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https://www.fisheriesireland.ie/fish-sp ... loach.html

I'm delighted to announce yours truly is the first person on this fair island to hand catch a stoneloach from a kayak!
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Kids fishing net?
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TimOH wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:56 pm Kids fishing net?
My dear Timothy, hand caught.
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Fish of the year right there.
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Graham Smith wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:11 pm Fish of the year right there.
we cant be that desperate :(
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pat gill wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:09 pm
Graham Smith wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:11 pm Fish of the year right there.
we cant be that desperate :(
I'd say there was about 70 of them in Dennis's ferrox lol.
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Dave ODonovan wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:53 pm https://www.fisheriesireland.ie/fish-sp ... loach.html

I'm delighted to announce yours truly is the first person on this fair island to hand catch a stoneloach from a kayak!

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I'd that's the biggest thing you've ever had in your hand
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use to catch them as a kid in a stream in castleblaney. :)
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Lough sheelin is full of them.
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No species card....doesn't count :-)
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Denis O Donovan wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 11:45 am No species card....doesn't count :-)
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