Boards.ie is a discussion board with a wide range of forums, including - but not limited to -, We have updated the GDPR policy and Terms of Use. Moon Phases: CURRENT MOON. plus a number who were quick to step in themselves to "discourage" poachers. As in other parts of the world, the main two species of carp you’ll catch are the common carp and mirror carp. It is a quiet 15-acre complex with three lakes that anglers can use with a day ticket. Euro nymphing with Tenkara? The main lake is two acres approx and is currently stocked with carp, tench, golden tench, orfe, bream, roach and rudd. One particular lake I have fished on and off since childhood contains just twenty or so carp in nearly ten acres of rich, weed-filled water. Next Last. Hosted Holidays. Watch Queue Queue Very tight. #beresponsible #besafe #leavenotrace #catchandrelease. Thread starter corkycat; Start date Oct 23, 2020; 1; 2; 3; Next. New posts Newsdesk News from Fish & Fly and Forum Admin. Irish shore angling is among the best in Europe. Was on the syndicate the year it opened. For a detailed look into the fragmented history of carp in Ireland please consult Brazier et al. A superbly conditioned Mirror Carp that tipped the scales just over twenty two pounds, my first Mirror and a personal best too. Start with some float fishing or feeder fish where you have to strike the bites as appose to the fish hooking themselves on bolt rigs , so many young anglers getting into the sport are jumping straight into carp fishing after seeing it on TV. Welcome to Boards.ie; here are some tips and tricks to help you get started. My Carp rod performed impeccably as I guided the fish away from the islands and into the net. But if someone could PM a few hints in the right direction it would be much appreciated and certainly worth a pint! However, the fishing is hard due to a low stock of fish, high natural food levels, profuse weed growth and poor bank access, also a common trait of Irish lakes! Over a thousand acres of water with an unknown amount of carp to an unknown size, quite possibly over the existing Irish record and most people’s personal bests, with very little carp angling presence. This video is unavailable. They may not be the biggest but you can gurantee a run. Undoubtedly, in parallel with the rest of the world, fishing for carp will continue to increase in popularity, as will the number of lakes providing good sport. Please ensure that you do not click on any links contained within. Not too far from Dublin either. moon info. Despite landing many the mystery is still there though and some of the stock is still uncaught due to a lack of angling pressure. New user? This summer fished well, particularly for roach and hybrids, with some good bream catches from waters with a bit of colour. it is called "paddy mc's" i have been fishing it for a few years. While some of the information may be slightly dated (eg bass are becoming more common north of Galway and Dublin than when these maps were drawn up), by and large the maps will continue to be a valuable resource to anglers. Carp is a common name for various species of freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.They have been introduced to various locations around the world, though with mixed results. Click the links for latest Covid-19 guidelines and information. NCFFI Living with Covid 19. Where else, I ask you, would you be able to find such unknown and unspoilt carp fishing in this day an age? Copyright © 2000 - 2020 Boards.ie Limited (Hosted by Digiweb Hosting), Welcome to Boards.ie; here are some tips and tricks to help you get started. They have persisted in the wild in various locations, both naturally and with the help of human movements, with the sole purpose of surviving to an age at which they can reproduce and spawn the next generation. Watch Queue Queue. Most notably of all though is that they are extremely hard to catch, regardless of size, and offer an incredibly rewarding challenge. There are four types of carp in Ireland. SPACE, FACE, HANDS. As already touched upon, being our immediate neighbours and unarguably among the carp capitals of the world, Irish anglers are acutely aware of the fact that most coarse species (especially carp) grow far larger in England and mainland Europe. You can read the announcement and access links to the revised policies, We have added a small update to the Terms of Use. Yesterday at 8:37 PM; morayfisher; Ear to the Ground. For all the latest news of interest to fly fishers. With the advent of social media, in addition to the more traditional angling press, one cannot avoid seeing pictures of men and women holding up carp of 30, 40, 50, hell, even up to 80 or 90lb carp on an incredibly regular basis. Looking back, Glenvale has been such a success, we’ve... read more. Again, I’ll stress that when talking about carp fishing in Ireland we need to be objective. This is what wild creatures are programmed to do. Northern Ireland Carp Anglers Society, Northern Ireland. Sure I love the thought that the next bite could be from some unseen Leviathan, and purposely fish some waters where this is a possibility, but often it doesn’t diminish the experience if such a creature fails to materialise. Please don’t misinterpret; I am not bad-mouthing UK or modern carp angling scene, just stating some home truths. Fly Fishing News & Features. Water clarity requires a different approach; use a dark groundbait and get lots of particle into your swim (stewed wheat is great). Who is online? Fishing in Ireland – Catch the unexpected Your Essential Guide To Coarse Angling In Ireland If you’ve ever dreamt about a coarse angling trip to Ireland and wondered how you can turn that dream into reality, then the answer is at your fingertips. Ireland really is an angling paradise and whatever your expectations we can help you have a brilliant fishing holiday. Any angler who catches an Irish carp and is disappointed at its size in relation to its overseas brethren should, I