Ireland's Blackwater Lodge Salmon Fishery proprietor Ian Powell looks at the results for the 2009 season & reaches some interesting conclusions.


The Biggest Fish Ever since 1986?
On September 15th. last, Tony Murtagh from Co. Dublin landed & released a fish estimated at approx. 25lb. weight.
This huge fish was taken on spinner on the Island Stream on Beat 6 - Lower Kilmurry.
The fish was rather coloured but fin perfect and very well conditioned – being very deep bodied & broad-backed.
It was quickly released without even a picture being taken as they had no camera & no weigh net!
It measured 96cm (38") long with an estimated girth of 50cm (20").    more ...

FishThailand.co.uk is the latest fishing website review to be added to Fishing-Fan.co.uk

FishThailand.co.uk is a fishing holiday website, offering packaged fishing tours in Thailand. Read the full review of the site here.

Another cool fishing site I've just come across is www.fishkeep.net.

This is looking to build a fishing community, with venues that can be rated, articles, forum, and the ability for members to have their own blog!

Aside from that there's a good amount of fishing content there, with some good articles and interesting carp and trout fishing venues, which seem to be from around the country, rather than just centralized in one area as is often the case.

My third cool fishing site is AA Angling.co.uk a new fishing website from Essex.

The AA are the initials of the father and son fishing reporters who run the site. The sites looks great and is nicely laid out. As it's new there's only a few pages a present, but there's already some venues and reports. Worth a quick visit, especially if you go fishing in Essex.

Salmon Fishing Report from the Cork Blackwater

www.ireland-salmon-fishing.net


The river came up yet again after heavy rain in the last 2 days.
Graph above shows the height up & down river.
The upper river has already fallen well back, but is still very dirty.
The lower river peaked in the early hours of this morning, & is falling albeit rather slowly.
Clarity throughout is about 6 inches as of now.    more ...

The latest cool site of the moment (and in fact my second so far) is find-a-lake.com.

I spotted this site, when it was recently added to my uktopsites listing. The site does what it says in the url, it allows you to search for lakes, in the UK and abroad. You can search via county and type which brings up a list of lakes available with some brief details, with a link to more in depth info.

There's quite a few lakes listed (and hopefully this will grow in coverage), so if you're into lake fishing, it might be worth a look to see if you can spot a new venue to try out.

The latest website to receive the FishingFan Specimen website award is www.talkangling.co.uk.

The site has over 15,000 pages with many articles relating to match and coarse fishing. The administrator of talkangling also mentions that the forum is the busiest in the UK for match fishing with loads of the top pro anglers using the site on a daily basis.

Well worth a visit.

First up in my Cool Fishing Sites is www.fishingposts.com, a really friendly fishing forum (in fact I've not come across a friendly/well run forum of any kind so far.), run by a cool guy - "Toma" who also helps moderate the forums on Fishing-Fan.

Go take a look and sign up!

After a while in preparing the website for this, I'm introducing a new feature to Fishing-Fan.co.uk today.

This is the "Cool Fishing Site of the Moment". Which will represent the latest good looking, interesting, fun, or whatever Fishing Site that has that X Factor that make it COOL!

The Cool Site will feature at the top-ish part of Fishing-Fan's home page, and stay there till I pick so other Fishing Site to be the Coolest. Could be an hour, a day, a week or longer!    more ...

You may of noticed that recently when renewing your rod licence that you know longer got the magazine Reel Life sent to you through the post.

Well as well offering the ability to buy your rod licence online, they're moved this to an E-Zine, which they update 4 times a year. You can subscribe to this and see past issues of the E-Zine on the EA Website here.

What I particularly like about it is the ability to look for updates to fishing in your region, and online this is possible by selecting your part of the map.