Eastern Region
David Byrne reports:
E-mail: info@fishingireland.net
[15/07/10]
Very little in the way of sea angling reports this week. The colour in the Boyne Estuary has made fishing difficult and no reports of catches have been received. Reports of tope being caught in North Louth, Dundalk Bay and at Dunany Point have been received but unfortunately no details of individual catches have been received.
Jim Hendrick reports a short session between weather systems produced some nice fish on wednesday 14 July. Jim can be contacted at www.probassfisher.com
Southern Region
John Flynn reports:
enquiries@srfb.ie
[15/07/10]
Milo Bourke wins Youghal open deep sea competition
Over 30 anglers took part in this year's event on the Charter Boats Rebecca C (Martin Colfer), Sea Hunter (Gavin Tivy) and Deora Dé (James Linehan) Saturday's weather was challenging with F4-5 southerly winds and rain on and off all day.
The fishing was good, Cod being caught up to 8lb, Pollack and Ling up to 9lb and Mackerel were in good numbers on Saturday. Sunday's weather was sunny with light winds which were welcomed by all. Mackerel were low in numbers compared to Saturday. An intense day fishing by all to get a high score on the score cards. Big shoals of coal fish being fished by the Deora Dé crew as were found by the Sea Hunter crew on Saturday.
All boats had Cod 7-8lbs, Pollack up to 6-7lbs, Haddock coming aboard the Rebecca C. At anchor conger were slow 5-6 fish on the boats so all went back to drifting. Lines up were 4pm. Prize giving at the Quays Bar (Main Sponsors) 6pm. A great weekend fishing was had by all anglers.
Results after 2 days fishing
- Overall winner with 973 points Milo Burke, Kilkenny Prize Sponsor Quays Bar, Youghal
- 2nd Place with 737 points Kevin Ryan Sponsor Sea Hunter Charters
- 3rd Place with 598 points Mark Ryland, Ardfinnnan Sponsor Rebecca C & Quality Hotel
- 4th Place with 544 points Jackie Byrne, Kilkenny Sponsor Avonmore House B&B
- Heaviest Edible Fish Gerard Barry 9lb Ling Sponsor MV 'Sea Hunter'
- Heaviest Fish Jackie Byrne Sponsor Perks Entertainment Centre
- Most Unusual Caught
- Saturday Davie Murray, Youghal Octopus,
- Sunday Declan Horgan Cork Octopus Sponsors Perks Entertainment Centre
- Most Species Overall Milo Burke, Kilkenny 10 species Sponsor Muckleys Jewellers
Junior U18
- 1st Margess Krurass, New Ross 413pts Sponsor MV 'Sea Hunter' Junior U18
- 2nd Jordan Muir 331pts Sponsor East Cork Superbowl
Ladies Winner
- Sandra O'Shea 410 points Sponsors Ahernes Seafood Restaurant & Des O'Sullivan
Youghals Charter Boats would like to thank the Quays Bar and all the sponsors for their support. Also Youghal Tourist Office, Aquatrek and the people who helped out over the weekend.
For a days fishing on Dept. Marine approved Charter vessels licensed and insured contact Martin Colfer
Mob: 00353 (0)87 2657177 E-mail: info@charterangling.ie
or
Gavin Tivy
Mob: 00353 (0)87 2112488 E:mail: info@seahunter.ie
All are welcome!
South Western Region
Michael Hennessy reports:
E Mail: swrfb@swrfb.ie
[15/07/10]
Cork Harbour angling reports
One of the biggest bass from Cork Harbour in years was recently caught by well known Cork angler, Tony Tait. Tony is well known in the small boats circle, but tries his hand at shore fishing aswell and it was from a harbour shore spot that he caught this beauty. Tony had planned a offshore session on his Warrior 175 but was put off by the strong SW winds that kicked up at the start of last weekend. Instead, Tony opted to fish one of his back-up shore marks in the harbour. Using crab for bait and a simple one hook rig Tony didn't have to wait long before he was into this monster. Tony did expect to hook up a bass but not one of this size!!! Wow, its huge. Well done, Tony. The fish registered 6.36kg on Tony's certified scales, thats over 14lbs in old money. The fish had a length of 83.5cm and a girth of 49.5cm; what a fish!
When Tony did eventually get offshore his run of luck continued. Tony managed a fine specimen megrim, pictured over. Some buggers have all the luck!!!
Tony is a regular competitor in the Cork Small Boats Festival and should be in the final shakeup again this year. For more information on the Small Boats Festival have a look here http://www.skuaangling.net/.
This fantastic story was forwarded by another well known Cork angler, Kevin Murphy of Bellavista Boats. Thanks Kevin. Kevin has a fine fleet of Warrior 175's for hire. If you would like more information on these self-drive boats have a look here http://www.bassfishingireland.com/.
Deep sea Festival
There are €2000 in cash prizes to be won in this year's Cobh International Deep Sea Angling Festival. That's on top of the usual array of crystal prizes. In fact the total prize fund now stands at over €7,500. If you haven't booked in for this event, you should seriously think about giving it a shot, especially as the fishing out of Cork Harbour this year has been so good. The Festival starts on Monday 6th September and runs over 4 days concluding on Friday 10th September.
