Location: south of Ireland

On the coast you should find plenty of mullet around the harbours and creeks try float fishing with bread using ground cooked rice and mashed bread as an attractor. On the rivers you should find all species of coarse fish. On the north of England and Wales seatrout rivers, anglers are enjoying excellent sport. Don’t…

Grass carp [Species Menu] [Grass carp articles] Common name: Grass carp Latin name: Ctenopharygodon idella Record weight: In recent years no other record has been in as much danger as the grass carp. With several huge fish dotted around the country, the record has been broken on several occasions in recent seasons. The latest angler…

“The catch of Irish Salmon is on a fast downward spiral. The total catch has fallen from an annual 1600 tonnes in the seventies, through 1152 tonnes in the eighties, to 630 tonnes in the nineties and lower still today. This trend will lead to the extinction of Irish Wild Salmon by the end of…

For those of you who are keen ‘pleasure’ anglers the next step could be to try your hand at match fishing. Initially I would suggest fishing club competitions as opposed to jumping in at the deep end and entering highly competitive open competitions. I’ll now give you a few tips on how to get started.The…

Rigging bait so that it swims in a most natural manner or flutters enticingly in the tide is a skill much developed in other more exotic parts of the world, but it seems to be skill which is relatively undeveloped in our waters. Reading some words of “wisdom” recently in a UK paper magazine about…

It is also a most frustrating month, as I can never make up my mind what to go for! The rivers are fishing well, pike fishing is starting, carp are on the move and the shooting season is getting under way. I could do with having the whole month off work and making it twice…