The ladies took centre stage on the second day of Inland Fisheries Ireland’s Fisheries Awareness Week events today at Kilineer Reservoir in Drogheda. The event was hosted by Drogheda and District Anglers Club at Kilineer with the reservoir being reserved solely for the ladies until 2.15pm. The event was being run in support of Action Breast Cancer.
With the marquee in position and plenty of fish in the reservoir, top APGAI Instructor and Ladies World Distance Fly Casting Champion Glenda Powell kicked off proceedings at 10am. The ladies were informed about the mechanics of fly casting and then all of them had an opportunity to have a go casting. After a bit of practice the ladies took to the lake to have a go at catching a fish. I supposed that it is no surprise that many of the ladies caught a fish and many of them had more than one fish. After a spot of lunch the ladies returned to the lake and more fish were caught with all the fish being released back unharmed to the reservoir.
A trip to the river was cancelled as the ladies were enjoying the reservoir location so much. At 2.30pm the ladies were joined by around six of the club members with many of these very skillful anglers quickly filling their bag limit of three trout. A number of the ladies fished on for an hour or two with Katie Buchanan continuing to catch and release fish. From speaking to the ladies many of them are in favour of taking part in a lady ramblers club, with the ladies having the option to visit a number of other locations over the remainder of the season. We look forward to seeing the ladies out and about fishing over the course of season.
