044 Lake Drive, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, D24 CK66.

Mayfly done on Corrib, but good trout to Caenis

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June 6, 2017

Gareth had 24 trout, 3 over 4lb. all released

Declan Gibbons, reporting from the shores of Lough Corrib, tells us that the trout angling quietened down in the week gone by with lesser hatches of mayfly and changeable weather conditions. The anglers who had the best success were caenis fishing.

Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge Glencorrib ( corribangling.com ) reports of very productive angling for the last week. The first three days of the last week saw Larry boating Jeremy Herrmann, England on early mornings and they caught an average of eight to ten trout per morning in the Clydagh and Saddle areas.

Gareth Jones, Wales sales director with Airflo fished the last four days with Larry and boated a total of twenty four fish with three of Gareth’s weighing four pounds plus and all twenty four sportingly released. Pat Winning boated ten fish for the week while guiding for the lodge with the best fish being two pounds, six of the fish were between 1.lbs to 2lbs.

The Cornamona Angling Club hosted The TAFI Youths Connacht Lake Cup on Saturday last

1st place Ciaran Flaherty with 10 fish.
2nd place Nathan Creavan with 5 fish
3rd place Gearoid Flaherty with 3 fish.

Longest Fish went to Ciaran Flaherty with a trout 37cm.

Ciaran Flaherty left reciving The TAFI Connacht Youth Cup From Martin Kinneavy TAFI & Cornamona the host club — Ciaran Flaherty left receiving The TAFI Connacht Youth Cup From Martin Kinneavy TAFI & Cornamona the host club

Peter Curran from Cornamona enjoyed a few days fishing last week and had good fishing on a mixture of trolling and fly
fishing with the best fish being three pounds.

On Sunday last The Cong Angling Club hosted their Annual Mayfly Competition with fourteen anglers participating.

1st place Caolan McDonnell Cong with 3 fish for 6lbs 9oz
2nd place Gerry McDonnell Cong with 2 fish for 4lbs 12oz
3rd place Mike Molloy Oughterard with 1 fish 1lbs 12oz

Heaviest fish went to Caolan McDonnell with a fish 2lbs 12oz.

Caolan McDonnell on right hand side of picture being presented with his prizes by John Fahy Cong AC

Basil Shields of Ardnsillagh Lodge Oughterard (091-552550) reports of a quieter week gone by on Corrib with guests coming to fish caenis and those that did had some success but that was short lived due to a drop in temperatures and change in weather conditions. Those that had success were Jeremy Herrmann form England who had four fish on Thursday last. Mark Telwright from England also had four fish for his morning on Corrib with his best fish being four and a quarter pounds. Then on Friday last Basil guided visiting angler from England Matt Baker whom had two fish for his outing with the best fish being two and three quarter pounds.

Ted Wherry from Mayfly Lodge Ballynalty (087-4305957) reports of visiting anglers from England Adrian Harrop and Peter Dixon enjoying good fishing on Corrib for their stay and guided by Ted on wet flies with four of their better fish ranging in size from 3lb2oz and the best fish being 4Lbs7oz. Also at Mayfly Lodge Richard Robinson guided Jake and Zak Wiesenberg from New Mexico with Jake landing a fish of two and a half pounds.

On Thursday last The Irish Army hosted their Annual Fishing Competition in which 58 rods participated made up of serving and retired personnel form the army along with boatmen and on the day 23 fish were landed.

Serving Category:

1st place went to Eamon Fitzpatrick Finner
2nd place went to John Ainsworth Renmore
3rd place went to Connie Gillespey Athlone
4th place went to Sean Forde Cork
5th place went to Thomas Dunne Athlone

Retired category was won by Michael Murray Collinamuck & Boatmans Category was won by Darragh Noone Oughterard

Sea anglers get a good haul of species from Killala Bay

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June 6, 2017

Donal Kennedy, chart boat skipper on Killala Bay, reports that on Saturday 4th June a party of anglers from Dublin, Tullamore and Foxford set out into the Bay for a day’s fishing. Weather was very blustery and the stiff SW winds made the drift very fast. Over a number of good fishing spots the skipper had placed the boat many species were caught. When the winds shifted to the West Donal decided to cross over the bay to the west side to seek shelter and drift over a sandy area. This was a very good fishing ground with Turbot, Brill , Dabs and some fine Plaice being landed.

The catch included Pollock, Coalfish, Pouting, Tub Gurnard, Brill, Turbot, Plaice, Dab, Red Gurnard, Grey Gurnard, Cod, spurgdog. Some of the better spurs were into double figures and a good tope was lost at the side of the boat when it parted company with the angler with an angry slash of its tail.

All arrived home to Killala Pier safe and 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.

Longford anglers set to take part in Go Hire National Pike Championships qualifier on Sunday, June 11, Longford Leader

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June 6, 2017

Longford anglers set to take part in Go Hire National Pike Championships qualifier on Sunday, June 11

The 2017/18 Go Hire National Pike Championships continue next Sunday, June 11 on the River Finn near Clones in County Monaghan. The championships consist of 10 independent qualifying competitions, a stewards qualifier and the Final. The top 5 anglers from each independent qualifier go through to fish in the Final. The top angler in the Final will become the National Pike Champion and will captain the top 10 anglers from the Final in a 2 day International Team Challenge Competition to be held in October 2018…
Longford Leader, 03/06/17. Read the full article ‘Longford anglers set to take part in Go Hire National Pike Championships qualifier on Sunday, June 11‘.

Kildare fishers and youth groups encouraged to apply for film competition, Leinster Leader

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June 6, 2017

Kildare fishers and youth groups encouraged to apply for film competition

Inland Fisheries Ireland has launched a Fish & Film competition to encourage young people to spread the word about fishing. Junior fishing clubs, youth clubs, projects and centres in Kildare are invited to apply to the competition by taking film footage of their fishing adventures and promoting it online. The Fish & Film competition will see Kildare entrants film a fishing trip and include fun interviews on what angling means to them…
Leinster Leader, 02/06/17. Read the full article ‘Kildare fishers and youth groups encouraged to apply for film competition‘.

How to make the most of trout season, Irish Times

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June 6, 2017

Throughout most of early Irish food history, fishing was simply a matter of survival, simply a way to get additional foodstuff into our diet. For thousands of years, settlers fished in estuaries, the mouth of the river where the fresh water met the sea. At the mouth of the Liffey, for example, they built wattled weirs to force fish into collection points where they could be netted or speared. Then they toasted them over open fires or simply ate them raw…
Irish Times, 02/06/17. Read the full article ‘How to make the most of trout season‘.

Conviction for fish kill in Glenamaddy highlights consequences of pollution, Galway Advertiser

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June 6, 2017

Conviction for fish kill in Glenamaddy highlights consequences of pollution

A landowner has been convicted of a breach to the Water Pollution Act in Glenamaddy, Co Galway which resulted in a fish kill. At a sitting of Tuam District Court, Michael Conneally of Boyounagh, Glenamaddy pleaded guilty to permitting silage effluent to enter the Yellow River, a tributary of the Clare River, on June 15 2016…
Galway Advertiser, 01/06/17. Read the full article ‘Conviction for fish kill in Glenamaddy highlights consequences of pollution‘.

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