Irish Angling News. Sport Fishing, Longlining and Trolling Updates
#ANGLING - The Irish Specimen Fish Committee (ISFC) will be accepting submissions of specimen claims for shad and cyprinids - such as roach, rudd and their hybrids - till 17 October. The submission date has been brought forward due to…
#ANGLING - A man has been convicted and fined at Limerick District Court for illegally fishing without a permit on the Mulkear River in another successful prosecution for Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). Last June, fisheries officers with IFI were carrying…
#ANGLING - Sea trout were top of the agenda at a recent meeting between Welsh Deputy Fisheries Minister Alun Davies and Minister of State Fergus O’Dowd at Leinster House recently. Both ministers were briefed about progress with the INTERREG IVa…
#ANGLING - The going is tough in the last weeks of this year's angling season on Lough Mask, as Mayo Today reports. Though anglers are still out in good numbers despite the shortening days and drop in temperature, catch numbers…
#ANGLING - The cross-border team of Phil Jackson and Cathal Hughes took the top prize at the Lakelands & Inland Waterways World Pairs Angling Championship earlier this month, as The Irish Times reports. The pair - from Craigavon and Galway…
#ANGLING - For the third time in four years an Irish boat has won the Rosslare Small Boats Festival, which took place from 8-15 September. In what was an extremely tight competition, Screaming Reels from Rosies Sea Angling Club in…
#ANGLING - The Irish Times' angling correspondent Derek Evans was on hand at the Irish Wheelchair Association's eighth annual fishing competition on the banks of the Grand Canal at Lucan recently. More than 100 anglers from 15 different centres around…
#ANGLING - The Irish Fly Fair and International Angling Show returns to the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill this November for the third year running. As the Galway Independent reports, the show will run over the weekend of 10-11 November…
#ANGLING - Known as the 'wolves of the sea', blue sharks haven't yet been showing in numbers off Cork Harbour, but a number of them surprised a group of anglers recently. Donie Geary of the angling boat John Boy tells…
#ANGLING - Henry's Tackle Shop in Ballybough is conducting a countrywide survey to determine the extent of the decline of bass activity around Ireland's coastline. According to the shop's Henry Lynam and Pat Daly, the last two years have seen…
#ANGLING - Entries close next Friday 17 August for the Lakelands & Inland Waterways World Pairs Angling Championship, taking place from 10-14 September in Monaghan, Leitrim, Cavan and Fermanagh. Described at the world's richest coarse angling competition by the Leitrim…
#ANGLING - Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has successfully won two court cases for illegal salmon fishing on the River Boyne in 2011. In the first case Arunas Butkus of Navan, Co Meath was fined €3,000 for illegal salmon angling and…
#ANGLING - Inland Fisheries Ireland has teamed up with the committee behind the World Cup Trout Fly Angling Championship to develop a biosecurity initiative for the contest, taking place on Lough Mask from 2-6 August. The premier event in the…
#ANGLING - Climate change in the Atlantic may be a significant factor in the decline of wild salmon returning to their native rivers in Ireland - especially with the news that a section of ice twice the size of Manhattan…
#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…
#ANGLING - Mayo Today reports an extraordinary week of angling on the River Moy, with more than 800 salmon caught. The best sport on the river was on the East Mayo Anglers' water, where an impressive 179 salmon were snagged…