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Lene trout not always easy, but don't give up

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myleskelly
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Tony Reilly and John Gallaghan on Lene
Tony Reilly and John Gallaghan on Lene

Michael Flanagan from Midland Angling reports on a great catch on Lough Ree…
I was on Lene last week with the Maddigan Boys Paddy, and his Son Andrew, and boy did we struggle to get a fish. We got off to a fantastic start with Andrew having a rainbow with in the first half hour on the fly, but it was downhill for the rest of the day. Plenty of fish were surface feeding, but could not interest them in taking our dry fly. We eventually got a bit tired lashing out flies, and trolled for a few hours which was also non productive.

Tony Reilly and John Gallaghan on Lene
Tony Reilly and John Gallaghan on Lene

I always say every day is different when out on the lakes, and last weekend Lene did produce some cracking rainbows. It was a very busy spot with many anglers out on Saturday and Sunday, and we captured club member John Gallagher and pal Tony Reilly on camera. The lads had some beautiful fish on dry fly, and I got a few special flies from John, which I hope to put two the test before Lene closes.

Last call…

Lough Lene is producing some nice trout on the dap we are told, and club members are gearing up for the Chairman Pairs competition. This is the last fly-fishing competition on Lene, and all proceeds these years will go to R.N.L.I.It will take place on Sunday September 25th and members can invite a friend to compete in this year’s pair’s competition. Fishing is from 11am-6pm from Fagan’s Point.
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

Steve turns a big trout on Ree

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myleskelly
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Steve Turner of Athlone with Ree beauty
Steve Turner of Athlone with Ree beauty that wins him Catch of the Week

Michael Flanagan from Midland Angling reports on the trout fishing at Lough Ree…

Steve Turner of Athlone with Ree beauty
Steve Turner of Athlone with Ree beauty

If you are planning a trip to Lough Ree for a bit of trout fishing, now is the time to set sail. Ree like some of our other Midland lakes will close for trout fishing on September 30th, which is only a few weeks away. Recently Athlone angler Steve Turner produced a beautiful looking Lough Ree wild brown trout that rattled the scales at 8lbs 8oz, we were told. Steve is well known on the trout angling scene and I’ve met him from time too time on Owel. This time around he was out on Ree with angling pal Philip Cunningham, and after a quick photograph Steve sportingly returned his prize catch. Ree will remain open for coarse fishing all winter, and some cracking pike, and perch, will come on line.

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

Owel anglers pipped by postman at trout competition

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myleskelly
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Andy Boyle Chairman L.O.T.P.A. presents Alan Tyrrell with Clonhugh Cup
Andy Boyle Chairman L.O.T.P.A. presents Alan Tyrrell with Clonhugh Cup

Michael Flanagan from Midland Angling reports on the competition scene at Lough Owel…

Brace of Owel trout.
Brace of Owel trout.

Lough Owel Anglers were in action last Sunday and fished the Clonhugh Cup. This was the last club competition of the 2016 season, and twenty-five trout were presented at the 7pm weigh-in. In addition quite a few fish were caught and returned on the day. Local Postman Alan Tyrrell was top rod with a trout of 1.320kg, John Plunkett finished 2nd with 1.300kg,John Reid 3rd with 1.285kg, and 4th Brendan Murray with 1.240kg.

Andy Boyle Chairman L.O.T.P.A. presents Alan Tyrrell with Clonhugh Cup
Andy Boyle Chairman L.O.T.P.A. presents Alan Tyrrell with
Clonhugh Cup

Brendan also picked up the Tommy McCormack Cup presented by Mick McCormack to the Top Lough Owel Angler during the 2016 season fly-fishing competitions. Lough Owel will produce a few good fish in the coming weeks, and the trout season will close on October 12th. Boat hire on Owel give Jack Doolin a bell on 044-93-42085.

Get in the net…

I mentioned some weeks back that I picked up a lovely Silstar landing net in David O, Malleys.I was seriously thinking about getting it blessed or sprinkle a drop of Holy Water on it, as I was struggling to get a fish into the boat every time I took it with me. Well as they say the duck was broken and I boated a few lovely Owel trout last week in very blustery conditions. If you remember back to last Friday the rain that fell was out of this world, and I am beging to wonder is their any wet gear that is actually waterproof. Still I battled on and the Silstar net is a lovely bit of kit, ideal for boat and bank fishing. The lever lock is very sturdy, and it will extent two almost 5ft, handy for my little arms some might say. The Bubber net meshing is very soft, and fish can be easily removed from the net. I am sure if you drop into David he will give you a bit more information on this lovely bit of angling gear. I still have the Leeda Digital scales to put two the test, maybe a trip to Ree is on the cards.

