Hi All
The Intel Trophy was fished on Sunday a rainy evening greeted the anglers who turned out for an evenings fishing and a bit of craic.
A good turn out on the night with everyone catching some fish and enjoying the evening even if it was raining.
One angler reckoned it would be drier under water than it was above, he was wrong, we wont call it fell in more lost his balance and instead of fighting it accepted his faith and sat down a wet but wise choice.
Kevin Tipper won the event with a fine haul of 69 inches with Aidan Crean 2nd & Gianluca 3rd.
Well done Kevin and all who braved the weather for a good evening on the Rye.
The League table is now up to date with a double haul of points to be added to it (the festival comp points and the intel trophy points) it has certainly gotten very tight at the top of the league with only a point between most anglers in the top ten at this stage, with no clear leader anyone could win it. With River clean ups etc its been a very busy few weeks, now its all done we hope to enjoy some fishing in our nice clean river.
Tight Lines
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Thursday, 6 June 2013
River Clean Up 2013
Hi All
The Leixlip Anglers & The Leixlip Tidy Towns combined forces again yesterday evening to clean out the Rye & Liffey rivers. As was the case last time there was more rubbish in the rivers than anyone realised with 2 & a half bulging trailer loads being removed mostly metal from ranging from crowd barriers to men at work signs quite fitting as it happened as all the volunteers worked really hard during the evening to drag all that rubbish out of the river. A massive well done to all involved.
The Leixlip Anglers & The Leixlip Tidy Towns combined forces again yesterday evening to clean out the Rye & Liffey rivers. As was the case last time there was more rubbish in the rivers than anyone realised with 2 & a half bulging trailer loads being removed mostly metal from ranging from crowd barriers to men at work signs quite fitting as it happened as all the volunteers worked really hard during the evening to drag all that rubbish out of the river. A massive well done to all involved.
An impromptu game of River volley ball although I don't know if the choice of swim suits will attract much TV coverage
Gerry Woods Leixlip Anglers puts the finishing touches to the 2nd trailer load of rubbish
Leixlip Tidy Towns take the last load of rubbish to the dump
An evenings hard work over but I'm sure that bin can take more coke bottles
The Festival Competition 2013
Hi All
There was a good turn out for the Festival competition as usual with over 20 anglers fishing the river some had more success than others. We were greeted with a fine evening for fishing a little windy at first but that calmed down to leave a still warm evening, the hatch didn't arrive until late the same can be said for the Trout someone should have told them they were invited earlier, with most fish being caught late the winning fish didn't arrive until after 10pm Brendan OReilly caught it a fine 20inch trout. Everyone enjoyed the evening with a pint or two to round it out in the River Forest afterwards.
Well done Brendan a fine Trout by any measure.
There was a good turn out for the Festival competition as usual with over 20 anglers fishing the river some had more success than others. We were greeted with a fine evening for fishing a little windy at first but that calmed down to leave a still warm evening, the hatch didn't arrive until late the same can be said for the Trout someone should have told them they were invited earlier, with most fish being caught late the winning fish didn't arrive until after 10pm Brendan OReilly caught it a fine 20inch trout. Everyone enjoyed the evening with a pint or two to round it out in the River Forest afterwards.
Well done Brendan a fine Trout by any measure.
A Good turn out on the night an evenings fishing done now off to the River Forest for a pint
Aiden Crean presenting Brendan with the Trophy
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
The Festival Competition 2013
Hi All
Don't forget the Leixlip Festival Competition is on this Friday 31st May 2013 @7pm we will meet in the old pipe factory at the end of the mill lane (right at the fire station and down to the end of the lane red gate on the right) hope to see you all there, don't forget all welcome it is an open competition however under 18's must be accompanied by an adult.
Hope to see you all there.
We have added a new links page to some helpful web site like water levels & Liffey releases, both Liffey & Rye water levels can be checked on line using these links.
Tight lines
Don't forget the Leixlip Festival Competition is on this Friday 31st May 2013 @7pm we will meet in the old pipe factory at the end of the mill lane (right at the fire station and down to the end of the lane red gate on the right) hope to see you all there, don't forget all welcome it is an open competition however under 18's must be accompanied by an adult.
