May 14th , last bass before the closed season. Roll on the 16th of June.
Maybe some salmon fishing !

Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan decided to do a shore run as he heard that bass were now in Cork Harbour.

He went to one of his favourite shore spots and managed this fine bass of approx 6lbs which was returned.

Richie considered it early for this mark to produce such a fine fish . He mused that it might have been the early warm Spring weather in March which helped .

Luke Mc Cabes Cod

Here is family friend Luke Mc Cabe with a fine Kelpy Cod caught on a soft plastic with Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan.Luke outfished all on board including Andy Davies ! The Harbour dolphins put on a spectacular display for us
with one jumping 20 feet into the air beside the boat.A great day.

Jim O Donnell

Delighted to see Jim O Donnell use a photo of a bass caught on my boat during the summer as his profile picture on Facebook recently.He also gave me a good mention on this months Total Sea Fishing cw picture.Thanks Jim !Picture taken by Danny Parkins ,thanks for photo Danny.

Cian's Cod

Just out fishing with my son after a long spell of very windy weather. The boat is in the water all year around so we shot out for a cod session on soft plastics.Cian got a whopper of a cod on Harbour Rock , Cork Harbour.It weighed in at10.5 Lbs, his best ever.I have never seen a cod as big from this mark.We were using soft plastics , Wave Worms.Pink seemed to be the best colour.A good session with coalfish and pollack caught also.

Brian Ryan RIP

Last weekend my brother Brian passed away after spending 5 years in a coma.

Of all the Ryans Brian was the most outstanding fisherman.He was my fishing mentor

and taught me a huge amount of techniques and littlle tips that have served me well

as an angler.It is my one great regret that I never got to bring him out fishing with me

after I started my business.He would have been chuffed.

   The long goodbye is over.May he rest in peace.

Billy Bass

Richie Ryan's  good friend Tim Murrell brought out his brother-in -law Billy Mc Gibbon from Britain for a bass session recently.Billy had
never caught a bass and Tim promised him he would have success with the Eire Bass Guide. The photo shows Billy
with one of 9 bass caught on a very hectic session with Richie. 12 bass were hooked up in total with 9 landed.
When Billy returned from his bass session, his wife asked him what the fishing was like.Billy replied that he had
just had the best day of his life - Oops ! Needless to say she was not impressed