They obligingly grew bigger throughout the 1980s, as first 8lbs, then 9lbs and finally 10lbs fish became commonplace. There is roadside access and car parking along Baird’s Shore. Norman realised the tourist potential, and he hijacked a trip from Chris Dawn of Angling Times, who had not intended featuring Carrickmacross in his itinerary. 10 Upper Lough MacNean. However, no-one doubted the scale of the tragedy. Fishing … Jim would often contact fish within minutes of arriving, but the downside was that he invariably had to leave around 9am to open his tackle shop, then fight off exhaustion for the rest of the day while he awaited my afternoon visit, with news of what he’d missed. Boat fishing in White Lake is popular. Norman didn’t respond to my confident assertion that these must be rudd, but I later learned that that he had pre-baited and fished the rickety stand nearby, one misty dawn soon afterwards, only to draw a blank. Irish Bream are a slim, deep-bodied fish, designed for tight shoaling. My memories of bream fishing, where I set myself a goal to catch a big specimen bream of double figure (over 10lbs) from a wild Irish Lough. It was however immensely satisfying to create this clip and I am looking forward to learn more and deliver better and more engaging fishing videos. In August that same year, Neil McCabe and I returned to do things properly, with a week at Olive Shackleton’s Ballyhoe guesthouse. We reluctantly switched our attention there, leaving NaGlack condemned to a long slow death of constant pollution, over-enrichment, burgeoning weed growth and ultimately de-oxygenation when the weed died back in autumn. Firstly Ian sets up on the bank of the 1000-acre Lough Garradice and shows how to bait up for bream. Mask is a limestone lough of some 20,000 acres, and 10 miles long by about 4 miles wide. Lough Major At the headwaters of the Dromore river, ... 3-4 metres deep and the lake is noted for big fish - tench, pike and bream. For that first hour, my sense of panic mounted as I checked the depth (18ft – EEK!) Belle Isle offers some of the best boat and bank angling in Europe. –––to read more about bream fishing check out issue 13 of the Free online Angling Magazine 'Off the Scale Angling' http://www.offthescaleangling.ie/issue13/issue13.htmlfor the current issue click here: https://www.offthescaleangling.ie/current_issue/ Don't be a stranger╰ Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcinKantor?sub_confirmation=1╰ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcin_kantor╰ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/0.marcin.kantor Music in this videoSOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jas... Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 United States— CC BY 3.0 US http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/4M9Puanhdac Coarse Angling All Year Round; Coarse Fish in Ireland. I tried to repeat my exploits over the next few days, catching only tench, but witnessing those bream had also lit a spark with Jimmy McMahon, who had hitherto only ever fished for pike or trout. In March 1980 along with three friends I paid my first visit to Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, the mecca for Irish bream anglers. All the normal spots are seeing some action but a lot of very thin trout showing up. This was just a quick overnight visit, but we packed a lot in. This lake is relatively shallow and holds stocks of pike, perch, roach, bream and some tench. Lough Mask – continues to fish well. And a huge amount of luck on your side is very needed.This is a short video put together using some pictures and clips I recorded at the time. One sunny day in August 1981, during that first long summer at Monalty, I encountered Norman during my daily walk into town for bait and provisions. I’d lost several more in the lilies. In my keepnet were seven bream over 6lbs, the biggest going 7lb 12oz and 7lb 15oz. Ballinrobe also hosts a fantastic racecourse plus a championship parkland golf course, so whatever you’re seeking on your Irish break, this County Mayo cottage is … Jimmy featured on RTÉ news, with footage of the overspill sewage being sprayed around the fields bordering NaGlack. We caught no fish, but the wood-smoke and the magic of night-fishing, along with talk of Monalty’s monsters, set the imagination racing. Bream (Abramis brama). On another occasion, we were one of three groups enjoying massive catches at different locations separated by 400 yards, so NaGlack clearly held more than a single shoal of bream. In the darkness, glimpsed through the trees, it looked inky black and forbidding. The following year, 1981, I camped at Monalty for much of the summer, and managed c.50 bream, including my first specimen, plus hybrids of near-record size. Another year passed, and after further success at Monalty over Easter 1982, I began fishing other Carrickmacross lakes in June. NaGlack lay in a sheltered tree-ringed hollow, and catastrophic de-oxygenation following a calm spell meant it was now devoid of fish-life. Lough Mask is a fabulous natural limestone fishing lake, which holds a vast amount of wild brown trout. Soon I had used up my half-pint of maggots, with just enough left for the hook. I will forever associate the song “Africa”, by Toto, with those first two summers at NaGlack. 