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IRISH ANGLING UPDATE
From the
Inland Fisheries Ireland
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For Angling queries contact: Paul Bourke
E-mail:
paul.bourke@fisheriesireland.ie
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COARSE ANGLING
15 September 2011
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- Tench to 3.5lb from Inniscarra
- Jack Tisdall announces the Erne Anglers Angling Club Winter League
- Super match results for the Arvagh Festival where there was some excellent catches recorded
- Fantastic coarse angling match results reported at Inniscarra Lake along with excellent pleasure catches of roach, bream, hybrids, rudd and perch
- Good dace fishing for anglers fishing the River Barrow in Carlow town
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New coarse angling regulations
A 2010 regulation - that will be welcomed by most - is that which prohibits the killing of coarse fish (including eels).
As a summary (with effect from 1st January) - Coarse fish. It is prohibited to kill coarse fish (however, see regulation on pike, below) in the Foyle and Carlingford areas waters.
Eels. It is prohibited to kill eels in the Foyle and Carlingford areas. All such coarse fish and eels caught, must be carefully handled and returned alive and unharmed to the water.
Pike. There is a bag limit of 2 pike weighing 4 kg or less, on any one day. Pike of 4kg or more must be returned unharmed to the water. There is an exception for specimen pike with a bag limit of 1 specimen pike in any one day (a specimen pike in a river is 9 kg or more; a specimen pike in a lake is 13.6 kg or more).
Live bait. Live fish cannot be used as bait in fresh waters in the Foyle and Carlingford areas. |
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SEA & SHORE ANGLING
15 September 2011 |
- Cobh International Deep Sea Angling Festival results
- The big skate festival is on at Westport on the 1st and 2nd of October
- More porbeagles from the Antrim coast
- Specimen wrasse for Jim O’Malley off the Clare coast
- West Coast Shore League, plenty of surf but few fish
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LARGEST FISH EVER CAUGHT ON ROD AND LINE IN IRELAND
 
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Luke Aston 'Clare Dragoon' Angling Column 2009: A Six Gill shark was caught by Joe Waldis from Switzerland on the 16th of June. Joe was on a fishing trip with two other friends on the charter boat the Clare Dragoon and was fishing about five miles north of Loop Head. Measuring in at a staggering length of 3.91 metres (almost 13 feet) and with a girth of 2.28 metres, but it was still a surprise when it tipped the scales at 480 kg or 1056 lbs! From what we can gather it was 160 lbs. off a World record. 16 June 2009
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IRISH ANGLING FESTIVALS
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Information above has been provided bythe
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FISHING ON THE BEARA
Angling report May 2011
Paul Harris of Dromagowlane House reports: |
MAY was a strange month with much of the hot, sunny, still weather giving way to showery, cooler and (very) windy weather at times, but still we got out to do a bit of fishing.
As is often the case in May there was not so many anglers about as the majority wait till June but they often miss out on some excellent early season fishing. I had great plans to get out but got caught by herself to do a bit of work on the house as we were due an inspection for our Star grading. Jobs done, and 4 Star status achieved, I was let off the lease and found plenty of sport to keep me busy. Ray fishing was good with both thornies and spotted but although I got within 4 ounces I could not get a specimen.
Had the same problem with the mullet, lots of fish to 4.5lb but a 5 pounder remained elusive.
I was soon put in my place by Roger Baker who had our first specimen mullet of the year with a fish of 5lbs 5ozs. Joined up with him for an afternoons fishing and in 4 hours we had a dozen mullet to nearly 4 pounds on bread and 40 plus pollack on rubber worms. We both noticed how thin the mullet are this year but I am sure they will soon fatten up with all the rich feed about.
The brother Lane from Cork, Noel and Christy, dropped in for a couple of days fishing and they found thornback ray, doggies, huss and even a tub gurnard of about 1.5lbs.
June is a much busier month fishing wise so reports should be coming out weekly from now to the end of the season.
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COOTEHILL CHAMPIONSHIP FISHING FESTIVAL
The Cootehill Championship Fishing Festival is taking place from
26 - 30th September 2011
For Further Information: Cootehill Tourism
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Kings Angling client fishing with the
"Blástein"
Vestmanna
(May 2009)
 
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| NORWAY |
LAUKLINES, KATTFJORD
Monster Cod in 2012. Book now!
The fishing season for "Monster Cod" 2011 is now going to an end and we are now preparing and looking forward to the "Monster cod fishing" starting up in beginning of March 2012.
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Lauklines/Artic Fishing - 2011 end of season report |
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| KENYA |
| Fabulous Fishing with Hemingways Resort |
| We fish from July through to mid April. The southeast wind (Kusi) blows from mid March to sometime in November and is cooler than the northeast breeze (Kaskazi) which blows the rest of the time. The seas are warmer and calmer during the Kaskazi months. |
Fishing news 11th November 2011
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| B'SNEST fished by Gerardus Beugels got 2 sailfish tagged again, 1 Kobia fish 16kgs, a Wahoo and a dorado. He also hooked, fought and lost 1 Black and 1 Blue marlin all estimated about 60kgs and 45kgs respectivelly. |
Wednesday 09th November 2011
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Gerardus Beugels fishing on B'S NEST got 2 sailfish tagged and released, kingfish a wahoo and some dorado. |
Fishing 8th November 2011
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OL-JOGI fished by Graham Stevens and Paul Billings on a half day had yellowfin tuna, Dorado and Wahoo.WHITE BEAR with Steve and Lowenna Cooper returned with 5 yellow fin tuna. They had a Black Tip Shark released est 50kgs. DOUGLAS SOULSBY on Sea Storm 3 Wahoo and 1 Dorado. All boats fishing half day.