Hope to see you all there.
We have added a new links page to some helpful web site like water levels & Liffey releases, both Liffey & Rye water levels can be checked on line using these links.
Tight lines
Thursday, 23 May 2013
A Lough Ree Lump
Hi All
Hope you are all keeping well, the river is quite low at the minute almost down to summer levels even though the temperatures aren't up to summer levels yet.
The cold weather didn't stop Gerry Woods catching a fine Lump of a Trout on a recent trip to Lough Ree on a Mayfly Nymph nice one Gerry sure you will all agree a fine fish.
Hope you are all keeping well, the river is quite low at the minute almost down to summer levels even though the temperatures aren't up to summer levels yet.
The cold weather didn't stop Gerry Woods catching a fine Lump of a Trout on a recent trip to Lough Ree on a Mayfly Nymph nice one Gerry sure you will all agree a fine fish.
Gianluca also had another fine trout out of the Rye recently caught on a nymph below.
Also we are going to join forces with the Leixlip Tidy Towns again as we did a couple of years ago when we hauled a massive pile of rubbish out of the river.
We are planning to do another clean up of the lower Rye & Liffey this year after the Festival is over, the date we are aiming at is Wednesday 5th of June meet at the Scouts Den @ 7pm for a few hours cleaning, we will need as many anglers as we can muster to drag the rubbish out of the river to the tidy towns volunteers who are going to help us get it to a central point for disposal remember the more anglers we can put in the river the less work each will have to do.
Thankfully the river is not as bad as it was a couple of years ago so it shouldn't be as big a job as it was then. However the Liffey does need a bit more work than the Rye in particular at the back of the court yard & car park. So see you all there a text will be sent out to confirm the time & date & it will be confirmed here on the blog as well.
Tight Lines.
Monday, 13 May 2013
Jr Comp 2013
Hi All
All the Jr members turned out for the competition and were greeted with a showery blustery day but that didn't dampen the spirits any all were raring to get fishing.
Everyone saw some action on the day even if some fish were lost and there were a good few caught as well.
Philip Byrne won the competition with Niall Flood 2nd as no one else landed a fish we had an impromptu raffle for third prize.
The fishing standards have much improved this year with the Jr members.
It wont be long before their in mixing it with the seniors.
Well done to all who fished in the comp.
All the Jr members turned out for the competition and were greeted with a showery blustery day but that didn't dampen the spirits any all were raring to get fishing.
Everyone saw some action on the day even if some fish were lost and there were a good few caught as well.
Philip Byrne won the competition with Niall Flood 2nd as no one else landed a fish we had an impromptu raffle for third prize.
The fishing standards have much improved this year with the Jr members.
It wont be long before their in mixing it with the seniors.
Well done to all who fished in the comp.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
A Few Good Fish
Hi All
A couple of our new members have discovered some of the hidden gems in our river (well the big ones do tend to hide themselves well). Both Dermott Mitchell & Gianluca Paolella had a few good trips down to the river this year the weather looked bad but the fishing looked great well done lads below are a few photos taken by them on the day enjoy.
p.s on the trout league table it seems our blog was effected by the Gmail issues over the past few days making posting tables or very large items to the blog impossible for the minute we could only get a small version to post so you may have to get out the binoculars to view it, we will of course rectify this when blogger returns to normal operation.
Tight Lines
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A couple of our new members have discovered some of the hidden gems in our river (well the big ones do tend to hide themselves well). Both Dermott Mitchell & Gianluca Paolella had a few good trips down to the river this year the weather looked bad but the fishing looked great well done lads below are a few photos taken by them on the day enjoy.
p.s on the trout league table it seems our blog was effected by the Gmail issues over the past few days making posting tables or very large items to the blog impossible for the minute we could only get a small version to post so you may have to get out the binoculars to view it, we will of course rectify this when blogger returns to normal operation.
Tight Lines
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Dermott with some fine trout above & below
Gianluca with a fin perfect trout
Nothing like a good bend in a rod
A good days fishing by anyones standards well done lads
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