3.3 After an uneventful mornings fishing in Gortmore Bay, they pulled ashore to an Island to have lunch. The largest lough, by water volume, is Lough Neagh, with Lough Mask being the largest in the Republic. The lake was by now acting as a septic tank for Monalty, just 400 yards downstream, but at least NaGlack’s upstream position afforded Monalty some protection. Fred Foster and Norman witnessed one memorable catch, when I likened the bream to drunken football supporters, as they advanced up the channel towards us. Why had I brought so few maggots with me? During the heatwave of July- August 1983, my tent was pitched in near swamp conditions beside NaGlack’s narrow channel, and Jim and I ambushed the bream as they came rolling and crashing past us at dawn each morning. Dapping the daddy-long-legs or grasshopper can be very successful from July onwards. My memories of bream fishing in Ireland, where I set myself a goal to catch a big specimen bream of double-figure (over 10lbs) from a wild Irish Lough. But this was a new and stressful situation, and I lacked the confidence and certainty that experience brings. Word soon spread. To the south west is Drumlaheen Lough, a water consisitng of two basins connected by a short channel restricting access during high water conditions. These are very rear creatures in Ireland and at that size, they usually are of 17-20 years of age. My heart was pounding as I fumbled to set up a sliding float rig. Lough Mask is a limestone lake of about 83 km2 in Counties Galway and Mayo, Ireland, north of Lough Corrib. However, a trout angler named Scotson had famously landed a NaGlack bream of 10lbs 11oz on a spinner in 1957.Billy Scotson’s 10lb 11oz NaGlack bream, 27th July 1957. It was as only as 1983 progressed, with an endless succession of bigger bags and bigger fish, that we began to realise we had triggered a mini tourism boom. Very big bream have the reputation of being one of the most difficult fish to … Irish fishing guide Ian Kitson takes us on a tour of some of the superb coarse fishing venues in Country Leitrim, Ireland in this guide to catching more on your fishing trips to the Emerald Isle. Within a month Norman was directing the first English anglers to NaGlack, and I showed two regular visitors, Steve and Stan, to the swim that had produced fish for me. During the heatwave of July- August 1983, my tent was pitched in near swamp conditions beside NaGlack’s narrow channel, and Jim and I ambushed the bream as they came rolling and crashing past us at dawn each morning. Sea trout fishing is available at various locations throughout Mayo but check the latest information with the operators of these fisheries (eg Burrishoole, Newport, Delphi, Errif). In my anxiety I was all fingers and thumbs, and barely able to tie the simplest knot. It is a large limestone lake of 22,000 acres in area, 10 miles long by 4 miles wide. the source of the River Erne. Dapping the mayfly, daddylonglegs or grasshopper can bring about excellent results during the various months of the season. Ronan Cusack reports on an upswing in fishing on Lough Mask: Mask continues to fish well over the past week with some excellent catches reported.... Mayfly up on Corrib with buzzer also producing good fishing Still the bream rolled silently around my float, tightly concentrated. and Lough Mask is well known for the large ferrox trout taken annually which often weigh in excess of 10 lbs. There followed a dream sequence lasting just over an hour, during which my bobbin rarely settled. I managed very little fishing that fateful summer of 1990, following the birth of my first daughter, but I will never forget Jimmy’s chilling phone call in September, describing how gasping fish were once again surfacing all over NaGlack. Catches of 200 pounds of bream are common, roach can be caught every cast, and one party of four reeled in more than 70 pike in less than two days, with the biggest nearly 30 pounds. As juveniles, they tend to be silver in colour, whereas the adults are a range of bronze, brown or gold hues. It is famous for its large ferox trout and every season a substantial number of these are caught on Lough Mask. They both married local girls and continued to enjoy the incomparable fishing, back in the days before specimen-hunting, when bream were caught on bread flake and big hooks. As we dozed off, someone identified the lake behind us as the Convent Lake, a.k.a. Identifying a potential venue is a big challenge in itself, not to mention all the work that needs to be put in afterwards to be in the chance