The fishing over the years at this event has been excellent. It is a unique competition in that points are scored mainly by weight. This is a throw back to the format of old competitions prior to the introduction of conservation in the '70's. In fact Cobh SAC were one of the first clubs to pioneer competitions run under a conservation format. Nevertheless, this competition is the nearest you'll get to the old competitions of yesteryear. The fish are still returned, mind!!! However, they are weighed onboard and recorded to the nearest 0.5kg. Points are awarded by kg and per fish. As a result many of the competitors concentrate on fishing for conger and quite hefty scores can be notched up as the average conger in these parts weigh between 10 and 20 kgs. The heaviest fish last year was a 15kg conger, but there were many of similar size. In prior years they have been even heavier.
It's not all conger, though, and quality cod, ling, and pollack abound. Indeed, tactics come into play and many a previous winner has concentrated on gilling for pollack for the week.
What marks this competition out, though, is the banter and fun to be had during the week. Needless to say it doesn't just end in the boats, but carries on in the various watering holes that all competitors retire to from the pier. Its that mix of quality fishing and craic that has made this such a successful event over the years. Indeed, the competition is in its 44th year now and many of the international anglers from England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Belgium, and Holland have been returning year in, year out.
The beauty about Cork Harbour, aswell, is that in the event of inclement weather there are still productive venues that can be fished. Its definitely one to mark in your calendar. If you are interested in fishing this Festival you can contact Cobh SAC Club secretary, Mary Geary, on 021 - 4812167 for more information, or download the entry forms at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobhsac/. Don't delay, book today!!!
500 pollack to 8lbs in a week from Beara shore
While the weather has become a more unsettled over the past week the shore fishing on the Beara is still good.
On their fourth visist to the Beara Mark, Steve. Peter, Tom and Adam caught Ray to 8lbs, conger to 19lbs, pollack to 4lbs and one memorable day on a previously unfished mark saw Steve and Mark catch 20 huss to 12.5lbs and on plenty of occasions their 80lb line was bitten through indicating a large presence of good congers. The newly named ‘Norfolk Rocks’ will be receiving more attention over the coming weeks.
Danny Parkins and his fishing partner brought their spinning rods to the Beara and during their week long stay had over 500 Pollack to 8lbs 7ozs as well as the Pollack they caught Mackerel, Coalfish, Bass, John Dory, Ballan and Cuckoo Wrasse.
Reports have also reached me of a 17lb 2oz Thornback Ray taken from the shore. Hopefully more on this and a picture next week.
Anyone looking for information on fishing on the Beara can contact me.
Paul Harris
Dromagowlane House
Email Dromagowlanehouse@eircom.net or ring me on
Tel: 00 353 27 60330.
Web www.dromagowlanehouse.com
Castletownbere Small Boat Competition
On Sunday 1st August, we are running a small boat angling competition from Castletownbere. We realise that time is running short, but we are ressurecting this competition that used to run successfully each year in days gone by. Obviously, in todays times, the competition is to be run with a different format than before with hopefully a compromise between environmentally and sustainable fishing, whilst also giving a visual spectacle of a weigh in in the square Castletownbere.
More details and rules below. We hope to see you there on the day.
John Angles
Tigger Pro-charter Offshore 31. 330 HP
Inches House and Resaurant, Eyeries, Castletownbere, Co. Cork.
Tel: +353 (0)27 74494 or +353 (0)86 3983586
Email: info@irelandseaangling.com Web: www.irelandseaangling.com
- 1st prize Most species 2 Nights B&B Rochestown Park Hotel
- 2nd prize €100 Best Specimen
- 3rd prize €50 x 4 for
- Best round fish senior/junior
- Best flat fish senior/junior
- Best round fish junior wins a days angling aboard Tigger out of Castletownbere
Times: Sign in 08.30am at the ferry slipway. Boats depart at 09.15am
Fishing time 10.00am – 5.00pm
Weigh in commences at 6.00pm in the square
Prize giving to follow weigh in
All fish will be weighed and judged as a percentage of the Irish specimen fish listing
Organised by John Angles & Adrian Sparrow
For Further details & boat safety requirements: www.castletownbere.ie
Advance registration: John 086 3983856 Or Adrian 027 70963
E-mail: info@irelandseaangling.com
Competition Rules
- Fishing to start at 10.00AM not before.
- Fishing to finish at 5.00PM not later.
- Entrance Fees Senior €20 Junior (under16) €5
- 1 rod per angler only to be fishing at any time (anglers may carry other rods with them)
- No more than three hooks to be used at any one time.
- For the purpose of this competition Flatfish includes all Ray or Skate.
- There are three tags in each competitors starter pack
- Orange Tag – to be attached to your best round fish
- Blue Tag - to be attached to your best flatfish
- Green Tag - to be attached to your bag containing your various species
- No Fish under minimum size allowed to the weigh in.
- Fish must be submitted to weigh in by 6.00PM latest.
- Judges decision is final in determining Species, Minimum size and weight of all fish submitted to the weigh in.
