Lough Erne World Pike Fishing Classic

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here is some info on a pike competition coming up in october.

 

Erne World Pike Fishing Classic taking place over the weekend of October16th - 18th October. Please see contact details:

 

Contact: Jack Tisdall Tel: +44 (0)28 6632 2008

 

Email: mark@polefloats.com

 

Web: www.cloughballymillanglingcentre.com

 

 

 

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a link to the results of the above competition:

 

http://www.impartialreporter.com/sport/rou...p-of-the-world/

 

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**** The Erne World Pike Fishing Classic for 2010 will be on the 15/16/17 Oct 2010. ****

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

WATERWAYS IRELAND

ERNE WORLD OPEN PIKE FISHING CLASSIC 2009

RESULTS

 

 

The 2009 Waterways Ireland Erne World Open Pike Fishing Classic took place over the weekend 16 – 18 October. The three day event consisted of one day Bank fishing competition, a Boat Fly fishing competition (both on Friday) and a separate two day Boat fishing Competition.

 

A record number of 389 entries from 17 different counties in Ireland were received, with anglers from England, France, Belgium and even one competitor flying over from the USA to take part. This is the fourth year of the event, which has been supported throughout by Waterway’s Ireland as its main sponsor.

 

Competitors caught a total of 224 Pike during the event with individual fish of over 20lbs winning all three events. All fish were weighed and released unharmed.

 

The weekend started with the Bank and Fly Boat Events on Friday in excellent weather conditions on the River Erne around the town of Enniskillen. Stephen Martin and David Porter from Omagh in Co Tyrone dominated the Fly event, which was fished below Portora Lock to Devenish Island on the Lower Lough. Stephen took the £300 first prize with an outstanding fish of 20lbs 04ozs, while his boat partner took second place with a fine fish of 14lbs 1oz.

The Bank event, with 87 anglers took place on the river sections of Upper Lough Erne mainly in the town of Enniskillen. Local lad Dwayne Taylor from Ballinamallard Co Fermanagh, who had only recently taken up the sport took top prize in the event of £800 with a fish of 20lbs 10ozs from the Round O Jetty section which he caught on dead bait Roach. Stephen Wilkinson (£400) from Co Antrim was runner up with a fish of 19lbs from the Cleenish Island section, while Tony Callan (£300) from Co Louth was third with a fish of 18lbs 12ozs. Another local angler Nick Seddon from Derrygonnelly Co Fermanagh won the cumulative prize of £600 with a 4 fish catch totalling 45lbs 2ozs from the Derrychara section, his catch included a pike of 17lbs 01oz which also won him a £200 prize for fourth overall. Jason Martin from Co Fermanagh completed the top five winning £100 for his 14lbs 2oz fish.

 

Day one of the Boat event produced two 19lbs fish with Local Lad Glen Hall from Maguiresbridge Co Fermanagh taking top spot and £600 with a fish of 19lbs 13ozs caught on dead bait Smelt, closely followed by Tony Callan from Co Louth, who won £400 for his 19lbs 5ozs fish.

Day two saw another three big fish landed with George Hunter Irvinestown Co Fermanagh taking a fish of 19lbs 6ozs (£400) and regular visitor to the event Chris Lonsdale Norfolk landing a fish of 17lbs 12ozs (£300).

But the best was still to come, as the event drew to a close local angler Donal Maguire from Enniskillen was fishing near Enniskillen Castle in the last hour of the event, when he hooked into the fish that would win him the coveted World Pike fishing title. Donal fittingly caught the biggest Pike of the weekend of 20lbs 11ozs to pick up the winning cheque for £3,600.

 

In the overall standings Glen Hall’s fish from Saturday earned him an additional £1,000 for second overall and George Hunter gained an additional £750 for his Sunday fish in third.

 

Chris Lonsdale and Carl Reilly from Norfolk won the cumulative Boat prize (£600) with a catch of 4 fish for 42lbs 13ozs, with two Fermanagh boats of John Brazil and Barry Cornyn second (£400) with 8 fish for 41lbs 7ozs and Glen Hall and Jonny Fallis third (£200) with 4 fish for 40lbs 6ozs.

 

This year for the first time the organisers had introduced a 4 man Inter County/ International team event with £1,000 going to the winning team. As this was the first year that County Fermanagh anglers had featured so prominently in the main prize list it was highly appropriate that the local team from Enniskillen consisting of John Brazil, Dwayne Taylor, George Hunter and Barry Cornyn would take the prize with a 10 fish total of 66lbs 10ozs.

 

The weekend concluded with a prize giving in the Killyhevlin hotel where Erne Anglers club Secretary Jack Tisdall thanked all the main sponsors Waterway’s Ireland for their support. He also thanked Fermanagh District Council and DCAL (Fishery owners for their continued help in the organisation of the event including the stewarding.

 

Jack commented “the Waterway’s Ireland Erne World Pike Classic is without doubt the premier Pike Angling event in the world, with a total of £14,600 in cash prize money as well as Crystal and tackle prizes.â€

 

Martin Dennany, Director of Marketing and Communications at Waterways Ireland was on hand to give out the prizes and commented… “Waterways Ireland is very proud to be associated with this prestigious competition and congratulations to all the Anglers who participated in both the on-shore and the boat fishing events. Waterways Ireland is particularly pleased that this year’s event has grown so much in popularity, bringing competitors from both sides of the border as well as from much further afield. We are delighted that so many, old friends and new, have experienced the outstanding fishing that the Erne has to offer.

While the largest fish caught this weekend have been impressive enough at 20lbs, we look forward to welcoming many anglers back next year to catch the even bigger pike we know are out thereâ€.

 

Councillor Bertie Kerr Chairman of Fermanagh District Council said “the Council prides itself in developing events in the county and it is pleasing that our natural resources are being used in a sympathetic way to further develop our tourist product. This is the fourth time this event has been held in Fermanagh and I understand there is record entry with anglers from mainland UK and Europe participating. I believe the competition is one of the most prestigious pike angling events in the world and we hope that the standards set by the Erne event will be a benchmark for othersâ€.

 

Keith Collen, Recreation Officer for Fermanagh District Council went on to say “the response to the Erne competition has been outstanding , the anglers really enjoyed the 2009 event, although there are always a few things which we would reassess for future events we believe that the competition has a good foundation for development.â€

 

The event was enjoyed by all competitors and all fish we successfully returned alive and unharmed to the Erne. The organisers ensured that fish welfare was paramount during the competition and best practice was employed when handling the fish under the supervision of stewards, including DCAL staff.

 

The event was sponsored by Waterways Ireland and organised by the Erne Anglers Angling Club, Fermanagh District Council and the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure, Inland Fisheries Division.

 

Photo’s

 

36 Donal Maguire – Enniskillen – Winner of £3600 in the boat event

56 Tony Callan – Co Louth with his 18lb12oz fish - 3rd in the Bank event

60 Stephen Martin - Omagh Co Tyrone with his 20lb 04oz fish to win the Boat Fly event

67 Glen Hall – Maguiresbridge Co Fermanagh runner up in the boat event won £1600 with this 19lb 13oz fish.