of catching bream that big. Those neglected fish had continued to thrive and grow, but the story of their habits, and the “Hiawatha” tactics we used to track them down, must wait for another day…, Part 2 of Colm’s excellent account of the monster bream of Lough NaGlack is available in issue 3 of the magazine. The locals often described how an emergency call went out one day in 1975, with news that the margins at NaGlack were clogged with dead and dying bream. Tel: +353 (0)94 9541389 Email: info@lakeshoreholidays Web: www.lakeshoreholidays.com Brian Joyce Derrypark Lodge, Deerpark, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo. I didn’t plumb the depth, as I was sure I’d be wasting my time. Small bream with roach, rudd, hybrids and perch can be found here. That was why I carried only a single float rod, keepnet, landing net and some maggots. On a hot Sunday in August 1992 I was to rediscover NaGlack’s survivors for a second time, launching another decade of unrivalled bream fishing, but this time with no fanfare. Lough Lough Garrow: Private road access to chalet with stands provided by owner. Lough Conn – It is still very quiet on Conn but the angling pressure has been virtually nil so there could be more chances for sport than people realise. Lough Carra supports an excellent stock of wild brown trout averaging 1.5 lbs. In late June, I camped for a few days at Dick’s Lake, and caught tench and bream to just over 5lbs on the pole and slider. In the years that followed I was to learn that NaGlack bream would often roll like this at dawn in summertime, perhaps for up to an hour before finally getting their heads down. Lough Carra flows into Lough Mask, which feeds into Lough Corrib through an underground stream which becomes the River Cong. Towards the end we scrounged a lift to Monalty one evening, where it rained on our motionless swingtips for most of that night. He was standing near the entrance to the tree-lined avenue, high above NaGlack, and he pointed to what had caught his attention; dark motionless shapes under the surface at the edge of the lilies, perhaps 100 yards below us. Nevertheless, Neil still managed to catch a single awesome bream and, at just over 5lbs, the biggest we’d ever seen. Recent surveys carried out by the local Fisheries Board identified seven fish species in Lough Mask; Brown Trout (including Ferox Trout), Char, Perch, Pike, Bream, Roach & Eel. Over two nights I introduced about 6lbs of groundbait, two tins of sweetcorn and some maggots. May fly dapping is productive in taking trout above average weight. They trumped my achievement, with twenty bream to 8lb 15oz. We rounded off our adventure at the Nuremore Hotel disco, reputedly then the biggest in Ireland, before sleeping fitfully in the car in the Hotel grounds. I was already exhibiting all the symptoms of a serious bream fixation at that stage. It is noted for its beautiful free-rising brown trout. When I finally set out bleary-eyed from my tent it was 4am on Friday 2nd July 1982. Pike,Brown Trout,Perch fishing in Lough Mask Co Mayo The lough is known worldwide for its excellent freshwater fish, and is home to the World International Fly-Fishing Championship, held each May just next door on the Cahir Pier. Identification. The eastern basin, known locally as Greagh Lake, has depths up to 18m but access to the best shore fishing here requires a 500m walk. They can present quite a challenge to hook, however, as they tend to resist bait. We caught fish every day, bream and tench in good numbers from both lakes. Lough Corrib is the second largest, and is the largest in the Republic. Should be worth a cast from now on. Targeting Bream on Lough Beg For anglers similar to me that have been badly bitten by the specimen-hunting bug, it makes a great deal of sense to keep a personal angling diary. Lough Mask is one of the best known brown trout fisheries in Ireland. Our media campaign, petitions and awareness-raising ultimately bore fruit, with a £2m upgrade for the sewage plant, but once again NaGlack lay unfished and largely ignored. The list below contains only those loughs that are of geographic, geological, or historical importance and almost all of them are over a square kilometre in area. Inland Fisheries Trust staff led the efforts to salvage as many struggling fish as possible, and some survived the transfer to nearby Dick’s or Corcrin. Jimmy McMahon and I sharing an incredible twenty bream to 10lb 5oz, July 1985. Jim duly arrived with a photographer in tow, and Norman appeared with certified scales. Hopefully, I will at some stage be able to present those aspects of the beauty of the Nature that I am lucky to experience while out fishing. Fishing Sim World - #32: Lough Kerr, Ireland DLC: BIG Bream, but a bit Buggy!In this episode, I will be showing you the new Lough Kerr, Ireland DLC. Norman had moved from Lancashire to Carrick’ in the mid-1960s, with angling friend Dave Shorthouse, largely on the strength of the huge catches they had amassed whilst holidaying at NaGlack. Lough Mask. Boasting a garden, Lough Mask Fishing Lodge features accommodation in Cong with free WiFi and lake views. 