think, re-evaluate why exactly they are targeting carp (or any fish for that matter) in the first place. These are the fully scaled common carp, the mirror carp, which has relatively few scales and a smooth body surface, the linear carp, with scales along the lateral line only and the leather carp which are totally scale less and also very rare. What Irish Carp angling dreams are made of! You can only catch what’s in front of you. Fly Fishing Forum UK. Sea Fishing Airport Hotels With Parking ... Coarse Fishing; Ireland; Co. Cork; Co. Cork . Record weight: 14.24kg, Loughgall, Armagh. LOUGH MUCKNO, CASTLEBLAYNEY This big lake recently hosted the European Coarse Angling Championships on the newly developed Concra Wood Stretch. The salmon and trout can be caught in most rivers with runs of salmon starting in the spring through to autumn. Sure, the physical size of the fish may be much smaller but the carp fishing experience is surely greater? Forums. 1 of 3 Go to page. Want 11,000+ anglers a day to see your product or service? Prebait is an angling / fishing social utility that connects people with friends and others who fish the same coarse fishing venues around them. by NICAS Admin | Apr 3, 2016 | News Update. Start Of New Season 2016 -2017 . It has been highlighted that many users received a spam PM last night in the early hours. Of course, there are other reasons why the vast majority of carp in Ireland struggle to reach weights above 20lb – a home-grown ‘twenty’ still being a dream fish for most carp enthusiasts. The addition of Glenvale brought with it a year of hard graft and unprecedented stockings prior to its opening in 2016. But, some anglers love tackling mega hard waters to achieve a greater feeling when finally bagging one. Take Inniscarra Reservoir in Co. Cork for example. Lakes where the only company you may have for a whole year worth of trips amounts to the local farmer and the wildlife sharing the water with the fish; lakes where the fish have no names; lakes where the weights of the fish aren’t recorded in a log book and aren’t known before the carp is even in the landing net; lakes where the carp have survived for years and years on natural diets and where there exact numbers are complete conjecture; lakes where the carp are often uncaught or rarely captured, immaculately conditioned and look like they have been carved from a piece of wood. These days I would like to consider myself an all-rounder, not a particularly competent one but an enthusiastic one nonetheless. Fishing for large carp can be a serious waiting game, but after four bite less hours, one of my alarms screamed out and I was soon playing an obviously sizeable fish. If so, then you know what time of year it is! All that matters to them is to grow to a size at which they can avoid predation and then breed. Although fishing in Ireland is predominantly known for its coarse fishing, game fishing holidays in Ireland fishing for atlantic salmon and sea trout is also very popular, with many anglers taking their fishing holiday in Ireland year after year. What a busy two year it has been for the Northern Ireland Carp Anglers Society! Is it a case of recollecting through rose tinted glasses? Keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos of their fishing trips, share and videos, and learn more about the venues they fish. If you have a notification that you have a PM, but none in your inbox, please send a message to yourself and read that, and that should clear it up. My obsession was borne out of sheer fascination for what, at the time, was a comparatively rare fish in Irish waters;  at a time when the average coarse angler on the bank would struggle to name more than half a dozen lakes containing carp on the entire island. for over 50 years. Carp Ireland fishing forum : Home Portal* Register Log in : Gallery. Fast forward almost twenty years and a lot has changed in Ireland, not least the fishing. By continuing For sure, we are at a turning point for Irish carping. Tyecon Regular member. CarpForum - The UK Carp Fishing Forum. it is a very challenging lake but i love it. Information, chat and advice Already registered? The same can be said of Northern Ireland, too. 2.6K likes. Joined Dec 2, 2018 Messages 243. This is the form of fishing on which much of Ireland’s international sea angling reputation has been built. Hello all, from the sunny south coast ( not today though ) By Carpmaster, November 16; UK Carp Fishing. I have been very fortunate in my life to have fished some truly special waters around the country in search of Cyprinus carpio, catching by design from almost thirty venues and counting. Are you finding excuses to escape into your garage just to tie a few rigs? Carp fishing is improving all the time in Ireland, thanks to a steady increase in the number of dedicated fisheries. Surely this is one of the most important aspects of fishing – the thrill of the chase? In total there is 1 user online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 1 Guest :: 1 Bot None [ View the whole list] Most users ever online was 93 on Sun Jul 21 2013, 10:56. PJ, There are plenty of waters where anglers can go and catch all year round. Storm Beaches. Click HERE to see how: Home: Who's Online: Member List: Gallery: Downloads: Fish Ins: Weather: Rules / Usage: Help / FAQs: Search: Articles: The Carp Shop: Navigation: \\ HOME. While we aim to keep you … Threads 2.5K Messages 9.1K. NCFFI Guidelines. Irish Carp Fishing Forum. it isnt stocked or maintained as far as i know but i do know that there is some tasty fish in there. Is catching 20lb carp from a lake with lots of twenty pounders any more of an achievement than a 10lb’er from a venue with very few doubles? Incidentally, it is worth noting that Irish specialists who target other coarse species such as bream and tench, both of which grow to literally twice the size in England, rarely, if ever, complain or worry that their catches don’t measure up in contrast…. Carp