May 5th, 2010 - Archived Pike Fishing Update for Ireland's Shannon Region

Photo: Lough Ree recently- this huge Pike of 27.5lbs caught and released by Thomas Moran.

Pike angling conditions are good as we write and Pike fishing has been lively. A party of seven Italian anglers had success on Lough na Blaithi over the last two days, fish up to 80cm. Allain from France was back in Ireland for his annual two week fishing holiday, staying at Melview Lodge in Longford. What a two weeks it was with plenty of Pike caught to 21lbs. Regular contributor Stephen Gibbons had fish to 13lbs on the River Suck. Mick Flanagan, angling correspondent reports on the RTE angling feature on Lough Ree on Eco Eye and reports on other local news from the midlands. One of the highlights of the week was the excellent Pike fishing on Lough Derravaragh for a party of seven Italian anglers who returned 17 pike to 18lbs on Saturday and followed up on Sunday with 60 more pike to over 20lbs, all released. Lough Ree has also been throwing up some great fish, including this 27.5lb fish featured here. A party of 4 French anglers, regular clients of angling guide Kevin Grimes from Killaloe, had an excellent weeks pike fishing in the week to May 1st. They caught a total of 105 pike. Prospects look promising again for the weekend. TIGHT LINES!

Bodo Funke, Angling Services Ireland, Boyle, Co Roscommon http://www.anglingservicesireland.com/ reports.

Fishing update - April 30th.
" We were out on one of the local lakes this morning, water temperature today is 12.3C. Only a few small fish to 5lbs showed up taking jerk baits. The x-buster in perch colour worked best today"

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BOYLE AND DISTRICT ANGLING CLUB NEWS

No recent reports published.

Reports see: http://boyleanglers.blogspot.com/ or contact Club Sec Jane Suffin, Mob: 086 8301261 for further info.

Brian Bohan CHAFLYNNS COTTAGE & GUIDING SERVICE MOHILL reports on angling in the upper Shannon region around MOHILL and CARRICK ON SHANNON

A party of seven Italian anglers had some nice pike on Lough na Blaithi over the last two days, fish up to 80cm. There are lots of French and Belgian anglers around also with good reports. Pike are active at the moment.

Kevin Lyons, MELVIEW LODGE GUESTHOUSE, Drumlish Road, Clonrollagh, Co Longford Tel : 003534345061 Mob: Email: info@melviewlodge.com Web: http://www.melviewlodge.com

Photo: Mick from Dublin

Paul and Mick from Dublin who are regulars to Melview Lodge in Longford had good Pike fishing despite some bad weather at times. Dead baits proved the best choice with fish to 11lbs caught.

Photo: Paul from Dublin
Allain from France was back in Ireland for his annual two week fishing holiday, staying at Melview Lodge in Longford. What a two weeks it was with plenty of Pike caught to 21lbs. Kevin himself was guiding Allain every day and managed to get into the action landing lots of Pike to double figures, Allain has already booked for next year and is looking forward to returning to Ireland.

Photo: Allain from France celebrates with a cigar.

Photo: Kevin Lyons of Melview Lodge Longford with a nice double.

MID SHANNON AREA

The ShRFB reports for Ray Duthie Old Forge Banagher, Bait Stockist, Tackle and ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER Tel: 057 9151504. BANAGHER area this week.

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.

Next Venues are:

May - Killywilly Lake near Ballyconnell.
June - River Suck
July - Shannon, possibly Castleconnell, date may change
August - Erne at Belturbet,
September - Mayo venue yet to be clarified
October - Lough Acannon in Co. Cavan
November - Rossmore Park Lakes
December - Ross lake near Castleblaney
January - Lough Sillan

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

Report from regular contributor Stephen Gibbons

"Fished the Shannon on Monday the 26th April. Water levels are back down to normal now. Fishing was fairly quiet and the day was very sunny. We had 7 pike between us and a good few roach on the whip also. The biggest pike fell to myself at 13lbs and Joe Donnelly had a 9lb fish. Ronan Mullen also had one of 7lbs.