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

Googling trout in the midlands

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myleskelly
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Arseny Ivanov and lovely perch
Arseny Ivanov and lovely perch

Michael Flanagan from Midland Angling reports on a trolling trip across some Midlands lakes…

Our pals from Google were back drifting across the Midlands recently and had a lovely days trolling. Arseny Ivanov of St Peterburg, Pavel Pimshin of Volgograd, and Baur Sauranbek of Kazakhstan caught some lovely perch and trout on a variety of small lures, including rainbow trout colors, and fire tiger lures. These are available in our local angling centers.

Arseny Ivanov and lovely perch
Arseny Ivanov and lovely perch

The lads are planning another trip soon as our trout season is winding down, but will also take time out from the Google offices in Barrow Street in Dublin for some winter pike and perch fishing.

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

Just a few salmon on the Lee last week

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myleskelly
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Eileen Carroll Murphy IFI reports from the River Lee for the week ended Sunday 11th September 2016:

8 salmon caught spinning, best 7lbs by a local angler

RIVER LEE ESB FISHERY INNISCARRA

No catches reported but water level are fine and fish are showing but just not catching which is normal for this time of the year on this fishery.  Anglers are happy that fish are showing and look forward to the prospect of catching them before the end of the season.

Go fishing…

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/

South Connemara producing sea trout as Cal finds the silver

By
Kevin Crowley
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Brian Curran was in touch to report fishing continues to be good at Crumlin.

He had a Cork angler, Cal Healy out on Sunday and he produced the first salmon of the season after 10 minutes effort. The fish weighed 7lbs. While the lakes are very high at the moment the sea trout fishing is good and Cal had 4 finnock to the boat and rose many more.

 

Boats can be hired on the fishery from Brian Curran at 087 2509

 

Cal Healy from Cork, with a nice grilse taken on the Crumlin Fishery on 11 September, 2016.
Cal Healy from Cork, with a nice grilse taken on the Crumlin Fishery on 11 September, 2016.

722, or visit the web site at www.irelandwestangling.ie

Mask fishing very well in high water

By
Kevin Crowley
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Ronan Cusack says reports have been very good from Mask this week, as we head towards the middle of September.

The Licenced Vintner’s Federation of Ireland held their annual 2 day competition recently, which was supported by 128 anglers from across the country. Conditions on the first day were difficult, with low pressure and virtually no wind, resulting in only 13 trout being weighed in. Fresher conditions on the second day saw an improvement, with the deep producing some impressive bags.  This year’s top rod went to Donal Forrest from Cork with 4 fish for 2.116kgs. In second place was Eddie Gibbons from Tourmakeady, who also had 4 fish for 2.116Kgs kgs. The organizing committee made the decision to award first prize to the angler with the heaviest individual fish. In third place was Patrick Molloy from Oughterard with 4 fish for 2.079kgs. Heaviest fish went to John Murray from Sligo with a trout of 1.366kgs. This year’s winning team was Kevin Cremin, Patsy Tracy, Eddie Gibbons and Michael O’Leary with a total of 12 trout for 6.355kgs.

 

Local Ballinrobe angler Peadar Jennings had 6 good fish from the deep on Thursday evening last pulling wet flies (best fish 1.75lbs, all returned). John Brennan and Kieran Newman from Longford fished Mask on Saturday last and they reported landing and returning approximately 15 fish over the 13” limit for the day (best fish 1.75lbs). Billy Graham from Northern Ireland also fished on Saturday and he had 6 good fish from the deep on wets (best fish 2.5lbs). Kieran Biggins from Ballinrobe had 2 trout in the shallows on Saturday evening (best fish 1.5lbs). Kevin Egan and Michael Vahey from Ballinrobe fished for a half day on Saturday and they finished with 7 on a combination of wets and dries (best fish 1.75lbs, all returned). Overall Mask is fishing well and worth a visit.

 

We would like to remind anglers that have not seen their boats on Mask recently to do so, as water levels have risen quite a bit in the last 2 weeks and boats need to be pulled up the shore a bit.

Sedges produce great late season sport on Corrib

By
Kevin Crowley
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Declan Gibbons reports on an upturn in fishing on Corrib over the last week with anglers everywhere reporting better fishing.

Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge, Glencorrib (087-9135222, www.corribangling.com) reports a much improved week on Lough Corrib, with plenty of good fish on dry sedge patterns. Best were in the Greenfields and Inishanbo areas of the lough. There were notable catches for visiting angler Tom Chamberlain from Wales, who had several trout over three days fishing with Larry, two of the trout being Corrib beauties over 3lbs. Ferdinand Rodrigues had two days guided by Larry and had trout to 3lbs on reed smut and small dry sedges. Frank Reilly while guiding for Corrib View Lodge with French angler Lauren Pouillaud caught a lovely trout over 4lbs. Hopefully with some light winds forecast the remainder of the season will be good.

