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Pike Angling Update dated Wednesday April 28th, 2010
ANGLING CONDITIONS MUCH IMPROVED FOR PIKE FISHING WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES AND LOWER WATER LEVELS The Water levels are back to normal for the time of year on the River Suck. Four anglers reported that conditions were ideal for Pike fishing. Bodo Funke reports that the water temperatures in the local lakes and rivers in the Upper Shannon have risen (currently between 9 and 13.5 degrees Celsius) and the pike are beginning to be more active. Spawning is now more or less completed in most waters and the pike are getting hungry. It is now only two and a half weeks to go until this years leg of Predatortour which kicks off on Loug Derg. Anglers turned out in huge numbers to honour the late Stephen Battle in the Stephen Battle Memorial Cup Pike Competition on Lough Derravaragh. Pike of over 20lbs were in the top results, Michael Flanagan reports. We catch up with catches from around Shannonbridge, Dermot Killeen reports TIGHT LINES! UPPER SHANNON
Bodo Funke, Angling Services Ireland, Boyle, Co Roscommon http://www.anglingservicesireland.com/ reports. Predatortour 2010 - Lough Derg,
Ireland See Angling blog for latest reports http://www.anglingservicesireland.blogspot.com/ BOYLE AND DISTRICT ANGLING CLUB NEWS Reports see:
http://boyleanglers.blogspot.com/
or contact Club Sec Jane Suffin, Mob: 086 8301261 for further info.
No Pike report this period. Kevin Lyons, MELVIEW LODGE GUESTHOUSE, Drumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Co Longford Tel : 003534345061 Mob: Email: info@melviewlodge.com Web: http://www.melviewlodge.com Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge has a group Pike fishing guests in at the moment. We will catch up on their catches in next weeks update. MID SHANNON AREA
There is some pleasure Pike angling taking place on the Shannon in the Banagher
area. No big Pike reported.
FEDERATION OF PIKE ANGLING CLUBS NEWS John Chambers will report on the next Kingspan Qualifers. Watch this space for updates in May Next Venues are:
May - Killywilly Lake near Ballyconnell. More info See Fed website and visit their forum: http://www.angling-in-ireland.com ShRFB reports for the RIVER SUCK VALLEY - Mid River Suck Water levels are back to normal for the time of year. Four anglers reported that conditions were ideal for Pike fishing. The best fish of the week was landed by Leitrim angler, at 13lbs. The had other smaller fish to 4lbs. For local angling info contact Mr John Ryan, Assistant Fisheries Inspector Tel: 094 96 40103 Mob: 087 2536064 and John Devaney, Assistant Fisheries Inspector, Roscommon for the lower River Suck 087 2266735. ShRFB reports for the River Shannon at PORTUMNA - Mike Murray , MURRAY'S B&B, Derryhiney, Portumna reports No Pike fishing reported. ShRFB reports for INNY BAY B&B - fishing at TOM FOXES ANGLING STRETCH and lower RIVER INNY Tommy Foxe Mob: 087 9960173 for enquiries and boat hire Some anglers are reporting a few Pike while pleasure fishing around the local islands, no large fish though. ShRFB reports for the MULLINGAR AREA Mick Flanagan, Angling correspondent and photographer Mullingar reports for the Midlands. Mobile: 087-2797270.
