These peaceable, big fellas are plankton feeders, and they congregate in large numbers off Ireland's southern and western coasts, where biologist Simon Berrow is collecting data with a sponge and mop handle that may allow scientists for the first time to understand more about their lifecycles, numbers and migration patterns. Basking sharks are the second [...]
Ireland Fishing
Farmer’s Field Flooded with Mackerel in Ireland
If only Gordon Flinn liked the taste of mackerel, the accident that occurred on his farm might been a blessing.A truck overturned and spilled tons of mackerel onto his lawn. Crews are working to clean up the mess, which left mackerel two feet deep in some places. "It really was like something out of the [...]
Irish Specimen Fish Committee Celebrate Four New Records for 2011
This looks like a fishing celebration that I would never want to miss.The Irish Specimen Fish Committee just released their report for 2011 and it included four new fish records for roach/rudd hybrid, blackmouth dogfish, spur dogfish, and thin-lipped mullet. According the Irish Times, their awards ceremony will take place on March 3. Another ceremony [...]
Record Tuna Caught on the Fly in Australia
There's a new longtail tuna record for 16-pound tippet thanks to Mark Weeks and his guide, Mark Bargenquast. Weeks was in Australia from Tokyo, Japan when he landed the 40-plus-pound longtail off the Fraser Coast. His fish breaks the standing record by more than 10 pounds. Bargenquast, owner of Fraser Guided Fishing, put Weeks on the fish in [...]
Predator Ireland: Hamish Currie’s Amazing fishing charter out of Northern Ireland
Every now and then we find a charter skipper's fishing site that really blows us away. That's the case with Hamish Currie's Predator Ireland, which makes port north of Belfast in picturesque Cushendall, right on the glens of Antrim. Hamish specializes in catch-and-release fishing in the stormy Irish sea for Shark, Cod, Pollack, Mackerel, Whiting, [...]
Boston’s New Full-Time Fish Enforcement Officers
Boston poachers are going to have a hard time breaking the law this year. Boston has hired a new full-time team of fisheries enforcement officers. Boston's Environment Agency decided that this was the best way to thwart illegal fishing activities, instead of continuing the traditional system of seasonal part-time officers. The new full time force [...]
Australian Tuna Anglers Hit Water Before BP Testing
I believe any angler from the Gulf of Mexico and sympathize with the Australians who are hitting the water hard for tuna right now.According to the Australian tuna Association, anglers have already brought in 700 tons of their 4,500 quota, trying to target the fish before BP starts seismic testing the area for oil. BP [...]
Irish Salmon Poaching Gangs Attacking Policemen
In Northern Ireland, gangs of salmon poachers are attacking police who are preventing the criminals from using nets to illegally catch fish. The poachers have dropped a concrete block on a patrol boat from a bridge, thrown stones at cars, and confronted authorities with knives and weapons. Police say that the violence just keeps escalating and [...]
Huge Pike From Ireland
Ireland could give American pike fishermen a run for their money. This 24-pound, 12-ounce pike was taken on a rainbow trout bait in Northern Ireland's Lough Allen. According to Fishing Mega Store's blog, where it was submitted as an entry for Fish of the Month, it was taken in a heavy downpour. – Rick Bach These [...]
For the First Time in 100 Years, Salmon Return to River in Dublin
Wild salmon are reproducing in Ireland's Tolka River in Dublin for the first time in more than a century. The river is the third within the city's limits to boast wild stocks of Atlantic salmon. The Liffey and Dodder rivers are the other two. Ireland's chief executive of inland fisheries called the revival of the [...]
