Its full steam ahead as we set our sights on September, yes it’s only a few days as we drift into the last month of the trout fishing on some of our local lakes. Anglers on Lene and Ennell produced some fine trout and on the coarse angling scene Deckie Byrne was on song last Sunday during a match competition. I met a few lads from up North on Lene and they were having a ball of a time on this cracking fishery. Unfortunately its one of our first lakes to close and trout fishing will finish on September 30th. Hard to believe we are thinking of end of season competitions. This week we will also take a look back at the recent Flextec Team Championships fished on lene on Saturday August 14th. The Rathmolyon Pike and Sea Angling club members are heading out to sea this weekend, and Ennell anglers will fish the Lough Ennell Perpetual Cup on Sunday next August 29th. It’s certainly all happening in the Angling World.
ENNELL PERPETUAL CUP. On Sunday next L.E.T.P.A. will host the Lough Ennell Perpetual Cup trout fly fishing competition. This is one of the clubs top trout competitions, and long time Ennell Angler Con Hope presented the Cup to L.E.T.P.A. Over the years some super trout were produced during this event and hopefully next Sunday it will take a cracker to win. A lot depends on the weather conditions and if fish are on the move. In recent weeks some good trout have being caught late into the evening on the fly, and daytime anglers are picking up some trout on the trawl. Local angler Tosh Grimes of Ginnell Terrace is having a fantastic season on Ennell, and produced 5 good fish last Sunday on the trawl. Earlier in the week Tony English and John Dooner boated 4 fish on the fly on an evening session. The competition will start and finish at Whitebridge Bay. It’s an 11am start and new members are welcome to join L.E.T.P.A. on the morning of the competition. Check out our photo of fly life on Ennell last Sunday night.
LENE ANGLERS. Lough Lene Anglers are having some fantastic sport catching rainbow trout in recent days. The lake will close for trout fishing come September 30th, so get down and give it a last before its over. I fished the lake on Saturday along with Mick McCormack and we boated quite a few trout on the fly. Also out that day were some anglers from Up North and they were really enjoying their fishing in the Midlands. Quite a few boats will be out in the coming weeks as the season comes to a close. The last competition is the Chairman’s Pairs event, and it will be fished on Sunday September 26th. Naturally we will keep you posted on this.
FLEXTEC COMPETITION. On Saturday August 14th anglers from all over Ireland descended on Lene and competed in the 4-person team competition. On the day local club Brosna Anglers won with 2,975 points, 2nd Galway/Corrib team A 2,350 points, and 3rd Mallow Game Anglers team with 2,100 points. Top individual was Brosna Angler Denis Goulding with 2,300 points, and longest fish was caught by Peter Roche of Conn/Cullin anglers and it measured 56cms. All fish were measured and released and a points system was in place.
MULLINGAR COARSE ANGLERS. On Sunday last August 22nd Mullingar Coarse Anglers hosted a match competition. Mullingar angler Deckie Byrne won the match with some nice fish including this cracking photo of a roach. Ned O’ Reilly finished 2nd with John Keegan from Killucan finishing 3rd. Our thanks to Ned for the photo of Deckie and one of his prize winning fish.
RATHMOLYON PIKE AND SEA ANGLING CLUB. These merry bunch of anglers are really hooked on angling, and next weekend head for Westport. The club members are fishing the two-day sea fishing, Ned and Jim McManus Annual Memorial competition. Once again based at the splendid Helm Hotel in Westport. The Helm is the centre of Sea angling in Westport and the White Seahorse custom built boat is the business out on the high sea. Just down from the Helm you will find the A Shore Thing Angling Centre where Doug Priddy will give you top tips on catching your chosen species. Some of our top sea anglers from Mullingar will be heading down, and we wish them and the Rathmolyon Anglers all the best for the weekend. More pics and contacts for Whitesea Horse on special feature page.
COSTA BLANCA ANGLER. Yes we certinally meet all sorts in the Angling World and on Monday of this week I met Steve Bates who for the past 10 years has being living in Costa Blanca in Spain. Steve is a friend of my shooting pal Seamus Hennessey and is over for a few weeks with his good lady on holidays. Originally from Cambridge in England he has not fished for freshwater fish for some time, that we sorted out last Monday. We dropped into Collinstown Village and picked up a day ticket for Steve which is mighty value at €15. The lake is club controlled and is teeming with top quality trout, perch, and some cracking pike. On the day we trawled in very blustery conditions and the heavy showers that crossed Lene were unbelievable. In the distance we could see the rain building up and from time to time I said to Steve Hood up, it will only last a few minutes. It was incredible. After the down pours, the sun would burst through and we would be baked in the wet suits. On the day we boated six trout, 3 pike and one perch, plus we hooked and lost quite a few more fish. Steve is not returning to Costa Blanca till September 1st, so hopefully we will have another day quite soon on one of our Midland top waterways. I might have a go at getting him a good double figure pike next week. Watch this space.
