Declan Gibbons reports on an improvement on Corrib over the last few days: Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge www.corribangling.com says angling was much improved over the last week with late mayfly hatching producing good sport. Early morning Caenis fishing has been busy with some good catches. UK angler Ben Watson fished for 4 […]
Declan Gibbons reports on another good week on Corrib, with great conditions providing really good late season sport. In the Cornamona area Tom Doc Sullivan, http://www.tomdoc.com, reports of the following anglers enjoying good angling on Lough Corrib: Jason Riordan from Waterford and Dave Burke from Cork fished for three days and had great sport boating […]
Sean Kyne TD, Minister with responsibility for the Inland Fisheries Sector, has signed off three new angling bye-laws which affect the Corrib catchment in Counties Galway and Mayo. Minister Kyne said: “The bye-laws, which have been requested by local angling clubs, concern the Abbert and Grange Rivers, the Clare River and the Cong River and […]
Declan Gibbons reports on a week that saw hectic sport at the start, but the heatwave has slowed mayfly fishing right down since the weekend. Anglers out late have been rewarded with good balling buzzer fishing, while the early morning Caenis hatches have started in some areas, mainly from Saddle south. Fishing during the main […]
Declan Gibbons reports from Lough Corrib, where despite sporadic hatches, many anglers enjoyed excellent fishing. Mayfly hatches have been good in some parts of the lake and patchy in others, while Campto buzzer have hatched consistently in some bays and buzzer fishing has produced some great trout this week as conditions were ideal for it […]
Lough Corrib is seeing small hatches of olives at the moment, but wet fly fishing and buzzers are taking most fish. No big sign of mayfly yet, and with the whitethorn bush still showing no sign of flowering, it may be another while yet. Weather over the past week has ranged from sunshine and flat […]
The Lough Corrib Angling Federation unveiled their impressive new website on a Wednesday evening in mid March at a launch held at the Commercial Boat Club, Galway. Chairman Denis Healy welcomed everyone to the launch, and spoke about the work the federation is carrying out on spawning and feeder streams, in association with Cairde na […]
Efforts to rehabilitate salmon and trout populations and maintain genetic diversity planned for Lough Corrib tributary. Sean Kyne TD, Minister with responsibility for Inland Fisheries, has last week welcomed the development, by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), of a specific stock management plan for Galway’s Owenriff system aimed at removing pike from the system as a […]
Declan Gibbons reports that anglers and service providers are reporting slow to moderate angling activity for this time of year. A drop in temperatures resulting in less hatches and heavy recent rainfall, causing lake levels to rise are not the most conducive to good angling, however some anglers enjoyed good late season sport and are […]
Declan Gibbons has all the new from Lough Corrib from the middle of September… In the Cornamona area on Thursday last John Somerville enjoyed a days fishing on Thursday last landing three trout with his best being a pound and a half all daphnia feeders and all sportingly released. In the Inishmacateer area on […]