3.2 Joe Walsh, co-owner of the boat, was in charge of the vessel operating the engine from the stern. Drumlaney Lake: Limited car parking. By now I was getting used to navigating the belt of trees around the golf course, and locating the submerged trail through the reeds. The rest is history. There are a number of fishing stands in place to accommodate anglers. Bream (Abramis brama) Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) Hybrids (Rudd x Bream & Roach x Bream) Tench (Tinca tinca) Surely that bait had been hoovered up by now? I was also fishing the occasional match, with practice sessions on local waters such as Corcrin, Brothers and Capragh. No-one bothered fishing NaGlack, which was generally deep, dark and inaccessible, with tall trees, dense reed-beds and impenetrable weed round much of its margins. The holiday home features 6 bedrooms, a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom. Lough Mask Road Fishing Lodge, Cong offers accommodations in Cong, 1,650 feet from Ashford Castle and 9.9 mi from Raunaskerra Ringfort. Salmon and sea trout fishing in the East; Loughs Agency; Northern Ireland; Conservation and welfare; Catch and Release for Atlantic Salmon; Salmon Angling Regulations; Coarse. As my tent became a fixture at the lake, I got to know Jim McMahon from the local tackle shop, and an expatriate Englishman called Norman Howarth, the top local matchman and guesthouse owner. There are anglers car parks at Lisgillen and Anney. Tel: +353 (0)94 9544081 Email: bpjoyce@eircom.net Web: www.derryparklodge.com Tom & Maura Staunton Permission to fish is required from owner on this lovely fishery which has fishing for specimen bream, specimen roach bream hybrids, roach, good perch and big pike. The lough is fished for trout, usually during the mayfly season. I am only learning editing for the last couple of days with the limited recordings I have here and there are many things that can be done better. It is suitable for boat fishing for pike. By June 1990, with the capture of the first 11-pounder, the century-old bream record was looking precarious. I was starving, but above all else in those days before mobile phones, I needed to race into town and share my sensational news. And why could I not get a bite? Authorities such as John Bailey rate it very highly indeed. The rest is history. Such was the dominance of Carrickmacross that other angling centres protested that they simply could not compete. But we had ignored the warning signs as catches fell away in the late 1980s, never suspecting that history could repeat itself. But we had ignored the warning signs as catches fell away in the late 1980s, never suspecting that history could repeat itself. The. Mr. John O’Hora set off from Charlestown, Tubbercurry for a days fishing on Lough Mask and left the shore at Churchfield at 12.45pm. This lake holds stocks of bream, rudd, hybrids and pike. ne of many mentions of NaGlack in the UK press from the early to mid 80s (picture courtesy of the Angling Times)A well proportioned 9lb 11oz from 19871984 and another NaGlack double of just over 10lb. Following that second fish-kill we launched a two-year campaign to persuade the authorities to upgrade the sewage treatment plant upstream of NaGlack, as its capacity could no longer cope with the town’s growing population. I felt like an Amazonian explorer, wading through knee-high water, dense foliage and high reeds to reach the water’s edge. Irish Record 6.07 Kilo taken on 26.06.2012 by Bryan Robinson at Ballywillan Lough, Dromore.. Specimen 7lbs 8oz. raised its threshold specimen weight to 8lbs, and limited the number of claims per angler to three, but the bream and hybrids from Monalty and NaGlack still dominated the ISFC lists. The Irish Specimen Fish Committee (ISFC)  raised its threshold specimen weight to 8lbs, and limited the number of claims per angler to three, but the bream and hybrids from Monalty and NaGlack still dominated the ISFC lists. Catches were weighed by the hundredweight in keepnets, and they rarely bothered weighing individual fish. in an agony of indecision, before finally opting to fish a bigger slider. Fishing in Lough Erne. Duckfly hatches are best during the months of April. The lough produces good catches to wetfly from about mid-April. Lough Mask is the middle of the three lakes, which empty into the Corrib River, through Galway, into Galway Bay. Lough Mask is renowned for its high quality wet-fly fishing, which extends for most of the season. I heeded Ivan Marks’s advice about ignoring line-bites and allowing true bites to develop, and the bobbin would slowly rise up and jam against the second rod-ring. Lough Mask is the fourth largest lake, by area, in Ireland and the sixth largest lake in the island of Ireland. Lough Corrib and Lough Mask provide excellent spots for some of the best fishing in the Emerald Isle, with serene settings for keen anglers. Such was the dominance of Carrickmacross that other angling centres protested that they simply could not compete. Read for free, here . 