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Fishing 20th August |
OL JOGI out today with regulars Greg and Gale Brackenridge and they did not disappoint with a Black Marlin and 9 Sailfish tagged along with some mixed stuff. Good day, enjoyed by all. |
Fishing 18th August 2011
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Well, this season has us all very excited as the sailfish have arrived so incredibly early and in such huge numbers ,the like of which we have never seen before. Not sure why they are here but those fishing now are surely having a lot of fun. Best day so far this last couple of weeks out of Watamu was 23 Sailfish and they are within 10 minutes of the moorings!! Two of our Boats out today just for a few hours and they returned with 7 and 4 Sail tagged -- OL Jogi has had two Black Marlin in the last few days as well! We are REALLY looking forward to this and more regular updates will follow from now
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| Fishing 18th March 2011 |
The two big end of season Watamu tournaments went off very successfully and were extremely well supported.
The WSFC "FLY 540" sponsored Festival over the weekend of the 05th/06th March attracted 21 Boats and the social scene was impressive, to say the least! A total of 21 Sailfish/ 7 Striped Marlin and one Blue Marlin were tagged and SNARK came out the popular winner -- nice to see Adrian Paul back in action at sea instead of the office!
The main sponsor Aggreko "Friends of Kenya" day/night/day Tournament over 08/09th March also got 21 entries. The Kenya Navy came to the party by patrolling the area we intended to fish at night just in case any of our Somali friends wanted to join in but the weather Gods had other ideas and sent in a big swell/whipping wind on the afternoon of the first day and all but two Boats ran for cover for the night. Angus Pauls' NEPTUNE eventually came out as winners with 1 Black and 1 Striped Marlin and 6 Sailfish, closely followed by WHITE MISCHIEF with 2 Black Marlin and a Sailfish.
In total the Tournament competitors tagged 27 Sailfish (3 on Fly) / 7 Striped Marlin / 5 Black Marlin/ 2 Blue Marlin and 1 Broadbill Swordfish. Looking at the bar takings after the Prizegiving there is no doubt that serious celebrations followed!
Aggreko , in line with their Company policy, looked also to raise money for local charities and did so in style with hugely generous contributions from Jamie Shepherd and Dicky Evans amongst others and just under US $10,000 was collected. This money will be split between a local orphanage and to help set up a training school for up and coming Big game Fishing Boat crews.
A big thank you also to Steve Chance and Cost del Mar who kindly donated their fantastic sunglasses to all in the first 13 Boats entered and the top 9 Skippers.
Since then some good fish have shown up -- an 820lb Black Marlin on UNREEL and many in the 400 to 500 lb range seen finning and following. This middle of March is definitely our big Fish time and we need to get some strong anglers here to see what we can come up with.
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KALUM RIVER
Latest Fishing Report 2011
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August 11th
Just one day’s fishing on the Skeena river is all they could fit into their trip to B.C., but for father and son Eberhard and Martin from Germany and their friend Sören, it turned out to be a great one. They hooked a lot of fish and by the end of the day they had landed over a dozen Steelhead, Coho, Pinks and several trout. The next stop for the guys is Prince Rupert for some ocean fishing. Their Skeena river adventure far surpassed their expectations and they have said they will do their best to get back here as soon as they can.
August 9th
In the last two weeks we have landed some monster Chinook on the Skeena river. These powerful fish have given our guests some great fights, some were won but many were lost. With the Chinook taking over 200 yards of line it is a challenge to bring them to the bank. Most of the Chinook landed have been 30lb plus. Longinos Valesco travelled from Spain to catch a large Chinook and he was not disappointed when on his first day he landed one weighing 58lb. His grandson, Miguel, also caught a lot of salmon and had fun fighting some big Chum salmon. Wilson Kwong landed a 47lb Chinook, his biggest one so far, whilst his friend Masami Wakabayashi landed a Chinook of around 35lb. The smiles say it all!
August 7th
August is a great time to fish here for all five species of salmon and anglers also have the chance of catching Steelhead. Last year, Peter and Alan Rush from Virginia had some great fishing, and this year they returned with their cousin Matt Wiener. Our returning guest Matthew from the UK joined the boys for the week and what a week it was. We fished the Kalum, Skeena and Kitimat rivers and the anglers wrestled with several big Chinook and brought a lot of salmon to the bank. On their last day they fly fished on the Kitimat river and it was an action-packed day. Matthew hooked into over 250 fish, whilst Alan reported 180 hook-ups and Peter and Matt were into over a hundred each.
There were so many photos taken of their catches - here is just a few. Matt, who learnt to fly fish this week, said “I have never caught fish so big or so many fish in one day before. This was the most fun fishing I have ever had. I will definitely be back next year!” And we are sure his cousins will be joining him!
July 25th
The Skeena river is now producing Chinook, Sockeye, Coho and Pinks. As well as salmon we are now starting to catch Steelhead. The Kalum river has been fishing well for Chinooks and our guests are enjoying the option of fishing several different rivers during their stay.
In the next few weeks an angler has the chance to catch all five species of salmon, Steelhead, Cuthroat and Dolly Varden. Here are Mike and Wayne with a couple Chinook that they caught during their stay. |
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