Angling News
Week ending May 07, 2010
Shore Angling:
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Boat Angling:
Lough Swilly SAC will start their league season this Sunday the 9th May. There will be some places available for non-members who fancy a days fishing - call Angela to book. Entries are now also being taken for the annual Lough Swilly Tope and whitefish festival, which will take place over the Whit weekend, the 5th, and 6th June - the entry fee is €60 euro per day and places are limited to 50. Call Angela on 087 2480132 to book your place. The Donegal Championships will be held on the 27th of June and the Ulster Closed Gold Medal competition on Saturday the 4th of September.
The Annual Tope and Whitefish Festival will take place on the 5th and 6th of June, The Donegal Championships will be held on the 27th of June and the Ulster Closed Gold Medal competition on Saturday the 4th of September. Membership for seniors is €50 for the year and it was decided that in order to attract more juniors their membership would be reduced to €10 euro. It was also decided that juniors would only pay €10 euro for each league trip with the club paying the balance. Anyone interested in joining the club can contact any club member or call Angela on 087 2480132 for details or visit their website at www.rathmullancharters.com.
The Magheroarty and Islands SAC are now running midweek evening trips for the rest of the summer. The boat departs Magheroarty Pier every Wednesday at 6.30 pm, visiting anglers welcome depending on spaces available. The next club day trip will be on May 16th out of Rathmullan, target species to be decided nearer the date. Members can contact the Club boat Officer for more details.
Salmon Angling:
Shane Gallagher, Fishery manager from the Drowes reports that water levels have dropped to 0.425 metres on the gauge at the Four Masters' Bridge. Despite the low water conditions there were good numbers of fish running during the week and multiple fish reported each day.
The Ryan party had 5 fish for their week from 4 to 9 lbs all on fly from Lennox's, Corry and the Mill Pool. The McDowell party had 6 fish for their week from 5 to 8.5 lbs on prawn and spinner from the Crooked Hole, Tinkers and between the bridges.
Rory Morrin returned again on Wednesday and had 2 fish of 4 and 6 lbs on the green butt holo silver Cascade from the Corry. Both fish were very sportingly released again.
M. King also landed and released a 7 lbs fish from the Money Hole on Sunday. S. Harte had a 4 lbs fish on worm from the Crooked Hole, Garry Morrow had a 7.5 lbs fish from the Meadow on prawn on Sunday, M. Kettyles had an 8 lbs fish on fly from the Sea Pools on Sunday, G. Taggart had a 7 lbs fish on Cascade from the Sea Pools on Sunday, G. Matier had a 6 lbs fish on prawn from the Sea Pool, D. Mc Whirter reported a 5 lbs fish on fly from Corry, M. Forbes had an 8 lbs fish on worm from the Blackwater and D. Burns had a 4 lbs grilse on a Cascade from Lennox’s, all on Thursday.
M. Carmill had a 5.5lbs fish on spinner from the Crooked Hole and Chris Mc Daid had 2 fish, releasing one, both of around 6lbs on Cascade from the Sea Pools on Friday.
For info/bookings etc on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin contact Shane Gallagher on 071 9841055 or see the website for all the latest news from the fishery.
Meanwhile a small clean 3 ft spate came down the Finn last Wednesday morning with most of the fresh water coming into the system from the 2 Reelins. Some fresh fish made their way up to Cloghan in the afternoon and fish were spotted coming into the lower end of Peter’s Hollow that evening when the water had fallen away to 10 inches. Emmett Browne had a fresh 5.5 lbs fish from Kee’s on a size 9 Finn Gold Shrimp on Wednesday afternoon.
Two more fish up to 9.5 lbs were reported on Thursday and 11 fish up to 11 lbs were reported on Friday from Cloghan Estate rods. Irwin Robinson caught 4 fish on the fly on the Ivy Bridge, beat 2 last Friday. John Lennox also caught a fish on the fly on Friday with fish of the week falling to Peter Mason, who caught a lovely 11 lbs springer on the fly from Beat 2 also. At the time of writing we are forecast rain that might just fall high enough up in the Croaghs to move more fish up. We really need a banker of a flood now to move the main head of spring fish up but having said that recent catches have been very good considering the conditions and very little angling pressure!
Season and Day permits for the Cloghan Estate Salmon Fishery on the River Finn are now available here at the Lough Swilly Angling Centre and at the Cloghan Lodge.
Trout Angling:
The Milford & District Fly Angling Club will hold their Annual beginners fun day on Lough Fern this Sunday the 9th of May from 2 pm until 5 pm. This is a great opportunity for beginners of all ages to enjoy the beautiful setting of Lough Fern and avail of the Clubs' facilities see what fly fishing for wild brown Trout is all about. For further details, please contact Ivan on 087 2563698 or Hugo on 0861789936. The Milford and District Fly Angling Club also offer 3 Boats for hire on Lough Fern. For bookings or further information please contact the office on 074 9153736 between 9 am and 5 pm.
Meanwhile, I have no catch reports from the Lough Na Tooey Rainbow Fishery in Creeslough but I would like to wish big Gerry Griel a speedy recovery from his latest angling misfortune while on location after the elusive wild Atlantic Sea Bass. The Creeslough Club now offers the visiting angler 2 sessions per day, 9am to 3 pm and from 4 pm to 10 pm. Please contact 085 175 1222 for bookings and the latest up to date information.
Contribute:
If you or your club have any competition results, photos of catches or information on
forthcoming events please contact me here at the Angling Centre on 074 9168496 or
email to webmaster@donegalanglingcentre.com