Sea Angling in Ireland - Policy on Copyright and Intellectual Property

Rather than list information on the forums, we have decided to list updates to the site and other information on this page, in chronological order with the most recent updates first. If you have any information or other bits and pieces you would like to see here, submit it to kieran and make sure to specify a date if it is a notification for a competition or something similar that has a deadline! There is also a section of the online forums now dedicated to sea angling club news / notifications and details of any upcoming angling competitions.

Date	Topic	Comment
2nd September	back and alive oh!	Hi Thankfully no bad news to report bar the impact of the red tide on the fishing but autumn is upon us and the cod have been getting fat... so I'm told! ;-)
12th April	Hackers disable boards Clare Island boat	Sadly hackers have disabled the bulletin boards and at time of writing we fear the worst, namely that four years postings will be lost. We woudl encourage everyone that has participated to re-register in order to prove to the mindless vandal that their work was as pointless as it was idiotic. On a positive side the chatroom that K2 had called for is now getting more use and over 50 people are now signed up. Aaron O'Grady has moved Rosterick II to Clare Island in Clew Bay and is now in a position to take on parties from the newly extended Roonagh Pier.
4th April	Clare South update New Kerry Competition	Thanks to Bill Ryan, we have a few corrections on the south Clare marks, and a minor correction thanks to Mike Hegarty to the Bantry Marks. We also have a new competition sponsored by Julia Bird and Mike Hegarty, for details, and you will want to win this, check out the bulletin boards.
31st March	Pollack pictures, update on northern Belmullet marks	We have added a few photos from a recent pioneering trip to northern Belmullet on page 19.and thanks to Sean Lavelle's expert advice, I have updated most of the marks on the whole peninsula, including several new marks discovered on the trip.
21st March	Thornback Ray	Bill Ryan's superb 5 kilo Thornback Ray from Poulnasherry is now up on page 19.
15th March	Chatroom & picture	The Chatroom is up and running, all we need is someone to organise it. We also have a nice shore caught Bull Huss on the gallery on page 19. On the Sea Angling Ireland SAC, IFSA affiliation has been applied for - more anon.
1st March	Chatroom New Front Page	We are making some progress on the chatroom, but it has been complicated by the need to adapt the existing MYSQL dsatabase being used for the bulletin board. We've also put a nice picture of Barley Cove, about as far west and south as you can travel in Ireland, on the front page of the website, thanks to Mairi and Geoff Woods. Doh.. and a warm welcome to the club's newest member, Ed Burke!
31st January	Codling picture	A nice start to 2005, Donal Domeney took a 5 lb 2 oz Codling from "de Wall" in Monkstown in Cork and its is pictured on page 18 of the gallery.
15th January	Gilthead Bream and Sea Angling Ireland SAC news	Yep, finally a picture of an Irish shore caught gilthead bream from west Cork - check out the details on page 18 of the gallery. The SAC is coming along nicely with pledges of membership from 15 people. We will still need some people to help organise competitions so check out HOW TO JOIN. Annual members for seniors will be 50 Euro and everyone is welcome.
12th January	New Sea Angling Club	Yep, it has finally arrived! This website will play host to Ireland's first virtual sea angling club, hopefully affiliated with the IFSA. The club is open to allcomers, young or old, resident or visiting anglers and will now turn the meets we have had around the country into fully fledged, supervised and properly run competitions. Let's just hope the fish are not too virtual too! For more information check the new forum on the bulletin boards (last one).
10th January	Happy New Year Londonderry marks	Hi, Happy New Year to you all. We have finally brought Co. Londonderry in from the cold with two marks on the shore listing, with thanks to Dingbat. More information would be very welcome. For the purposes of download times, the news section will only hold updates from the last year, so anything prior to January 2004 has just disappeared off this page.
27th December	New Marks on the Shannon (southside)	Hi, many thanks to Eoin for his help with two new marks on the Shannon, offering standard deep water fishing but one with tope added...
20th December	updates on skippers and charters	Hi, we have Luke Aston operating a new charter boat for 2005 out of Carrigaholt in Clare and Michael Mcgettigan out of Killybegs in Donegal. Finally at George's suggestion we've given the website's front door a makeover and we're looking for nice photos to publish as the background with full credit given and all copyright acknowledged. Just email them to me with a few details of where when and if you caught anything there!
13th December	new Skate and two new charter boats	A 206 lbs Skate from Sean McKay in Ballycastle takes pride of place on page 17 in the gallery, next to another 200 lb monster from the same boat last month! We have tthe pictures now on new charters, Pat Conneely in Roundstone in Galway and John Angles in Castletownberehaven in west Cork...
2nd December	Revised gallery	Hi, the gallery is now indexed by species to make it easier to navigate around and we've added a massive Skate, a nice Tope, a very large Huss and some other critters to the list. Very few fish being entered for the shore competitions though...