- All boats entered must meet minimum safety requirements as per registration form. All boats must maintain VHF listening watch on CH16 and monitor CH72 on dual watch for the duration of the competition.
- Fishing limits are as follows:-
- Western Limit – Black Ball Head (prominent with Martello tower)
- Eastern Limit - Roancarrig Lighthouse (East of Bere island white tower)
- Southern Limit- Sheeps head peninsula and same latitude 51 32.500N
- In case of adverse weather conditions, Fishing limits may be reduced at the judges discretion.
- Any fish not on the competition list of species is not eligible for weigh in except as an addition to your species total.
Shannon Region
Brian McManus reports:
info@shannon-fishery-board.ie
[15/07/10]
Great Tope fishing in Shannon Estuary
Since my last report the weather has been not as obliging as it had been over the last weeks. However this has been more than compensated by some of the best Tope fishing I have seen with one 3 hour session resulting in 24 Tope in the boat! One of the strange features of this excellent fishing is that a large proportion has been females. I say this because in my experience in other years most of the Tope we caught were male, with female fish being a real exception. Most of the fish over the last week have been in the 25 to 35lb bracket but all have been very lively and giving a good fight.
As I said we have been a bit restricted in getting fishing out in the open sea but when we do there have been Mackerel in very plentiful supply and with some fine big Pollock feeding underneath to keep all on their toes! In general there seem to be a lot more fish closer in to the Loop and it takes a bit of an effort to keep off the Pollack.
Over the next week the forecast is giving some improvement in the weather and I am hoping to do my first shark drifts. With the water now up to 16’C I would expect that the Blues will be about.
Western Region
Kevin Crowley reports:
E-mail: kcrowley@wrfb.ie
[15/07/10]
Blue sharks from Clifden Sea angling is really picking up over the last couple of weeks, with more and more species now being caught, and boat anglers in particular having excellent sport. Monday the 12th was a good day for Peter Brittain aged 14, son of Clifden skipper John Brittain. While drifting off Slyne Head Peter caught, tagged and released a Blue Shark, the fish was his first ever and also Clifdens first for 2010 so there were smiles all round. During the day Peter also had a specimen red gurnard of .930 kgs and a fine Ling weighing around 7kgs plus 6 other species bringing his count for the day to 9. No pressure Dad!!
For info on fishing or to book a charter trip or B&B contact John or Sue Brittain at
Sharamore House, Streamstown, Clifden, Co. Galway. (Tel. 00353 95 21073)
or check www.seafishingireland.net
Galway bay
Max Couque from Galway Bay Fishing reports on excellent fishing in Galway Bay for himself and Kevin MacGabhann, who both skipper charter boats out of Spiddal. The two boats have around 70 spurdog caught, tagged and released, which is well up on previous years. Galway Bay is the place to come for spurdog, one of the rarer species for anglers around the country. The weather was very good until the end of June and we did a lot of bait fishing catching spurdog, bull huss, pouting, cod, conger eel, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse and tope. 7 tope have been tagged and released so far, including 3 good fish between 30 and 40lbs. Thornback ray are also starting to appear in catches now, and should increase in numbers over the rest of the summer. Mackerel are plentiful and easily come by, so bait is not a problem. Pollack fishing is also very good at the moment, with shads and soft baits proving very effective. We will be targeting the blue sharks very soon as well.
For those who use the internet a lot, Max also mentioned that he has uploaded several videos to youtube, which can be viewed at www.youtube.com/user/galwayfishing and the guys are also on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/GalwayFishingIreland
For info on fishing or to book a charter trip contact Max at 086 3234638 or check www.galwayfishing.ie , or contact Kevin on 086 8547890 or check www.galwaybayfishing.com
North Western Region
Bryan Ward reports:
E-mail: info@nwrfb.com
[23/06/10]
Northern Region
Lindsey Clarke reports:
E-mail: info@nrfb.ie
[15/07/10]
Tope, rays and wrecks for Rosguill
Wreck fishing had been good lately, but the weather prevented us reaching many of the better offshore marks in recent days. Last week we had some lovely ling and pollack. Then as the weather deteriorated fishing was confined to inshore venues.
On Wednesday porbeagle sharks were a possibility following 6 or 7 being landed by local boats the day before. But the conditions were very rough and the big sharks never showed. Fishing was interupted by a Coast Guard request to investigate reports of an upturned vessel. Fortunately it was found to be a silage bale drifting about and we were given permission to return to our fishing.
Though the day was fairly rough no one left disappointed as tope were taken at anchor and on the drift. We also had 3 species of ray in the boat, one after the other, including cuckoo ray which is not very common in these parts.
Dabs on the sand
John Rafferty went sand fishing a couple of times with a friend last week. On the first trip they had a total of 85 fish, plenty of Dabs and Plaice amongst the catch.
On the second day they caught 85 fish in total, 12 different species and everything was caught on lugworm that were stored in the fridge for a week!
Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries
Lionel Knobbs reports:
E-mail: lionel.knobbs@loughs-agency.org
no report this week - [most recent report 26/05/10]
Northern Ireland
[05/07/10]
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