Seasons Greetings

From the seasonally appropriate snowy Boyle, Angling Services Ireland would like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year and Tight Lines for 2010!

No Fishing here then for a while...

Floods!

Just when things where going great, somebody seems to have forgotten to turn off the tap.
Yes, it's been raining here for the last two weeks nearly everyday and waterlevels in the whole system are higher than I ever seen them before and a lot of venues are totally flooded!
All the fresh water has also cooled down our lakes and rivers by several degrees and the water temperature in many place is only at around 6 degrees Celsius and this also has resulted in the pike fishing somehow deteriorating over the last week. Having said that for those who want to brave the elements there is scope to pick up some big pike still. Deadbaiting in particular has yielded some good results for anglers in the region.

Big Fish Time!

Regular guests Gerd, Wolfgang, Michael and Martin from Germany were once again over for a five day trip with Angling Services Ireland. Despite the terrible weather conditions and the fast rising waterlevels of the past week the group had some great fishing with a number of big pike caught during their fishing days with guide Bodo Funke. Biggest of the week was Wolfgangs cracking fish weighing 25 lbs.

Michael had one of 23lbs. Guide Bodo also produced a fish of about 22lbs, measuring 107cm.

These great twenties were followed by a number of good doubles and smaller fish.

The guys were once again great fun to be out with and really showed extreme perseverance under the adverse conditions. It goes to show that it pays to be patient and stick it out.

All photos should soon appear on our Photo gallery page. Here is a preview of some of the best fish:

Good Autumn Fishing

Sorry for the delay in getting this update, but thankfully we were busy fishing over the past week or so.

Despite the very changeable weather and the occasionally atrocious conditions the fishing over the past few weeks was pretty good with a lot of good fish getting caught by our clients and elsewhere in the region.

Last week we had Nathy Gilligan and his friend George Palmer, both living in Mayo, out on a long promised guided trip. After a very wet and slow start, the day improved somewhat with Pike up to 17lbs coming to their lures.

Next up we had Don Teaff from North-Carolina, USA out for a day fly fishing for pike with guide Bodo Funke. The pike were really up for it that day smashing into our pike flies fished on floating lines. Don had 10 pike with two of them being double figure fish weighing 16 and 19.5lbs.

The water temperature on most lakes in the region is between 11 and 12.5 Celsius at the moment while the weather is still very mild.

New Website Live!

We are delighted to announce that as from this morning, we have our brand new re-designed website live on the net. Have a look at: www.anglingservicesireland.com
and see what you think. We have some new content and features on the site and of course I think the face-lift is also a massive improvement. Thanks to our web designer Sean at firebird web design, who did a great job here once again.
This blog will run as news/updates part of the new site, where we will post any news, catch reports, special offers and any other interesting items.
For now Tight Lines!!!

Autumn approaching - The Pike are calling!

Autumn is approaching and with the cooler nights it won't be long now till the pike fishing starts to pick up in earnest. Even though the summer here never really materialised, instead of hot weather and warm water temperatures we had to put up with constant rain, strong winds and flooded angling venues.

So I can't wait now to get stuck in some proper pike fishing, let's hope the weather will be kind and that this will be good season. Watch this space.....

Just to remind myself, this is kind of what we are looking for:

Fishy stuff

Sorry for the long absence.

Here is a few pics from my parttaking in Predatortour earlier this year: