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Game Angling & Fisheries
News Update dated
Wednesday October 17th, 2007
Photo: Michael Flanagan, Mullingar with a
nice end of season Ennell trout caught in
the competition - photo courtesy of the captor
TROUT ANGLING SEASON
ENDS ON A LIVELY NOTE ON OWEL
The trout angling season has ended for
another year. It was a good finale with lots of action. Ennell was somewhat
disappointing contrary to expectations but Owel did not disappoint
and most anglers expressed their satisfaction with the fishing.
Catch up on all these stories in our main report. This ends
the Game angling update for another season. We will feature any
important fisheries news updates, so return from time to time to see
what's new. TIGHT LINES!
UPPER SHANNON
LOUGH SHEELIN
Three visiting anglers Andrew Browne
and friend Bob Presley recorded 10 trout to the close day October
12th, best 6lbs, flies used were Bibio, Dabblers, dry sedges. All
fish were released. Michael Kelly L.S.T.P.A. recorded 20 fish over
4 trips, best 2 fish were 2.5lbs on dry fly. Local angler John
Farley had 1 good fish of 6lbs on sedge. 10 other pleasure anglers
caught and released over 20 fish. On the final day of the season
anglers reported a good number of fish and ended with a BBQ in
Patrick O'Reilly's pub in Kilnaleck.
Dr Brian Lalor, PRO L.S.T.P.A.
reports on the second annual stream rehabilitation fly-fishing
competition
''The second annual stream
rehabilitation flyfishing competition organised by The Lough
Sheelin Trout Protection Association took place on Saturday the
6th of October. There was a large entry of 108 boats with 216
anglers taking part from all over Ireland. The weather conditions
were difficult with thick fog until lunch time and a flat calm for
the rest of the day. Anglers reported that although plenty of
rising fish were seen they were shy and reluctant to rise to the
artificial fly. Fourteen keepable fish were nevertheless bagged
with first prize of a Lough Sheelin 19 foot boat going to Gary
Stewart of Derry with a fine wild Lough Sheelin brownie of 2 lb 2
oz. Second prize with a fish of 1 lb 12 oz went to Jim Condron of
County Meath third to Geoffrey Hylands of County Down. Fourth
prize went to one of many lady entrants, Linda Straghan of Armagh
who won what must be a unique prize for a fishing competition, a
lawnmower donated by PJ Callan of Ardee!
Money collected from the entrance fees will be used to improve the
spawning beds and rivers for the Lough Sheelin trout. Evidence of
an improvement in the stocks of large brown trout as a result of
previous spawning enhancement work is already being seen in the
improved angling returns on Lough Sheelin during the 2007
season as a whole.''
Photo: photo courtesy of Dr Brian
Lalor, PRO- Lough Sheelin Trout Protection
Association.
Next up - the Cavan Monaghan Garda Division
who fished
their annual competition in bright calm conditions on Sunday 7th
October. 8 trout were recorded. The results were
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1st Place: Garda - Sec Pat Foley with
a trout of 1lb 10ozs
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2nd Place: M Carr - 1 trout 11ozs
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3rd Place: V Hughes with a trout of
1lb 10ozs
For local information contact Thomas Lynch L.S.T.P.A. Mobile: 087
9132033 or logon to the L.S.T.P.A website
http://www.loughsheelinanglers.ie/
For local updates contact
Mr Sean Gurhy, Assistant Fisheries Inspector Lough Sheelin Tel:
049 4336144
LOUGH O'FLYNN & UPPER RIVER SUCK
The season ended on Friday October 12th. The weather
was beautiful for the time of year. Tony and Michael Mc Dowell and
John Hamilton from Dublin, dry fly anglers had success on O'Flynn,
best fishing using the dry Daddy.
For updates contact John Ryan, Assistant
Fisheries Inspector Co Roscommon at 087 2536064.
MID SHANNON AREA
LOUGH ENNELL
The fishing on Ennell this year was
very disappointing and anglers found the going
extremely tough on many occasions but especially
towards the end of season when the Ennell trout
would normally feed well before spawning.
Mick Finlay and David Callaghan from Portlaoise had
3 fish over 3 days - 1.5lbs, 2.5lbs and 3.5lbs. In
the Lakeland Anglers competition 20 anglers caught
2 fish and was won by John Brennan.
For updates contact
Pat Mc Donnell, Fisheries Officer Shannon Regional
Fisheries Board Mullingar Office Tel: 044 9348769
mornings
LOUGH OWEL
Photo: Legendary angler Paddy Dolan
pictured on Owel with grandson Ger Keena. - photo courtesy of Michael
Flanagan,
The end of season fishing did not disappoint and
most anglers expressed their satisfaction with the
fishing on Owel. In particular they were pleased
with the amount of good quality fish, most of
which were stockies, that came to the fly over the
last four weeks of the season. Over 100 fish were
officially returned for the week. Some fine fish
were caught. Shane Cullen and Andy Duncan
Mullingar each had the best reported fish of the
week at 4.5lbs on Monday the 8th October and
October 11th respectively. Michael Flanagan and
friend had 12 fish over 4 days, fish averaging
1.5lbs. Peter Mc Carton and Andy Young had 8
fish between (3 released) best 3.5lbs. Peter
Doherty and Denis Goulding from Kildare Joe
Vickers Tullamore had 4 fish for 6lbs on Tuesday
October 9th. Brendan Murray, Mullingar had 5 fish,
best 3.5lbs. There were other good returns
received - well done to all. Angling
has finished now on all the Board’s waters and
will resume next year on the 1st March.-
join us then. See Michael Flanagan's report for
details of the end of season trout competitions.
