Pike fishing on Lough Oughter

  Christoph Feustel and his son Arun 12 years old from Germany had a weeks pike fishing at Eonish Lodge. Arun caught some good sized pike,his biggest was 94cm on the stretch of Lough Oughter in front of Eonish Lodge. Christoph has been to Killeshandra Cavan before but this was Arun’s first time and he has returned home with some great memories of his fishing holiday

Pike fishing

 

Jean Aibegany from France had a good weeks pike fishing on Eonish Lake. Jean fished from the bank and caught pike every day. Jean stayed in Eonish Lodge bed and breakfast with his wife and two friends. Pike returned to the water alive and unharmed.

Bream fishing

Michael Granger and friends from Birmingham England have just returned home from a ten day fishing trip to Eonish Lodge bed & breakfast accommodation. Bream and skimmer bream were in good supply and on most days catches were good.
Pictures shows Frank, Norman, Bernard and Mike before returning home .

 

 Norman’s  bream caught on the private stretch in front of accommodation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And as picture shows Mike had more to catch than fish as he makes friends with Sally and Jessy our donkeys

James and his fish

James from Accrington Lancashire enjoyes his fishing holiday and boating on Eonish lake.

Another Good Weeks Fishing at Eonish Lodge.

Craig Mc Donald and friends from Accrington Lancashire England had a good weeks fishing holiday at Eonish Lodge Killeshandra.   Most of the fish caught were Bream and Skimmer Bream with some Roach and Hybrids. They were all caught on the feeder on the private stretch in front of accommodation.

Bed & Breakfast Winter Cash Deal

We’d just like to tell all our family and friends of an excellent B&B Winter Cash Deal that is on offer over the coming Winter season. Two people can stay in any of the listed premises for 2 nights for only 100 Euros and 50 Euros each night after that. It works out at only 25 Euros per person per night. There are no other taxes, parking fees, surcharges, minibar charges or any other hidden extras. Breakfasts are definitely included and are not cooked at 6am each morning to be collected at the self service counter. There will be no need for a SatNav to find either your room or your car. And as it’s an Irish family home, fluent English will be spoken. You may even get a cúpla focail of Irish. The cup of tea or coffee on arrival is complimentary as is the local information provided by the Bean a Tí. You don’t need to travel the length of the country to take that mini break. There is a B&B within an hour’s drive where you can park up for a few days and enjoy the local surroundings without it costing an arm and a leg. To find the B&B in your preferred area, simply click the following link: www.bandbwatch.ie/offpeakscheme/ choose your B&B and ask for the Winter Cash Deal and the nights you are interested in. We think it is a very good offer and well worth checking out. It begins on the 1st October. If you have friends or family that would also be interested in availing of this deal, feel free to pass it on to them, because it won’t be found advertised anywhere else.

Gary’s Fish

Gary Taylor and his family had a two week stay in our self catering and experienced the rainy season during that time. The lake level rose by 5ft during the second week. Gary been the dedicated fisherman was on the bank from 6am and weather conditions never seemed to stop him. Gary’s efforts paid off and he had some great catches He had a mixture of bream and roach with the bulk of the catch been bream, (93 bream in total). His weights varied from 14lb to 62lb. His total weight was 347 lb.

Fishing news

Weather conditions have been appalling in recent days resulting in very high water levels.Eonish stretch has risen by 5ft. in last week.  Some anglers who have ventured out report fishing to be quite good.  Good bags of Bream, Roach and Perch are being caught on Eonish, Killykeen, also Trinity and Flynns Pass are fishing quite well. Gary Taylor stayed at Eonish Lodge self-catering and fished Eonish Stretch on most days and had some great fishing.

Killeshandra

Derek Whittaker of Spinners Tackle Shop in Killesdhandra had this report on the angling in some of the local lakes.

2/8/08: Aghabane Lake, Killeshandra. 100 lb Bream to 4lb.
3/4/08 & 4/08/08: Bawn Lake, Killeshandra. 60 lb bags of Bream to 5lb on both days.
10/8/08: Killykeen 123 lb of mixed bags mainly hybrids and roach.
10/8/08: Town Lake, Killeshandra 60 lb bags with odd Bream to 4 lb.
Derek Whittaker
Spinners Tackle Shop
Main Street, Killeshandra, Co. Cavan.
Tel: (049) 436 3877
Web: www.spinnersofkilleshandra.com

A Good Weeks Fishing

A group of anglers from Stoke-On -Trent stayed at Eonish Lodge Self Catering  Killeshandra Cavan from the 1^st August -8^th August and had a great weeks fishing. On Monday Mick had 26½ lb Roach, Bream and other fish from Eonish Lodge Stretch. Due to wind conditions they fished Killykeen forest stretch for 3 days with good catches of bream as follows:

Andy 38lb- 32 lb- 28lb     Mick 38lb- 32lb – 38lb 

Neil 48lb- 42½lb -38lb     Alan 57lb- 38lb- 28lb

The weather for the week was overcast and windy, ideal fishing conditions. We look forward to their return to enjoy another fishing holiday at Eonish Lodge.