#ANGLING - A big month for angling in Ireland continues in Galway, as the biggest ever fish caught on the Western lakes now has a permanent home in Clonbur.

As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Welsh fly fisherman Ceri Jones hooked the 24lb monster trout from Lough Corrib at the end of May.

After authentication by the Irish Specimen Trout Committee, the goliath fish has been declared the biggest catch on record in all of Ireland since 1894, when William Mears landed a 26lb brown trout at Lough Ennell.

Fly Fishing Cork reports that the fish now has pride of place above the bar at Tigh Bhurca in Clonbur, joining a 19lb giant that Jones himself caught a few years ago.

“There was never a question of the fish going anywhere else," he says of the new home for his record-breaking catch. "I got an opening offer of $5,000 from an American who collects such catches but I’d never even consider selling it.

"Clonbur is where the fish should stay and we’ve completed that part of the jigsaw by handing it over here tonight. I got local taxidermist John Thomas from Headford to stuff it and now it’s where I always want it to be.”

Fly Fishing Cork has more on the story HERE.