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Pike Angling Update dated Wednesday February 24th, 2010
Photo: Photo last week courtesy of Mick Flanagan, Angling Correspondent, Mullingar. DETAILS OF THE LOUGH REE PIKE ANGLING FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED Water levels have dropped significantly and fishable almost everywhere now, but it's very chilly and uncomfortable out of doors. Mick Flanagan was out and about in the midlands and captured some nice photos of catches on Lough Derravaragh, including the feature photo this week. Dave Houghton of Active Irish Angling announces the details of the new Lough Ree Pike Angling Festival. This a new event and anglers will have a chance to share in a staggering cash prize fund that could total over €40,000. See main report for details. Following correspondence from anglers, the Board at their recent Board meeting decided to amend the one rod rule to permit two rods for Coarse and Pike angling on our mixed stock fisheries in the Midland Fisheries Group of waters. The one rod rule continues to apply to trout angling waters in this group. Details are below. We hope the weather will get a little milder and hope to have lots of action to report in two weeks time. Finally, The Board will be present at the Hooked Live Show in Citywest next weekend, we hope to meet you there. TIGHT LINES FOR 2010.UPPER SHANNON
Bodo Funke, Angling Services Ireland, Boyle, Co Roscommon http://www.anglingservicesireland.com/ reports. Monday, February 8th, 2010
After what was (and partly still is) an
unusually cold winter, we finally managed to get out and boat the
first few pike of the year. No monsters as yet, but at least some
double figures. A half days fishing yesterday yielded 7 pike on
lures with two of them over the 10lbs. mark. and three more just
below it. Not too bad considering it's still pretty cold and the
water temp currently is only at 3.9 degree Celsius. Although this
looks to drop again during the week as another cold spell with sharp
frost is promised.
No new reports. See Angling blog for latest reports
http://www.anglingservicesireland.blogspot.com/
"Water levels are fine in the area at the moment. I had one nice fish last week from a lake in the area, a beautiful fish that fell to a popped up Mackerel. " Apologies about the quality of the picture. Kevin Lyons, MELVIEW LODGE GUESTHOUSE, Drumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Co Longford Tel : 003534345061 Mob: Email: info@melviewlodge.com Web: http://www.melviewlodge.com No report this period. MID SHANNON AREA
Water levels have come back to normal but few Pike anglers out.
LOUGH REE INTERNATIONAL PIKE ANGLING
FESTIVAL 2010
FEDERATION OF PIKE ANGLING CLUBS NEWS John Chambers reports
The venues for the 2010/11 Kingspan National Pike Championships have
been more or less selected. We need permission to fish a couple of
venues. Exact dates and venues will be firmed up later. WATCH
THIS SPACE 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
Photo: Andrew Robinson had great sport in the River Suck Valley with this Pike on Tuesday February 16th. Further local 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. Oisin Mac Aodhagain from Dublin reports on a recent fishing trip on the Shannon at Portumna "I fished the Portumna area on the 18th and 19th of February. I had initially planned on starting some early coarse fishing however after a day without a nibble I stopped. I put it down to the recent very cold weather. From here I went spinning and dead-baiting for pike. I sat for two days trying several dead-baits such as Roach, Smelt and Mackerel. No luck what-so-ever. It is important to note that I fished the hot-spots in Portumna and still no luck. Very disappointing but its just more experience. There were no anglers about the area at all. Water levels are still high but the difference can be seen between a few weeks ago, give it 3 more weeks and it should be back to normal please god. 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 Water levels are dropping fast on Lough Ree. There's very little Pike angling activity reported on the lake or lower River Inny. ShRFB reports for the MULLINGAR AREA Mick Flanagan, Angling correspondent and photographer Mullingar reports for the Midlands. Mobile: 087-2797270 Report dated February 16th, 2010
PIKE ANGLING ON LOUGH DERRAVARAGH... This week anglers enjoyed some good fishing. Lough Ree produced a few nice pike for Johnny Corcoran early in the week and it won’t be long before we are gearing up for the Lough Ree Pike Festival in April 2010. Mark Keane from Athy and Tommy Buggy from Kilkenny were back in town, as was top competition Angler Colm Cash from Clane. Colm had the family down on Derravaragh and we got a cracking photo of himself and the kids.
PIKE ON REE.... I was on Ree last week and met Mullingar angler Johnny Corcoran. In the coming weeks Ree will be well fished and in April the Lough Ree International Pike Festival will take place. Top prize for the heaviest pike is 3,000 Euro we are told so a big entry is expected. Naturally we will keep you posted on this super pike competition. Its a boat angling competition taking place over 3-days Wednesday 14th – Friday 16th. Johnny was checking out a few Hot Spots and caught a few good pike including this double that I photographed. LOVE IS IN THE AIR ON THE LAKES....
It’s the time of year our waterfowl on the lakes and rivers pair off for the
coming breeding season. Last week on Derravaragh many Mallard were in pairs and
checking out suitable nesting sights. While spinning in front of the yellow
River at Coolure I seen a very unusual coloured Mallard Duck with two Drakes
eyeing her up. It was a magical sight and lucky enough I was quick enough to get
a photo of this beautiful coloured Mallard. That's it folks for another week. Hopefully in next weeks Angling Focus we will feature a few Midlanders with their first trout of the season on Corrib. Also news on that prize from Angling Mad Angling centre. With the trout season coming on line, I will miss some pike action, but we will keep you posted on coming events and super catches. Once again the phone camera photos are appearing and it’s great to see your prized catch, but the quality from some camera phones is not good enough for print. Tight Lines till next week. Dermot Killeen Shannonbridge Tel 090 96 74112 Email: derry.killeen@gmail.com reports for SHANNONBRIDGE area Shannonbridge Fishing Report to February 17th, 2010... Some heavy showers on Tuesday followed by a bright and sunny Ash Wednesday. Floods have eased back well but there must be lots of water still around. Swans were swimming in the floodwater a few days ago but now the drains are just slightly overfilled. Had a phone call from a Dublin angler yesterday enquiring if the access road to the Hot Water Stretch was passable. He is going to try his luck. In the past week a few pike anglers have been fishing but did not hear any results. LOWER SHANNON AREA
No reports. Fished the region last week ! - Like to send us a fishing report for our next update! If you have fished any of our fisheries over the past week and wish to send us in your fishing report to feature on our next update, please CLICK HERE and complete our online form or simply send us an email with your contact particulars and catch details and attach a photo if you have one to Brian Mc Manus Email: info@shannon-fishery-board.ie
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