Fishing in Ireland As I said, you can only catch (or try to catch) what is in front of you. So, am I saying this is a bad thing, do I lament the ‘good old days’ of Irish carp fishing where we had less carp and less carp waters? Our contemporary stocks largely derive from populations whose ancestors existed in the early to mid-1900s. The old angling adage of ‘you can only catch what’s in front of you’ rings true here. Why bust a gut to fish an Irish lough for session after session to ‘only’ have a meagre double figure fish as your prize? Reply. Sea Fishing Maps for Ireland. The lads there are bang on too very helpful. The are few venues with carp in Ireland but commercial fisheries are becoming more popular. Presently there is an increasing number of club-controlled waters around the country which are beginning, through sound fishery management (something not really ever applied by the authorities to Irish lakes containing carp), to produce bigger and bigger carp. It’s just a bit of a session to pass some time . You can read the announcement with details. Maynooth fishery and corkagh park fishery in Clondalkin are the only two carp fisheries close to Dublin. A defeatist or an angling pessimist would look on carp fishing in Ireland as a waste of time because the carp are too few and too small to warrant a second look. I am also not insinuating that we should all be happy fishing for 10lb carp forever, far from it. . Carp will get larger, be they Irish, French or English strains, or crosses somewhere in between. If you're new to the carp forum you can introduce yourself to the Carp.com community. All things fishing & boating. 6k posts. Also catching trout but we gave them to the local lads where were fishing for them for the table. to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Co. Cork Cork's Inniscarra Lake is part of the River Lee system and is again bursting with bream! More did, of course, exist but the vagueness and secrecy surrounding their whereabouts meant tracking them down was like trying to complete a jigsaw with most of the pieces missing! what do you mean crap fishing in ireland maybe your a carp fisher man......... sorry i couldnt resist, Please sign up or log in to join the discussion, Boards.ie uses cookies. Representing the coarse angling. Genetics play a large role (which is what is manipulated and altered in a stock of fish through artificial selection), as does environment and climate. There can be little doubt, we are truly blessed with some of the best looking carp in the world. I feel they are missing out on the essence of fishing and I bet if you handed them a float rod and end tackle they would struggle . If you receive such a message, please report it by clicking the little warning triangle and delete once you have done so. It doesn’t matter how small the carp is compared to anywhere else because it is what it is. The carp though are as wild as any in the country, born and bred in their natural environment and invariably look absolutely fantastic. Click here to find out more, Top 10 Questions and Answers for new Boards.ie users, Here are some useful resources to help you understand the coronavirus as well as what precautions you should take, http://www.carpfishingireland.com/ca...ight=paddy+mac. Carp fishing in Ireland https://www.facebook.com/SimonsCarpFishingTripsTips/ https://www.instagram.com/simons_carp_fishing_trips/ Carp now seem to be appearing all over the place in low numbers and there are an increasing amount of commercial fisheries with high densities of the fish. Sorry i realise that the nature of finding a good lake might be difficult and that the locations might be kept secret and not posted on a thread. True yes/no? Fishing time! Unlike practically every other country containing carp, no dedicated breeding programmes have ever been conducted in Ireland to encourage faster growth rates or larger ultimate sizes – what is termed scientifically as ‘artificial selection’. Not to me it doesn’t. From years of observation (and some captures!) This series of sea angling maps was developed by the Promotion and Marketing staff of the CFB in the 1980’s. i read that it was/is heavily poached. New user? C. corkycat Regular member. Anglers in the UK, if the ones I know are anything to go by, are crying out for waters such as this, and we have them in comparative plenty. Maynooth, very shallow, intensely fished, small man made lake. Fishing. Carp fishing holidays with CarpEscapes. Discussions on all aspects of carp fishing in the UK including questions, answers and all other related subjects. However, the optimist, or more precisely the realist, sees beyond mere pounds and ounces and perceives the carp in Ireland for what they are – another beautiful, mystical fish. | Home » Coarse Fishing in Ireland » Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Specimen weight: 5.4 kg (12 lb). No, not necessarily, for, in my opinion, there is so much mystery still attached to the majority of carp in Ireland and that is, largely, what drives my angling as a whole. One of the great experiences of Irish sea-angling is to fish a west coast storm beach when a big surf is running. – two or three fish over 20lb swim there, but that does not detract one bit from enjoying my fishing. Canada Trent Severn Ontario. Most Irish coarse anglers have seen and often caught carp by now – they are infinitely more accessible than they once were. The largest lake, Swan Lake, is the most popular for carp; some catches have weighed up to 40 pounds. Another venue I have fished a great deal in the past has never produced a bona fide twenty pounder – a common characteristic of many lakes in Ireland. The carp have been pretty much left to their own devices and in nature, achieving big weights (such as those we are bombarded with from the UK media on a daily basis) is not an advantage. 125.5k posts. I also had a Tench at slightly below 4lbs which are quite rare in Lough Gall. But that was all part of the fun….