May
12

Mc Bride Cup and Courtney Cup Sunday 26th May 2013

Mark Tierney receiving the Mc Bride Cup from Bobby Rodgers, Chairman

Don’t forget this years competitions on the 26th May 2013.

The Mc Bride Cup is fished for by adults and the Courtney Cup is for juveniles. Read the rest of this entry »

Apr
20

Fishing in 1945, a diary kept by Alo Mc Donald

Alo Mc Donalds fishing diary from 1945

This is a fishing diary kept by Mr Alo Mc Donald from the year 1945. he had 42 days fishing catching 118 trout which weighed 59lbs weight. Most of the fishing was carried out around the Stonebridge area of the Strule and all were caught on the fly.The notes at the bottom of the page refer to 3 salmon that he caught that season, and he got 10 shillings, 6 shillings 9d and 6 shillings 3d for them respectively. PC refers to P Cunningham one of the founders of Omagh Anglers Association. In 1948 which is the earliest club newsletter from the AGM(I have in my possession courtesy of Jackie Mc Gale) Alo Mc Donald paid 6 shillings for his years fishing..Many thanks to his daughter Bernie for supplying me with his records.

Apr
20

2013 Season,

C Robinson returning a nice Brown trout

This year we have introduced Associate membership to the Club, this is for people who would like to be a part of Omagh Anglers Association and are from outside the BT78/ BT79 post code area. Due to a very high demand all places have been filled for the coming year. Read the rest of this entry »

Mar
09

Drumragh River

Unfortunately over the close season a few members of Omagh Anglers decided to take some stretches of the Drumragh for themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Mar
03

Club Person of the Year

This year it was decided to honour three members of the club due to the amount of work that has been put in by them in the interests of the club. The three are Eddie Fisher, Hugo Mc Sorley and Walter Owens. Read the rest of this entry »

Mar
01

Secretarys Report for 2012

Secretary’s Report

The 2012 season was by all accounts quite a good year for many anglers with the high water levels having a positive impact on the number of salmon entering our rivers. The counters were again ineffective at producing reliable figures and only 2794 had been counted through Sion Mills by the end of August 2012.

The annual competitions were poorly supported, probably due to low water conditions and clear blue skies however some fantastic trout were caught on the day. A lot of time and effort is put into organising these competitions and members are asked to publicise and support them. The trout fishing in our system is excellent with many reasonable size trout being caught throughout the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Feb
07

Omagh Anglers Association 70th AGM

Members keep free the last thursday in February 2013 ,the 28th this year, for the clubs AGM. It will be held as usual in Omagh Lbrary Headquarters at 19:30pm sharp!
Please support this , it is your Club and maybe you can have an important input into the running of the club and also help put forward plans for the future.
Hope to see you there.
Honorary Secretary
Terry Smithson

Nov
18

Omagh Hydro update!

I have just received an update from NIEA re the Council owned hydro in Omagh. The Stop notice issued by the NIEA has been lifted and the Council can begin testing again. Read the rest of this entry »

Nov
18

The end to another season

Another season has come to an end and many anglers have had varying degrees of success on the local rivers with both trout and salmon.
Don’t forget to make your returns to the Loughs Agency and include all the salmon that were released as well as those that were kept. Read the rest of this entry »

Sep
25

ANGLING REPORTS AND CLOSURE OF FISHING ON THE 10TH OCTOBER

Apologies for no reports but due to my own workload and continuation of the fight against the hydro I have had little or no time to update the website.

Firstly I know that trout fishing in the area is still very good. I have had a few good days on the river with some success with numbers of trout all over the 1lb mark I have also received several reports from visitors of excellent days trout fishing and even one lady from Co Down catching a salmon on the dry fly back in August on the Drumragh. Read the rest of this entry »

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