T
he stormy, unsettled circumstances of late took a break this week with calmer and considerably milder autumnal climate prevailing for the previous few days. As water temperatures are nonetheless fairly excessive for the time of yr, these extra settled circumstances offered some high quality fishing for native and visiting anglers alike.
Beginning with pike fishing, twenty-one groups from all corners of the island of Eire fished the “Pike Grasp Eire” competitors final Sunday. This competitors is exclusive, as a result of as a substitute of happening on one competitors venue, it’s held on quite a few venues wherever in Eire, with anglers recording their fish in actual time on an app, downloaded prematurely. Sadly, circumstances on the day didn’t encourage the pike to feed exhausting, however a number of the groups did have some actually good fishing in the course of the competitors with group Palkozjia scooping first prize. Runners up have been group Reelax Predator Fishing leaving group Carlow Predator Angler in third place.
Bodo Funke of Angling Companies Eire based mostly in Boyle was in contact once more reporting on an glorious week’s pike motion for a trio from Italy with a number of pike over the 1 metre mark greatest at 106cm, whereas Kevin Lyons of Melview Fishing Lodge additionally despatched in an amazing report. Kevin hosted a bunch of French anglers for every week who loved some implausible pike fishing within the Longford space together with a substantial variety of one metre plus fish and lots of within the 90s. The fish of the journey, nevertheless, was caught by first-time customer Matthieu measuring 118cm and deserves to win our Catch of the Week.
Elsewhere, Limerick County Pike Anglers Affiliation determined to remain near house for the newest spherical of their winter league which was received by Tommy Williams with 32lb 6oz forward of Sam Brown with 31lb 7oz.
Over to coarse angling, the place a number of winter league matches have been fished over the previous week. Beginning within the North, the VDE Baggers common competitors hang-out, the Newry Canal, has been out of kinds of late, so that they determined to go for a brand new venue for the third spherical of their winter league. It was a call that paid off, with roach, skimmers and hybrids all feeding avidly. The tightly contested match was received by Artur Bojczewski with a bag of 5.45kg forward of Aaron Nabc Hutchman (5.34kg) and Grzegorz Bojczewski (4.75kg).
In the meantime, Munster Coarse Anglers efficiently kicked off their winter league in Portuma on the weekend, whereas eleven younger anglers from throughout the provinces turned out final Saturday for the All Eire Youth Feeder Championships held on Lough Gowna in Co. Cavan. The fishing was fairly robust on the day, however a bonus 1.5kg bream secured the 3-hour match for this yr’s Beneath 15 champion Markas Cmuckas who completed with 1.700kg. The title for the Beneath 25’s went to Sarunas Zenkovas who received his match with 9 fish for 1.475kg.
Concluding our coarse fishing information for this week we wish to announce that Oakland’s Winter Matches will begin Sunday, third November. All matches can be run as open matches with an non-compulsory league for anybody who’s .
For a superb whereas sea angling has been hampered by unfavourable sea and climate circumstances…subsequently it’s nice to see some encouraging sea angling reviews coming in from round our coasts. Beginning within the south, Jim Clohessy reviews of heart-stopping blue shark motion whereas fishing for ling over some wrecks in East Cork. Skipper Sean Maguire fishing out of Carrigaholt, Co. Clare had a bunch of Latvian anglers out on the weekend, and so they discovered loads of pollack feeding effectively, most likely fattening up forward of winter.
Additional north in Donegal Bay, Killybegs Fishing Journeys made use of a break within the climate focusing on extra bluefin tuna, whereas on the east coast Package Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters had a bunch from Howth SAC out with him for a membership competitors. The fortunate membership members hit the water simply because the spurdogs have been lively and feeding exhausting, which resulted in a day of “mayhem”, with practically 500 fish dropped at the boat.
There was additionally some good shore fishing reported from the at all times lively Killybegs Mariners together with good numbers of autumn Donegal bass. Shore anglers will certainly flip their consideration to the Wexford coast subsequent week because the Youths and Juniors World Championships in Shore Angling are simply days away. Some groups have already arrived in Wexford the place world stage anglers from 9 nations are out training alongside the shoreline, preparing for the massive occasion, which launches on November 2nd.
Dan O’Neill is again with the tenth instalment of his River Whispers collection. There’s rather a lot on this week’s version, so we’ve cut up it into 2 articles. Learn a complete run down from Dan on tips on how to arrange for flyfishing, with some nice data for rookies and improvers, adopted by an interview with worldwide angler David O’Donovan, and all about lure fishing for perch, together with an interview with Marcin Kantor right here.
Lastly, we wish to draw your consideration to the newest episode of the favored Eire on the Fly Podcast. This time, Tom and Daire overview this yr’s salmon season and who higher to speak to than one of the vital educated salmon anglers there’s, Paddy McDonnell.
Different information
Irish Fly Honest
The 12th annual Irish Fly Honest and Worldwide Angling Present is again in Fermanagh this month. This prestigious occasion can be held on the fabulous four-star Killyhevlin Lodge and grounds overlooking majestic Lough Erne. Dates are set for 16th and the 17th of November and doorways open at 10am each days.
Salmon Logbooks
We wish to take this chance to remind all salmon and sea trout anglers to return their angling logbooks (setting out their fishing and catch report) and any unused gill tags.
Agus anois an aimsir…
Staying largely cloudy tonight with mist and a few patches of drizzle, though most areas will keep dry. Lowest temperatures of seven to 10 levels with gentle south to southeast or variable winds. Saturday can be largely cloudy with simply restricted sunny breaks. It can usually be dry with just some spots of drizzle. Highest temperatures of 12 to fifteen levels in gentle and variable winds. Excessive strain will proceed to dominate for the the subsequent few days bringing usually delicate and settled climate. Maybe a change is in retailer for Tuesday with a band of rain more likely to transfer in throughout southwestern counties by the afternoon, whereas cloudy circumstances persist elsewhere. Highest temperatures of 13 to 16 levels.
Protected fishing to all and tight strains, particularly right here in Eire.
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