ENNELL’S LAST DAY: On Saturday October 12th the trout season closed and competitions were held on Owel, Ennell and Derravaragh. It’s hard to fish all venues so I opted for Ennell along with my pal Marty Smith who was over from England for the last few days of the season. We certainly kept the best …
OWEL FUNDRAISING COMPETITION: Last Sunday on October 6th, Lough Owel Trout Preservation Association hosted their open trout fly-fishing competition with all proceeds going towards stocking Owel with quality trout. It was well supported with many anglers from right across Leinster, checking in at Tullaghan and Mullallys before the 11am start. The weigh-in and presentation took …
LENE/CHAIRMANS PAIRS: On Lough Lene the Chairman’s Pairs fly competition was held on Sunday 29th September. It proved a huge success, with John McGuire and Denis Goulding taking top rod with 2.64kg, 2nd was Alan Russell and Niall Maher with 1.66kg and 3rd was Stuart Killeen and Fergal Burke with 1.62kg. Also up for grabs …
Autumn International Lake of Menteith, Scotland September 20th 2019 Away Gold at Last. September 15th saw the team depart in the early hours of Sunday morning to Scotland for the Autumn International on the Lake of Menteith. In October 2018 the Team was picked for this match. As a result of the selection deliberations an experienced Team …
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RONNIE COX MEMORIAL COMPETITION: Last week we mentioned that well known angler Johnny Murray of the Downs had a fantastic win on Lough Conn recently. Johnny was fishing the late Ronnie Cox memorial competition, which is going from strength to strength and the organizers are already planning ahead for the next event. Ronnie was from …
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WHITELAKE RAINBOW CUP & BBQ: Whitelake club members in North Westmeath had a wonderful day out on Saturday 24th August and Noel McCabe sent in full results from this senior and junior competition. Some cracking rainbow trout were caught with Pat Finnigan of Duleek topping the senior section with a huge fish of 5lbs 4oz. …
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10 YEARS AND BACK ON THE MIDLAND LAKES: Thierry Marc from France was drifting across Ireland last week with his pal John McCarron of Malahide in Dublin. The lads had a wet few days in the west of Ireland and contacted me for a few hours pike fishing. I fished with Thierry 10 years back …
PATTI DOOLIN MEMORIAL SHIELD: Lough Owel Trout Preservation Association hosted the Patti Doolin Memorial Shield last Sunday in mixed weather conditions. There was a good turnout of anglers and the competition was fished from 11am-7pm, which is a long day lashing out flies in windy conditions. Still, the Owel anglers dug deep and Mullingar angler …
JIMMY NEA CUP: Ennell anglers ran the Jimmy Nea Cup last Friday night and a few nice trout were caught. Fishing was from 7pm-11pm and the presentation took place in HQ, Whitebridge Bay. Top rod was Mullingar angler Brendan Murray with a fine fish of 3lbs 6oz, 2nd was another townie, Niall Oakes with 2lbs …
THAT COD PICTURE: We have quite a few sea anglers drifting across Westmeath and they were gob smacked when I published the picture last week of an angler with a huge Cod. It came in from our good pal Stan Ryan of Ardmore SAC who has a few Mullingar members. Stan and his angling pals …
