Jr Comp 2012

Hi All
The Jr Comp was held on Sunday 22nd April we had a good turn out with numbers up from last year,
Everyone caught some fish and all got a prize at the end of the day, all went home happy.
From frogs to trout to salmon & deer nature was out in force to occupy young minds and if they got bored with all that there was always a tree to climb or a puddle to splash in.
Conor Callaghan caught his first trout during the competition which made him quite happy and Daddy quite proud.
Some of the more experienced lads are off with Johnny Brennan to fish in the Leinster Jr comp on lough Owel best of luck lads we all hope you have a great day.
Hope to see all of you on the river soon with a lot of rain on the way the fishing should be much better in the coming weeks.
Tight Lines.

A good turn out all raring to get fishing

Conor with his first trout and proud Dad on hand to help                                                   

Hawthorn Cup (Trout League Round 2)

Hi All
The Leixlip Anglers were greeted with a fine day for this round of the Trout league.
The Rye was again quite low for this time of year and the temprature had dropped well down from the balmy conditions we had for the Paddy's day comp, but this was not to deter the Leixlip anglers with again a good turn out for the league.
The hatch was very sporadic with some olives coming off late in the afternoon, with the breeze blowing them away quite quickly a sheltered spot was the order of the day for some dry fly fishing.
Michael Callaghan won this round of the Trout League with a lovely 13 inch Trout to the dry fly in tough conditions. This was Michael's maiden win in a competition with the Leixlip Anglers (well fishing competition anyway he won the tackle tart of the year last year) Well done Michael those prayers to the God of fishing did not go unanswered.

Michael Callaghan finally got his hands on the cup The Hawthorn Cup that is, he had to wait a while but it got here in the end. It was formally presented to him by Kevin McLaughlin at the last Trout League night. Well done Michael.