1 was here. Fishing from stands. In Enniskillen, fishing stands are located at the more popular fishing spots throughout the town which has improved access to the lough. And so it remained for the rest of that decade. On another occasion, we were one of three groups enjoying massive catches at different locations separated by 400 yards, so NaGlack clearly held more than a single shoal of bream. I needed little encouragement to join Norman in conjuring up a few 7lbs bream for Chris’s camera, followed by a feast in the Nuremore Hotel , courtesy of Bord Fáilte. All the text-book bream-fishing clichés came true. The float had to go, and soon my 13ft float rod had become a leger rod, offering maggots on a 14 hook and 3lbs hooklength, with a maggot feeder on a 10” paternoster link. I will forever associate the song “Africa”, by Toto, with those first two summers at NaGlack. There was no sign of fish-life, and little encouragement for anglers, especially with so many other lakes in the area regularly yielding huge hauls of bream. When bream fishing in Ireland you need to pay special attention to the feeder. Through the mist I could see a succession of golden-bronze backs breaking the oily surface, several at a time, and right over my baited area about 20 yards out. By June 1990, with the capture of the first 11-pounder, the century-old bream record was looking precarious. It doesn’t give the full story, but there is more to be read about the start of this challenge, approach taken, fishing tactics applied, fishing rigs and the outcome of it all in a FREE online magazine ‘Off the Scale Angling’ available at www.offthescaleangling.ie–––Thanks for stopping by and watching my first ever YouTube video, it's much appreciated. Located in the South of Co Mayo. Fly fishing is a particularly effective method for fishing for brown trout and the mayfly season is without doubt the most important fly fishing period on the lough. This was pure torture. Lough Mask is a large limestone lough of 22,000 acres in area and, along with Lough Corrib, is one of the best known brown trout fisheries in Ireland. The property has garden views and is 6.2 miles from Ashford Castle and 8.1 miles from Raunaskerra Ringfort. Home » Boat hire » Lakes » Boat hire on Irish Lakes Lough Mask Halls Angling Centre David & Helen Hall, Cahir Bay, Cushlough, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo. By noting dates, water and air temperature, catch results, successful baits, and any other useful, additional notes, a great deal of information can be gathered over a period of time. With NaGlack so close by, I thought I may as well repeat Norman’s experiment and bait up that same rickety wooden stand, which at that time was submerged following heavy rain. This was to prove a very productive partnership, with Jimmy supplying transport, bait and tackle, in the knowledge that a primed swim awaited him each morning. We caught skimmers at Corstown in daylight, then moved briefly to Monalty after dark, where we lit a campfire, cooked a fry-up and drank a few illicit beers. The Mayfly dominate the fishing in Cong from mid-May to late in June. They obligingly grew bigger throughout the 1980s, as first 8lbs, then 9lbs and finally 10lbs fish became commonplace. Lough NaGlack, now sadly devoid of fish following pollution. Fortunately I also had a yellow washing-up bottle-top in my pocket to act as a bite indicator – ubiquitous accessories in those innocent days. I calmed down, and panic gave way to concentration and anticipation. Bream move in shoals making them popular with anglers as catching one means there are more to follow. Each dusk brought hundreds of noisy crows to roost in the ancient trees, and the silhouettes of graveyard headstones added to the unsettling and oppressive effect. Fred Foster and Norman witnessed one memorable catch, when I likened the bream to drunken football supporters, as they advanced up the channel towards us. The average size is 1 lb 3 oz but 3 lb fish are common and it holds a big stock of ferox trout to over 20 lb. With hindsight, it was probably an occasion when a huge catch was achievable with careful feeding, but at the time I was actually relieved when finally the motionless bobbin indicated that the fish had moved on. Soon Jim was joining me for early morning sessions, and he really caught the bug. However, I was totally unprepared for the sight that greeted me on parting those dripping reeds and climbing onto the stand. However, its emotional hold on me was too strong, and I would pay an occasional pilgrimage after a session at Monalty.
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