For updates
contact Pat Mc Donnell, Fisheries Officer
Shannon Regional Fisheries Board Mullingar
Office Tel: 044 48769
Mick Flanagan, Angling
correspondent and photographer for Sunday World
and Topic group of newspapers Tel: 087 2797270:
mick@midlandangling.com
reports on Midland Lakes & Rivers.
Photo: Handy Andy with end of season trout
from Owel - photo courtesy of Michael
Flanagan.
It has been a hectic week, with the trout season
coming to an end on Friday last 12th
October. I spent the week fishing and have a huge
number of pics from the last few days. I had a bit
of luck on Ennell on the last day and won the end
of season competition. On Owel Joe Sharry topped
the day.
END OF TROUT SEASON...
Photo: Marty Smith on Owel.
Well it's all over now and it was a great week to
end the trout fishing. The weather was great and
we had no rain for the last few days. Local and
visiting anglers enjoyed some great fishing on
Owel I spent 3 days on Owel and met a lot of
local faces fishing out the end of season. On
Thursday Mullingar auctioneer Andy Duncan was
fishing with our good friend Marty Smith and the
lads had some cracking trout. I spent the day with
Lough Owel Chairman Andy Boyle and we had a great
day out. The crack with Andy was priceless and we
even managed a few trout. On Friday the end of
season competition took place on Owel and Ennell.
Joe Sharry topped Lough Owel with a fine fish of
3lbs, hot on his heels was Mullingar angler
Brendan Murray with 2.6lbs and 3rd was Dublin
angler Peter Mc Glynn with 2.212lbs. The
competition was well supported and all proceeds
from the day goes towards stocking Lough Owel. On
Ennell the anglers hosted a sweep day and the
O'Malley Cup was also fished. On the day I fished
with Niall O'Brien from Lucan. Niall is our
computer wizard and on the night of the
presentation in Caffreys he provided a splendid
slide show of pictures I took throughout the 2007
season. It went down a treat, just like the few
pints after a hard season. I had a bit of luck on
Ennell and landed a super trout weighing 3.364lbs,
in second place was Aidan Heffernan with 2.062lbs.
As we mentioned the presentation was held in
Caffreys Bar & Lounge. the competition organizers
would like to thank the Caffrey family for the use
of the premises. T.P. Farrell, Jack Doolan,
Leonard Geoghan, Stan Mc Keown, and Niall O' Brien
for their sponsorship.
Report by Michael Flanagan
GARDA ON OWEL...
Photo: Top Garda Barry Rogers - photo
courtesy of Michael Flanagan.
The Garda Salmon and Trout anglers were in action
recently on Lough Owel. They hosted their end of
season competition on Owel and on the day local
Garda Barry Rogers took top rod place. There was a
good turn out of anglers on the day and this is
the second year that Barry has won this event. The
Garda salmon and trout anglers would like to thank
all who supported and sponsored this competition.
PRESENTATION....
On Friday Morning last a presentation took place
at Tullaghan. Dermot Broughan on behalf of the
Shannon Regional Fishery Board was presented with
a framed picture of the 1990 International fly
fishing teams which competed on Owel that year.
The pictured were presented by Dermott Caffery on
behalf of Paddy and May Gallagher. The team
pictures will be on display in the new Angling
Centre at Tullaghan.
UPCOMING EVENTS...
I am just checking out dates for the Winter Pike
competition season. next week I will have a few
dates for your diary. Now that the brown trout
season is over I will be visiting a few local
rainbow trout waters. These fisheries are very
popular in the winter months and it's great to wet
a line and catch a few super rainbow trout.
LOUGH DERRAVARAGH,
For general updates
contact Pat Mc Donnell, Fisheries Officer
Shannon Regional Fisheries Board Mullingar
Office Tel: 044 48769
LOUGH REE
ATHLONE ANGLERS ASSOCIATION NEWS
contact Eamon Cunningham P.R.O. Athlone Anglers
Association Phone
Mob: 087 - 2340815
We will be returning next year to feature the Association's News
2008
PALLAS LAKE CO OFFALY
Fishing season closed.
For general updates contact Dinny Coyne Chairperson of the Pallas Lake Angling
Club Tel: 087 2974306.
LOUGH ACALLA CO GALWAY
For updates contact John Devaney, Assistant
Fisheries Inspector, Roscommon 087 2266735
CAMCOR RIVER BIRR
Fishing season closed.
LOWER SHANNON AREA
This Bye-Law provides for a bag limit of 4
fish (being either salmon or sea trout over 40 cm) from 1 March to 12 May
subject to a daily bag limit of 1 fish during the period. The Bye-law also
incorporates the provisions of the existing Bye-law i.e. an overall
annual bag limit of 10 fish for 2007, a daily bag limit of 3
fish from 13 May to 31 August and a daily bag limit of 1 fish from 1 September
to the end of the season. The Bye-law also provides for the use of single hooks
and prohibits the use of worms as bait once the specified number of fish have
been caught in the specified periods.
For up to date
fishing reports contact the local Assistant
Fisheries Inspector Mr Paddy Halpin Mobile:
087 7729126
ShRFB reports for
Castleroberts Fishery
RIVER MAIGUE.
For angling updates on
Castleroberts contact Mob: 087 9810817
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