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

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.

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.