The Irish Federation of Pike Anglers held their 2024 final at a venue in the Longford area last week. 52 anglers turned out for the yearly event, which sees the foremost pike anglers in the country compete for top honours and a place on the Irish team. A fine 18lb pike There were plenty of fish active on the day, as evidenced by the final tally of 496 caught. With nine bags in excess of 40lb, some anglers were kept pretty busy during the day. But as the numbers mounted up, it was some familiar faces that emerged at the top of the leaderboard, namely Mark, Jody & Alex Kiernan. It was a supe ..read more

The Lough Ree Lanesborough Angling Hub are thrilled to announce that the King Of The Lake 2024 International Pike Festival is open for entries. The event will be run over two days of fishing on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th of September 2024 – it is a boat fishing competition and anglers must be in a boat while fishing. Lure fishing, fly fishing and dead baits are the only methods allowed. Anglers may only use two rods. There must be at least two people in each boat and a maximum of three anglers and a maximum of four rods fishing at a time. Day 1:  Prizes for the longest cu ..read more

Continuing a long tradition, German angling writer Uwe Pinnau and his mates flew over to Dublin shortly after Easter to enjoy their annual irish fishing trip and hopeful of meeting some of those brave and hard fighting toothy beauties of the esox familiy, the waters on the emerald isle are famous for… As often the weather situation on the arrival was quite nice, but the further we approached towards our final destination in Cavan, the worse it went. When we finally arrived at Carafin Lodge, our host Pauric McGearty honestly admitted that the weather forecast wasn’t really promising and besides ..read more

Paul Bourke of Irish Fishing Tours tells us he was out with a couple of anglers on Lough Derg at the weekend. The windy conditions on Sunday limited the amount of spots they could fish but they made the best of it all the same. In the end the lads managed to get 8 pike to the boat today with the best going 102cms. 1 of 3 Go fishing… Irish Fishing Tours Irish Fishing Tours Address Garrykennedy Tipperary Irelandwork Mobile Phone: +353 87 1953554cell Email: vasb@vevfusvfuvatgbhef.pbzmoc.sruotgnihsifhsiri@ofniINTERNET Website: irishfishingtours.com Categories: Angling Guide, Pike Gui ..read more

Bodo Funke of Angling Services Ireland reports great flyfishing for pike from Boyle. First timers Remo and Frabrizio from Switzerland had a fantastic week’s pike fishing despite more than difficult conditions due to the strong and gusty winds which prevailed throughout their trip. Remo and guide Bodo with a great pike just under the 1m markA happy Remo with one of his many fly-caught pike The duo from Switzerland finished their week in the Boyle area with over 60 pike providing great sport on the fly. Remo and Fabrizio had over 60 pike between them with many in the 90cm plus and 80cm plus rang ..read more

After the recent rains, the Limerick County Pike Anglers had decided to fish a canal section for their 6th competition of the year, presuming that all the rivers would be running high and dirty. But on arriving at the canal section, they found the nearby river to be in surprisingly good order. So, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, it was decided to switch up plans and fish the river instead. They didn’t regret their decision, as they were rewarded with a very decent tally of 16 pike for 60lb, which proved to be the most successful outing of the year to date. Best anger on the day was Sa ..read more

Despite the bad weather including Storm Kathleen we have received a good report from Pascal Brissaud of Watermill Fishing Lodge on pike fishing during the last week. Three groups of French and Belgian fishermen visited Pascal recently at Watermill Lodge to fish for pike on Lough Erne. The first group of two fishermen caught 87 fish and the largest fish were 91 cm, 96 cm, 97 cm. The cherry on the cake was a super fish of 105 cm. The second group of four fishermen caught 132 pike, the largest of which measured 90 cm, 97 cm, 99 cm and 102 cm respectively. This week Belgian and French fishermen c ..read more

Here on Fishing in Ireland we are avid watchers of, and love sharing, Youtube videos about fishing, especially some of the talented Irish angling creators. Pike and carp angler Stephen McDonagh has a Youtube channel titled, naturally enough, Fishing With Steve, and his videos are some of the best we’ve seen. Incorporating footage from drones, underwater cameras, GoPro and static cameras, the production and editing is second to none, and he knows how to keep us interested. Two of Steve’s latest videos feature deadbaiting for pike, in late winter/spring just before he packed away his pike rods ..read more

Kevin Lyons of Melview Fishing Lodge reports… Regular anglers Jean–Pierre and Alain from Belgium were over once again for their first visit of 2024. These guys know the waters well as they come and stay at Melview Fishing Lodge two or three times a year and have been returning here since 2008. So it was nothing new for them to arrive and see the water levels very high and some areas in flood. However, this did not put them off as during their stay they managed 57 Pike to 97cm. Pike on dead bait for J.P. We were targeting the bigger ones at this time of the year but it was not to be on this tri ..read more

Whitewood Pike Angling Club had their first outing of 2024 at the weekend, as 21 members dusted off their rods to head to Cavan for the day. They nominated three small lakes as the competition venues and anglers could pick and choose where they wanted to fish over the course of the day. There were no real monsters, but there were decent numbers, as they managed to land a respectable 143 pike on the day, with a couple of doubles, including a 14lb 2oz fish for Mark Kiernan which turned out to be the best fish of the day. Full results are as follows: 1st John Sheenan 15 fish 47-8. 2nd Shipwreck ..read more