The Lakes and Rivers are all over the shop with high water, and the spell of cold weather has really affected the feeding habits of our predator fish. Mind you last weekend the water temperature was just below 4-degree Celsius, which was actually warmer than the air temperature some early mornings on the lakes. Last …
There was a few hard nights frost last week, as you are well aware and the water temperatures dropped very fast. Derravaragh has dropped a little and the river Inny is in good shape, but catching fish proved quite tough. Ennell did produce a few small pike and perch last weekend, but it was bitter …
It was hard going last weekend, with high water levels and the first good blast of frost had temperatures plummeting on our waterways. The rivers are in flood, and news of some trout starting to head up river to spawn has reaches us. The lakes are also quite high and if you have not taken …
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The winter pike fishing is in full swing, and despite the huge volume of floodwater some cracking pike are being caught on lures. Last Sunday on Ree the lake was a bit discolored and the pike were reluctant to come on the feed. Still it took a 10lbs fish to make the winning enclosure. Earlier …
FishTalk.tv is up and running from its studios in Crookedwood here in Westmeath and Clontarf in Co Dublin. The weekly on line sport fishing show is catching on big time with anglers, and I met some of the FishTalk .tv team last week in their Crookedwood studios. It was certainly a busy week pushing out …
We are getting a bit of bad weather across the Midlands, and fresh floods made it difficult for anglers last weekend. Still some cracking pike and perch were caught on our Midland lakes and rivers. All going well the River Inny will be up a bit, and soon I can get down to Lough Iron …
We had a few choppy days recently here on our Midland lakes and rivers. I met quite a few anglers drifting along the River Inny, and they were having some fun catching good pike, and some colorful perch. Also on the pike I.F.I. Paul Burke Angling Information officer was back on Westmeath waters. This time …
It’s all over now on the brown trout scene as our lakes and rivers closed on Sunday October 12th. It was busy on the competition scene with Owel running their Stocking fundraising competition; Ennell had a sweep Stake competition on the last day. Derravaragh Anglers were also in action and had competition on Saturday 11th …
Its all about trout this week, and we have some cracking photographs of beautiful fish from Owel and Mount Dalton.Mount Dalton is really becoming an Anglers Trout Paradise and its nesting in the hills near the village of Rathconrath.On Owel we met Gary Jacobsen of Lower Hutt in new Zealand, and he has a “REEL” …
Its certainly looking good for the coming Peter & Murrough season as we settle into July. This time of year some super trout start to feed late into the night, and the next few weeks local and visiting anglers will latch onto some beautiful fish. Last weekend I ventured out to check the evening rise, …