Tom Chamberlain from Wales with a fine Corrib trout caught while fishing with guide Larry McCarthy, September 2016
Tom Chamberlain from Wales with a fine Corrib trout caught while fishing with guide Larry McCarthy, September 2016

 

Recently The Oughterard Anglers and Boatman’s Association hosted the Kevin McQuinn Cup (Junior Competition) which saw Sean Molloy of Baurisheen take 1st place with one trout for 1.44kg. Second place went to Shane Joyce, Glann with a trout of 1.00kg and in third place was Liam Ferguson with a trout weighing 0.96kg.

Frank Reilly with a nice Corrib trout, September 2016
Frank Reilly with a nice Corrib trout, September 2016

 

Staying in the Oughterard area Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (091-552550) reports good fishing during the week gone by with most of the action being had on Daphnia-feeding fish in the deeps. On Monday Eddie Rowe from Dublin had 2 trout on wets, while on Thursday visiting UK angler Phil Potts had an excellent day’s fishing, landing 7 trout for his visit. On Friday last Mallow angler Neil Glavin had 3 trout for his trip to Lough Corrib. Regular visitor to Lough Corrib John Fitzgerald from Shannon had 3 fish for his day’s fishing and fellow Shannon angler Glen O’Connell had 3 fish for a day during the week and on Saturday last he had 1 trout.

Ted Wherry of Mayfly Lodge, Ballynalty Bay (tel. 087 4305957) reported 2 guests at Mayfly Lodge had great fishing over 2 days each on small sedges; Paedar McAvinnney with 8 fish (best 4lbs) and Jason James with 9 fish (best 3.5lbs). Ted also enjoyed some good fishing himself, as evident from the photo below.

Ted Wherry with a fine trout from Lough Corrib, September 2016
Ted Wherry with a fine trout from Lough Corrib, September 2016

Good water helps fishing on Erriff as late season sport produces fish

By
Kevin Crowley
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Fishery manager Osgur Grieve reports on another positive week on the Erriff following on from last week, with 6 salmon and 13 sea trout for the week. Regular visitors from France Jean-Jacque Calvar and Jean-Francoise Calvar with their friend Jean-Pierre Leroy had 2 salmon of 2lbs and 2.5lbs on a ”little black fly” of their own tying along with 10 seatrout between 1 and 2lbs for the last 4 days of their holiday. Graham Smith (UK) released 1 salmon of 6.5lbs from the Paddystick Pool on Beat 3 using a Collie Dog, interestingly this fish took the fly as he dragged it across the surface of the pool. Graham also had 3 sea trout of 1lb for his visit. Thursday 8th was Martin Davison’s turn when he released a 3.5lbs grilse from the Glenacally pool on Beat 5 using a Park Shrimp.

Traci Walker along with her husband Marc fished on the morning of the 9th in a gale and pouring rain, their perseverance paid off with Traci catching her first salmon of approximately 4lbs, which was then returned after a quick photo. This was a great achievement as it was her first attempt at fly-fishing!

Saturday 10th saw George Jones from Tyrone release a 5lbs grilse from the Broken Bridge Pool on a Cascade.

Marc Walker with a nice 4lbs grilse from the Garden Pool on the Erriff, September 2016. The fish was released after a quick photo.
Marc Walker with a nice 4lbs grilse from the Garden Pool on the Erriff, September 2016. The fish was released after a quick photo.

Fishing prospects look good for the next few days with plenty of water in the system and we still have rods available for anglers looking for late season salmon fishing.

Aasleagh Lodge and the Erriff Fishery currently has a special offer available for the last couple of weeks of the season – a two-night fishing package with one dinner and one day’s fishing for €188.80 per person sharing. For bookings please call (095) 42208 or check www.errifffishery.ie

 

Great weights in challenging conditions at Arvagh competition

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IFI Staff
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L to R Neil Mallinson Neil Parkinson Kevin Johnson
L to R Neil Mallinson Neil Parkinson Kevin Johnson

Alice Murtagh from the IFI Corlesmore office reports:

The annual Arva International Coarse Fishing Competition took place last week with 72 anglers taking part. Venues included Dernaferst, Gulladoo, Kevins and Tessas, Corfree, Rockfield and Glasshouse. Weather conditions were challenging at times but fantastic weights were recorded at all venues.

L to R Neil Mallinson Neil Parkinson Kevin Johnson
L to R Neil Mallinson, Neil Parkinson and Kevin Johnson

The winners are as follows:-

  • 1st. Neil Parkinson 75.480kg
  • 2nd. Kevin Johnston 71.410kg
  • 3rd. Neil Mallinson 62.130kg
  • 4th. Ian Fieldhouse 57.340kg
  • 5th. Kevin Rowles 57.070kg
  • 6th. Simon Godfrey 55.570kg
Neil Parkinson
Neil Parkinson

Get more details on the area from our website ‘Carrigallen, Arvagh, Cavan’

carrigallen-arva-map

Alice Murtagh
 Inland Fisheries Ireland – Corlesmore Office, Arva, Co. Cavan
[email protected]
Tel: +353 (0)49 4337174

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