The Intel Trophy

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The Intel Trophy was fish last night on the Rye and a fine evening greeted a fine turnout, all were in good spirits. The river was a little low but nothing to complain about and a good hatch came on at about 10pm in some parts of the river other parts saw no hatch at all. Dermot Mitchell won this competition with 8 fish for 80 inches overall length, Jason Nolan was 2nd with 5 fish for 49 inches and Aidan Crean & Kevin Tipper were joint 3rd with 38 inches each. Donal Connelly caught the largest fish of the evening at 15.5 inches and Dermot took the most fish bonus point. All enjoyed the event spent by the river even if some spent most of the evening yapping rather than fishing (thats the Leixlip Anglers for you a good yap is as important as a good fish). Heres some pictures taken on the evening.
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 Dermot presented with the Intel Trophy by Aidan Crean 

A few hardy anglers darkness never stopped a good fishing story

Intel Trophy

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The Intel Trophy is on this weekend, Sunday to be exact meet in Intel football pitch car park @ 6:30 fishing from 7 - 11 pm.

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The First Salmon of the Year Trophy

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The Leixlip Anglers got to award a Trophy this year which hasn't been awarded for many years. The First Salmon of the year by a Leixlip Anglers member and it went to none other than Brian Coffey who's already caught a few salmon on the Liffey this year, well done Brian. Its great to see this trophy awarded again and since the lifting of the Salmon fishing ban on the Liffey to allow catch and release Brian has shown many of us how fruitful Salmon fishing can be on the Liffey.

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Brian Coffey presented with his trophy by Aidan Crean LADAA Chairperson  

Leixlip Festival Competition 2015

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The Festival competition was fished on Friday 28th May, a cool evening greeted a fine turn out for the comp. Cold weather or not none were to be discouraged with the majority of anglers catching some fish. There wasn't much of a rise but some good fish were caught the biggest of which was 16 inches caught by the winner Kevin Tipper, Dermot Mitchell was 2nd and has now opened a decent gap at the top of the Trout League and Anton Hokera was 3rd well done to all who caught fish on a difficult night. The trophy was presented at the Salmon Leap Pub on the Monday evening Below are some pictures taken on the night & at the presentation on Monday.
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All in good form and happy to be fishing, it seems Martin Murray has hooked a photographer (pity they don't count, he was a big one).

Kevin with his winning fish

Kevin presented with his Trophy at the Salmon Leap Pub

A good turn out for the presentation

May On The Rye

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Chris Haines was back out on the river recently he sent us in a post & a few pictures of fish he's caught recently.
Chris wrote;
Well after four fruitless sessions in April and May I finally connected to some good trout on the Rye thanks to the recent sedge hatches. Last night I had a better fish but did not weigh or measure it. I estimate it at 16 inches and one of the best trout I have had on the Rye. Unfortunately it had a legion and some damage to its tail area but a nice fish all the same. Sedge pattern worked well and thanks to Jason for the advice 3 days previously. Attached photos of three different fish.Chris.

Thanks for the update Chris if anyone has any more photos feel free to send them in and we will post them for you.

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May update

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Sorry for the delays in updates we were so busy with the Liffey shield preparations we completely forgot to up date the Trout League Table, well its done now with Dermot sitting on top at the moment check out the Trout league page to view. On Liffey shield news after all the hard work by so many members the river was a wash out, the night before the competition the river flooded so it doesn't matter how hard you work at something if mother nature doesn't want it happening she will stop it.
The Liffey Shield will now be rescheduled for later in the year. In other news even though we have been caught in perpetual winter the fishing has still proved good with some fine catches being reported and some real red letter days being had down on the river lately, heres a few pics from April & May below

Kevin Tipper had this fine 18 inch Trout at the end of April

Gianluca had this nice 16 inch trout during May

Jason had this 14 3/4 inch Trout Yesterday

Liffey Shield Preparations

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The preparations for the hosting the Liffey Shield are going well the river has been pruned from Yellow Walls Bridge to the confluence it took 3days to complete, a very large well done to the lads who got stuck in over the past week you did a really good job.
However the work isn't finished yet we will still need to do a clean up there is rubbish in the river at several points which will need to come out before the 9th May, we could do with all hands who can spare a few hours to help, we will schedule it for next weekend and confirm with a text during the week as to which day, time etc, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Also as the river is now in prime condition for fishing, if anyone is down fishing and see any rubbish / branches in the river by all means remove them, every little helps.

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