STEPHEN BATTLE MEMORIAL CUP: Anglers turned out in huge numbers to honour the late Stephen Battle. Stephen was a top class coarse angler and featured regularly over the years in angling focus. Carp and pike were some of his favourite fish species, and it was fitting last Sunday on Derravaragh that one of his good angling pals Barry Darby won. Barry had a cracking day along with his good lady Sandra Bardon. The pair boated up on 13 pike including some fine doubles. Their best fish rattled the scales at 20lbs 15oz. Anthony Egan gave Barry a close run and produced a beauty of 20lbs4oz, and Anthony Scally is still keeping in touch on the competition scene and landed a fish of 18lbs 6oz to take 3rd spot. Many fish were caught and the junior anglers had a ball with Longford lad Jason McDermott taking 1st place with a pike of over 14lbs. Young Alan Orme finished 2nd with a fine pike of 8lbs 5oz and Mickey Moffatt taking 3rd place with 3lbs 5oz.. All junior anglers received a great prize on the day. In the ladies section Sandra Bardon topped the day with a fine pike of 15lbs. Johnny Corcoran won the mystery prize and it was a beautiful St Croix Rod valued at €300. The presentation took place in the Mullingar Park Hotel, where all anglers and guests were treated to superb light refreshments. Competition organizers Johnny Keating and Barry Darby would like to thanks all who supported the competition, and the Battle family for presenting prizes. A special thanks to John Joe Nevin our Olympic Boxer for taking time out to present the Junior prizes, and weigh masters for the competition Alan Broderick and his son Nick.
INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE NEWS: Just received news of a Public Forum
taking place in Tullamore Court Hotel on April 28th.Its a 6-30 starting time.
Invasive species are causing damage to our Lakes, Canals, and Rivers. Experts
from the C.F.B. will talk on ways to stop the spread of such species. Here in
the Midlands out most common Invasive specie is the Zebra Mussel, which is still
very much at large on Derravaragh, and Ree. Shannonbridge Fishing Report to April 28th, 2010... The river level at the quay wall at Shannonbridge is 2.8 metres which is two metres down on the quay wall. After the inspector moved the boats moored for the winter from the floating jetty there were five boats moored there last evening. Weather has been mostly sunshine for the past three weeks apart from some rain on last Saturday and a light shower on Sunday. Wind directions have been varying in recent days with an easterly wind today bracing but not too cold.
Paul Kerring, Ballinasloe caught a 9lbs pike on the Suck on 12th
April using dead herring. Fred Flannery Ballinasloe fished the Suck
on 14th April using a pollen to catch an 8.5 lbs pike in sunny and
bright conditions. Pauric Beades Dublin fished the Hot Water stretch
on 27th March in overcast conditions using a dead roach to catch a
16.5lbs pike which he returned alive. Liudlach Stefan from Bavaria
fished the Shannon on 26th April using a white rubber fish catching
five pike best 85 cm. The previous day he caught two pike 60cm and a
baby which he returned. Shirley Barker from Grimsby is on a hire
cruiser fishing holiday. On 26th April Shirley caught four pike on
the Shebeen stretch using deadbait. Returned alive. LOWER SHANNON AREA
No reports. Peter Gleeson 'HOOKED ON FISH', Angling correspondent for the Nenagh Guardian newspaper, reports. No Pike Angling reports this week. HERMAN MOLENAAR Web: http://www.fisherman.nl Email: herman@fisherman.nl Tel: + 353 (0)87 985 74 91. Main Street, Killaloe PIKE FISHING ON LOUGH DERG THIS SEASON, REPORT DATED APRIL 14th, 2010 April is always a difficult month to fish for pike, mostly because of the water temperature which influences the spawning time. Do they start early or late this year, and are they yet to be caught with lures?
This winter was very cold, so cold that even some parts of Lough Derg were frozen; I’ve never seen this before! However, we went fishing with the first spring guests, this time from France. For them, fishing on a lake of this size is extraordinary challenging and even more dangerous because of the rocks, especially the ones you can’t see on the surface. Never the less, on the first day, one of the anglers caught his personal best pike, a 97 cm fish of around 18 pounds, but the following days it was hard work to catch only 3 to 4 pike per day. On the last day the hard work was rewarded with a 102 cm pike of about 22 pounds.
We have been casting a lot using the Jerkbait technique but
pike proved very hard to hook. Neither trolling brought us
the fish we would have wanted although we weren’t very
surprised with a water temperature of 8°c.
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