Youths

The 11th Fips-Mouche Youth World Fly Fishing Championships, France 2012

The 11^th Fips-Mouche Youth World Fly Fishing Championships are taking place in the Lozére Region in France from the 8th to the 15th  July 2012 with the competition itself being held from Wednesday the 11^th July to Friday the 13^th July.

There are four river sessions and on lake session (from a boat).  The designated for the championship are the Lot (Upper), Lot (Lower), Colagne and Allier while the lake session is on Charpal Lake.  The river beats will be an average of 350 metres in length and following on from the World Youths in Italy this year one of the river sessions (the session on the Upper Lot) is dry fly only with only one dry (floating) fly being allowed.

The eligible species on the river sessions are brown trout and grayling while on the lake session the eligible species are roach, perch and pike.

The Rule modifications for the championships can be viewed here:  RM FRANCE 2012

The best of luck to all the Youths that will make the Irish Team which will be announced in due course.

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2011 Youth Inter-Provincial Lake & River Championships

A big thanks to the Connaught Angling Council for hosting both the Youth Inter-Provincial Lake and River Championships on Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th September 2011.   Both competitions proved to be very successful and were fished on a catch and release basis.

The Youths Inter-Provincial Lake Championship took place on the Saturday on the Gowla and Athry Fisheries in Connemara.  Congratulations to Kenneth Cormican (Connaught) who is the 2011 Youth Inter-Provincial Lake Champion.  Kenneth had a great day on the lakes catching 12 trout in total and also the largest trout of the day (50cm’s).  Sean Dempsey (Leinster) was second just ahead of Finbarr Carroll (Munster) who was third.  Munster won the Inter-Provincial Lake Championship ahead of Connaught, Leinster and Ulster.

Inter-Provincial Lake Results 2011

The Youths Inter-Provincial River Championship took place the following day in very testing conditions on the Clare River in Tuam, Co. Galway.  The 2011 Youths Inter-Provincial River Champion is Ian Howard (Munster).  Fergal McKiernan (Leinster) was second just ahead of his fellow Leinster team-mate Michael Conroy who was third.  Leinster won the Inter-Provincial River Championship ahead of Munster and Connaught.  The largest trout was caught by Colin O’Reilly (Munster) 31cm’s.

Inter-Provincial River Results 2011

Congratulations to everyone that qualify for the Irish Youths Team that will take part in the 2012 World Youths Fly Fishing Championship in France.

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2011 Youth Inter-Provincial Lake Championship

Below are the details of the 2011 Youth Inter-Provincial Lake Champiosnhip being held on Saturday 17th September

The Youth Interprovincial lake competition will be held on the Gowla & Athry Fisheries.  These fisheries are part of the Zetland Country House Hotel http://www.zetland.com and are being made available by Mr. Colm Redmond.

The format will be as follows

• 3 sectors consisting of 2 Wild lakes and 1 rainbow (Loch na nÓiléain & Loch Uí Ghríofa)
• 3 sessions over the day (lakes are < 10 mins walk/car from each other)
• Rotation of pegs every 20 minutes (each angler moves 2 pegs)
• 12-14 anglers per sector with 6 stewards. Stewards do not rotate for afternoon sessions.

The length of the sessions are:

• Session 1                 11.20-13.00
• Lunch                        13.00-14.00
• Session 2                 14.10-15.50
• Session 3                 16.20- 18.00

Registration will be from 9.30am until 10.30am at the Hotel bar.  Dinner & presentations in the evening.  There will be 2 sittings for dinner, I ask that only those who are returning home sit first.  Dinner is available for guests or travelling companions at a rate of €20.00, must be paid on the morning.  The €45 entrance fee covers dinner for the angler and steward (18 stewards in total).

Lunch is the responsibility of the angler/steward.  Safety is paramount, each angler is requested to wear a lifejacket, hat and safety glasses failure to do so will disqualify them.

Rules of the competition will be posted on the day. The following is a synopsis of the main points:

1.       Each trout must be measured from head to the fork for the tail, 150mm is the lower limit, a trout over 150mm will be rounded up, i.e 155mm to 160mm

2.       If a steward from the anglers province is found to have measured, recorded, advised or interfered in any way with the angler, the angler will be disqualified and the province fined.

3.       The competition is on a catch and release basis only.

4.       Sea trout will count, salmon will not.

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9th FIPS-Mouche Youth World Fly Fishing Championship – Italy 2011

Individual Irish Youth Positions

39. Sean Dempsey

49. Thomas Foley

51. Michael Conroy

52. Andrew Naylor

55. Sean Cassidy

59. David Armstrong

The Youths finished in 11th position overall in the team placings.  Congratualtions to all.

Final Individual and Team Results:  Juniors_Final Results

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2011 Youth Inter-Provincial Lake and River Championships

The Youth Inter-Provincial Lake and River Championships which are being hosted by the Connaught Angling Council takes place on the weekend of Saturday 17th September and Sunday 18th September 2011.  Further details can be found from the link below.

2011 Youth Inter-Provincial Lake & River Championships

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2011 TAFI Youth Inter-Provincial Fly-Tying Championship

Congratulations to all the Youths that took part in the TAFI Youth Inter-Provincial Fly-Tying Championship that was held in the GAA Sports Complex in Mallow, Co. Cork on Saturday 26th February 2011.  Twenty six youths from all four provinces took part and the standard displayed on the day was superb.  A massive thanks to all the Provincial Youth Officers for getting the youths to compete and tie to such a high standard.  Also thanks to the Mallow Trout angling club that hosted the event and to Alice Conba the chief judge who had the tough job of marking the youths.

Top 10 Individuals

1st Paul Molloy (Connaught)

2nd Sean Demspey (Leinster)

3rd Alan Joyce (Connaught)

4th Cillian Dowling (Connaught)

5th James Barry (Munster)

Allister Early (Munster)

7th Ciarán  Reilly (Connaught)

8th Fergal McKiernan (Leinster)

9th Ryan Binley (Connaught)

10th Gary Hopkins (Connaught)

Winning Province

1st Connaught

2nd Leinster

3rd Munster

4th Ulster

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2011 World Youths Italy

The Youths World Fly Fishing Championship is being held in Italy this year and is taking place from Tuesday 30^th August to Thursday 1^st September.

There is 5 River sessions in total and the rules of the championship specifies that only one fly is allowed.  The size limit is 20cm’s and grayling, rainbow trout and brown trout are the eligible fish species.

The first 6 from the 2010 Youth Inter-Provincial River Championship will be eligible to fish for Ireland in the World Youth Championships in Italy.  Invites have been sent out to the first six anglers for places on the Irish Youth Team.

1. David Armstrong (Leinster)
2. Thomas Foley (Munster)
3. Andrew Naylor (Leinster)
4. Michael Conroy (Leinster)
5. Sean Cassidy (Leinster)
6. Sean Dempsey (Leinster)

Captain – Tom Lofts

Click below for the Rule Modifications for the 2011 World Youth Championship:

RM Youth 2011 Italy

Click for 2010 Youth Results below:

2010 TAFI Inter-Provincial Youth River Championship Results

2010 TAFI Inter-Provincial Youth Lake Championship Results

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Photos from the 2010 Youth Inter-Pro Lakes below