MIDLAND PIKE ANGLERS: Last Sunday the Midland Pike Anglers club members hosted a boat competition on Lough Boderg. This is a popular, permit free venue for pike angling clubs and is on the Shannon system with access at Dromod in Co. Leitrim. It’s not a million miles away and you would easily get there from …
THE FRENCH CONNECTION: Last week, Sebastian Traineau and his family from Givrand in France were holidaying across the midlands. I hooked up with Sabastian and his son Jules for a days fishing and we had some wonderful sport catching many perch. It has been a long time since I saw a young angler so excited …
OWEL PLEASURE ANGLERS: I meet some great characters from time to time in the angling world and our midland anglers are up there with the best. Charlie Greville, now a townie and ex-army man, originally from Killucan has his bread buttered on both sides. Charlie loves his bit of fishing and his wife Helen drops …
DOONER IS TOP ROD: Ollie Dooner was the popular winner of the Lakeland Anglers end of season competition last Sunday October 2nd. On the day, anglers ventured out on Owel and Ennell, with some cracking trout being presented at the weigh-in in Caffrey’s Lounge at 8pm. Derravaragh was included in the Lakeland competition, but no …
The Leinster Qualifier was held on Lough Owel on the 1st of October, fishing was very good on the lake 3 weeks before the competition, with great catches from the likes of James Fagan, Brendan Murray, Andy Boyle and Paddy Ward. Fish were being caught all over the lake on a variety of tactics from pulling …
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CRACKING PIKE ON THE FLY: Last week we mentioned that my pal Jimmy Murray was back over from Queens in New York and we were on a mission to catch some big pike on the fly. This we did in style and Jimmy had pike up on 20lbs on flies tied by himself. The fish …
O’MALLEY CUP: Over 30 anglers lashed out across Lough Ennell last Sunday for the O’Malley Cup fly fishing competition. Conditions were quite good with plenty of early morning rain, clearing later, and a nice breeze at times kept the boats drifting along. On the day I teamed up with Ciaran Newman of Lynn Cross and …
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REE BEAUTY: If you are planning a trip to Lough Ree for a bit of trout fishing, now is the time to set sail. Ree, like some of our other midland lakes, will close for the trout fishing on September 30th, which is only a few weeks away. Recently, Athlone angler Steve Turner produced a …
GOOGLE LADS: Our pals from Google were back drifting across the midlands recently and had a lovely day trolling. Arseny Ivanov of St Peterburg, Pavel Pimshin of Volgograd and Baur Sauranbek of Kazakhstan caught some lovely perch and trout on a variety of small lures, including rainbow trout colours and fire tiger lures. These are …
ENNELL CUP: We had a lovely day out on Lough Ennell last Sunday as we fished the Lough Ennell Perpetual Cup. This fly-fishing competition always draws a good turnout of anglers and this year was no different. Conditions were mixed, with bright sunshine and a little cloud cover at times. I personally saw little or …