On the bank holiday Monday we were out again and I had this 17lb pike."

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.

John Cole reports:

Today didn't go quite as well with Dave, Keith and I catching a few Roach along with the odd Perch, Hybrids and Gudgeon. Keith did have a good 2lb Roach which was taken by a lovely Pike. Dave later caught a 28lb pike.
John Coles
Web: www.innyangling.net

ShRFB reports for the MULLINGAR AREA

Lough Derravarragh: There was some excellent Pike fishing on Lough Derravaragh this week. On Saturday 1st May seven Italian anglers returned 17 pike – heaviest 18lbs. On Sunday 2nd May the same group caught 60 pike to over 20 lbs, all were released. Other pleasure anglers averaged two pike per boat on Sunday.

Mick Flanagan, Angling correspondent and photographer Mullingar reports for the Midlands. Mobile: 087-2797270.

ECO EYE ON REE: Last September we spend a few hours on Ree with Tanya Stuart of Eco Eye fame. The last program ran last Tuesday evening on R.T.E. and it featured some fishing on Ree. It created a buzz in the Midlands but some viewers missed the program, and it can be viewed on http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1071675 . Hopefully we will see more angling slots coming on our National TV channels. I always said angling is a huge sport, and is worth its weight in gold to the Tourism sector.

PIKE SCENE: I spent a day on Ennell last week with Paul O'Callaghan of Angling World. Paul has one of Ireland's top Angling Centres situated in Navan. We boated 3 pike and got a few more hits. The weather conditions were bad, and we took a real beating from the wind. Paul will be back in town soon, and next time we will get a picture of him in action. If you fancy checking out his angling centre at http://www.anglingworld.ie .

GLORE WINNERS: On Glore Joe O'Donnell won the recent club pike competition with a pike of 7lbs 9oz. Peter Smith finished 2nd, with young Roisin Smith taking 3rd spot. The club are planning more pike competitions in the coming weeks, and all going well we will hook up with the Glore Anglers.

CONTACT DETAILS. MICK 087-2797270 or e-mail Mick@midlandangling.com

Dermot Killeen Shannonbridge Tel 090 96 74112 Email: derry.killeen@gmail.com reports for SHANNONBRIDGE area

Shannonbridge Fishing Report to May 4th, 2010...

The river level has dropped from 2.8 last week to 2.6 metres this week. Weather has been fine with a few showers.

John Keegan Killucan fished the River Suck on 16th April hooking a hybrid while fishing with a 16 hook,4lb line in the middle depth 13 ft. As he played the hybrid a 12 lb pike attacked it and held on. John landed the pike and returned it alive. John again fished the Suck on 23 April with float/maggot and caught 7lbs of Roach and hybrids in a three hour session.

Ian Culikers from Holland fished River Shannon on 1st April using dead bait to catch a 61cm pike which he returned alive.

John Phillips from Wales fished the Shannon on 3rd May using dead bait to catch an 8 lb Pike and two 1lb Perch while fishing alongside Tony and Terry.

Tom Corbett Ballydangan fished the Shannon downstream of the village bridge in the shallow waters opposite Lacks House using small plug baits to catch two pike weighing 2lbs each, fishing from his boat. Young Luke Corbett fished with his father Tom and caught a 9 ounce baby pike. All were returned alive.

LOWER SHANNON AREA

TJ O'Brien, TJ's ANGLING CENTRE KILLALOE Tel: 061 376009 Mob 087 8108225 reports for the Lower Shannon, Lough Derg and East Clare Lakes

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

We will catch up next week on Herman's Pike angling party who are fishing on Derg this week. Join us in next weeks update.

KEVIN GRIMES, KILLALOE ANGLING GUIDE REPORTS ...

A party of 4 French anglers, regular clients of local angling guide Kevin Grimes, had an excellent weeks pike fishing in the week to May 1st. They caught a total of 105 pike. Patrick Duflos caught several over 5kgs and his best was a beauty of 120cm weighing 10kgs. Pike were caught by a variety of lures on Lough Derg and East Clare lakes. All fish were returned alive.

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