23rd November	review of Cork marks, more gallery pictures	I've updated all of the Cork marks with more information and am awaiting confirmation of two Gilthead bream taken off the shore in west cork. There are some excellent new fish on the gallery, page 16 incl. a big shore caught Tope.
18th November	rare Topknot and a new mark in Sligo	Ronald Surgenor has caught another mini-species to add to his lesser forkbeard (tadpole fish), this time it is a topknot, a species that you can catch all around the coast. The photo will appear in the gallery shortly. We also have a new mark, Strandhill, just outside Sligo, which remarkably produced a small Hake in the surf.
12th November	rare Cuckoo Ray captured from the shore	Another rarity from the shore, this time on page 16 in the photo galleries, we have Peter McGroary displaying a cuckoo ray taken in Downings on November 3rd. nice one.
9th November	rare capture in Bangor massive conger landed off Courtmacsherry	Ronald is back with a Lesser Forkbeard or Tadpole Fish, a very rare capture taken from the pier at Bangor waiting for the conger to bite... see gallery page 15. The details of the new competitions will be announced shortly - sorry for the delays... We've also updated some of the charter boats who have been kind enough to keep us abreast of what is happening... Sincere thanks to Matthew Carter for reformatting the pdf on the baits - there is no new information in there (c'mon guys, give us your tips) but it looks far better. Finally James Guerin makes a return with a monster 28 kilo Conger Eel taken on a trip with Mark Gannon out of Courtmacsherry... check out the gallery on page 15. I suspect this might take some beating for the boat prize this month!!!
3rd November	new species listing	Hi, I have added the black mouthed dogfish to the species guide given one was encountered on a charter off Northern Ireland recently, and we have updated the index page to make it more accessible and download faster. More anon...
21st October	Other pictures	We ave now moved onto page 15 and tops marks to Lee Rock with a superb 2 kilo Ballen Wrasse from no "5" on the flat rocks in Dunmore... I've fished it many times and never go close to a fish of this quality. But I have found a new mark close by. We also have an excellent Flounder from Portstewart, a Lobster from Bangor and our first John Dory, taken by Har Wynne from his own boat off Kilmore Quay...
21st October	Ballyreen, Co. Clare	Ìf Peter Atkins recent catches on page 14 are anything to go by, this mark is fishing its socks off, and it has also produced an 8 lb thornback recently...
21st October	new competition, search facility within the site and photos...	Hi, we will have a new competition opening in November sponsored by the Irish Bait Company Ltd., with sample packs of different frozen baits being sent by post to the winners (island of Ireland), more details to follow on the bulletins boards. We've also made some changes to the site, with a Google powered search facility now located on the index page - you can search the site's several hundred pages using keywords, and it is worth searching within the bulletins boards as well.
11th October	new Antrim marks	Hi, a big thanks to Ronald for allowing us add four good codling marks on the shore from Cushendun to Cushendall in Antrim...
29th September	new gallery pages	Well, it has been a good month for the fishing, with big Bass, Wrasse and the first decent Codling all making into the gallery, page 13. We have also put up a picture of another Thwaite Shad and an even rarer Blue Whiting...
24th September	12 marks added Comprehensive Review of Main Guide Areas	Hi, thanks to Eric Hore, we have added twelve new marks to West Cork and specifically the Beara penninsula. You may also have noticed that the shore guide and species guide are getting a new cleaner look. I am updating material as I go along but it is a mammoth exercise and will probably take until Christmas to complete... if you have any information you would like to add or entries you would like to see changed...
17th September	New Photos New Dublin Charter	Hi, its been a busy week for the gallery. We've had some fine new Rays, Painted and Thornbacks added, together with a specimen Shore Pollack and a specimen Shore Ballen Wrasse, all on pages 11 and 12... We've also found an active and winter boat charter operating out of Dublin!
13th September	New Marks	Hi, over the weekend I will add a load of new individual guides to specific marks across several counties including Mayo, Kerry, Waterford, possibly more... the eventual aim is to have a website where every mark has its own individual page.
9th September	Trigger happy	Congratulations to Bill Ryan for the speciment Triggerfish taken in Clare and now displayed on page 11. And there's also a picture of a specimen Ballan Wrasse that Bill took from a similar mark earlier this summer...
6th September	nice May Pollack	We finally have a nice Pollack pictured, taken way back in May, on an undisclosed wreck on the Kish Bank by Damien Warren. Gallery page 11.
2nd September	Bertra Strand Mark	Hi, thanks to a superb photograph from Tim Hoy I have added a detailed explanation of the marks and non-marks (!) on Bertra Strand, Co. Mayo.
1st September	Specimen Conger Eel	It being that time of year, I was expecting some to show up but not this early and not this big! Congratulations to Eoin Beatty for his specimen on page 11.
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