Angling Notes: Casting for healing – breast cancer retreat at Mount Falcon property - Irish instances

Casting for healing UK and eire, the fly fishing programme for girls with breast melanoma, held a retreat at the Mount Falcon property at Ballina, Co Mayo, remaining weekend. 9 girls joined the residential retreat to learn the fundamentals of fly casting as well as attending counselling and scientific assist groups.

The programme is administered through The geographical region Alliance foundation and the pleasing formula of fly fishing, counselling and clinical advice, promotes mental and actual curative to ladies whose lives had been profoundly affected by breast cancer.

The weekend proved an important success and tremendously stronger through the crew offering a cheque for €2,000 to support cover fees of the charitable challenge. The volume became raised via a fundraising lunch on the inn all through Breast melanoma recognition Month last October.

Programme director Jill Grieve stated: "The women had an incredible weekend and we are grateful to Val and Jim Wilson and the Mount Falcon group for making us so welcome. All we need to do is help these women and give them an exciting weekend where they can make new friends and gain knowledge of a brand new skill."

Salmon aquaculture analysis Dr Liam Carr, a Fulbright student on the Whittaker Institute in NUIG, invitations salmon lovers to finished a survey in opposition t his analysis on salmon aquaculture in ireland. The survey is nameless and private, and will be used best for analysis applications.

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Workshop on River Trusts at the side of the Irish overseas Fly fair, the Dibney River Conservation trust and Atlantic Salmon trust invite you to attend a workshop on The role and Formation of River Trusts in eire, on Friday, July 1st, from 9.30am to 4pm, within the Killyleagh group Centre, Killyleagh, Co Down.

Attendance is free but areas are confined and need to be booked on line – (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-role-formation-of-river-trusts-in-ireland-tickets-25473938235).

The targets of the workshop are to collect existing river trusts in eire and people planning on forming trusts, and to ask the various bodies worried with rivers to supply information on roles where river trusts may play a vital half in retaining our community of rivers and streams.

The agenda will include a morning session with a bunch of speakers detailing the work of current river trusts. A theme-based plenary session will form the basis for the afternoon session.

Professor Ken Whelan of the Atlantic Salmon believe will chair the assembly.

route on fly tying and fly casting Peter O'Reilly, one of ireland's main authorities on salmon fishing, will provide a fly-tying and fly-casting route at Aasleagh lodge, River Erriff, Co Galway, on the weekend of June 17th to nineteenth.

As spaces are restricted, early booking is really helpful. further details available at +353 95 42208 or info@aasleaghlodge.ie.

more suitable circumstances on the Weir Water levels at last dropped to one gate on the Weir in Galway, with much better circumstances for fly fishers, and grilse performing in better numbers in the river with 15 landed.

Water conditions are incredible now and with the grilse run starting, prospects for the arrival weeks are very decent.

challenging occurring the Erriff On the Erriff, supervisor Osgur Grieve referred to fishing changed into hard going, with water ranges shedding to 0.6m at one aspect. Anglers fished tough in these circumstances and finally Stephen Sayer from the united kingdom caught a sparkling fish weighing 3kg on a Cascade. Leigh Hookes, additionally from UK, had an excellent salmon of 5.2kg on a Black Frances. Bookings: 095-42208. Anglers frustrated On Corrib, Declan Gibbons mentioned within the Cornamona enviornment fishing has, to this point, been terrible typical with no big hatches of mayfly. Many anglers have been left frustrated having spent many hours fishing with out even seeing a fish!

climate conditions haven't helped, with northerly and easterly winds (or no wind in any respect) and vivid sunshine hampering average mayfly fishing. youngsters, buzzer fishing is producing the odd respectable fish.

masks angling challenging It was the same story on masks with mixed stories because the mayfly season should be in full swing. Sparse hatches of fly, coupled with shiny sunshine and a continuing exchange in wind path, made mayfly fishing very elaborate. situations for the latter half of remaining week suited wets and dries; regrettably an easterly wind took grasp and made angling greater challenging. mind-blowing fishing on Arrow Anglers on Arrow pronounced brilliant fishing the place dry fly and dapping labored premiere with many respectable-sized trout caught. Ricky Fabozzi and Jim Henry had 30 trout over four, gold standard 1.1kg, in general on Golden Olive Bumble and Sooty Dabblers. somewhere else, local angler Yvonne Frazer caught a gorgeous 1.3kg fish dapping. exciting day out in Killala On the ocean-fishing entrance, a bunch of anglers set out from Killala Harbour with charter skipper Donal Kennedy and enjoyed their day fishing for dab, plaice and some fine turbot. relocating to sheltered waters resulted in cod and pollack to 3kg, and pouting, coalfish and gurnard.

To publication fishing in Killala Bay, contact Donal on +353 (0)086 8174509 or dkennedyangling.internet.

Condolences Belated condolences are prolonged to the household of Tom Lillis who passed away lately in Portugal. all through his reign as chairman of the Irish Federation of Sea Anglers, our paths crossed consistently and i always found him to be a real gentleman and chum. Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam dílis.

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