Seventeen match anglers from around the country fished the Ballymote & District Angling Club event on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August.
Templehouse Lake, famous for its quality bream and one of the few places in Ireland where anglers can catch over one hundred pounds of bream, was the venue for this year’s IFI Open. The competition, which is in its third year, was organised by Ballymote & District Angling Club in conjunction with the Irish Angling Development Alliance
Weather conditions at the weekend did not make life easy for the anglers. Particularly, conditions on Saturday weren’t favourable but all anglers stuck it out in the hope of catching that winning bag of bream.
However, a phenomenal 170 lbs. of bream won the competition for Galway angler, Ronan Ryan, who created another match record. Local angler, Keith Coleman, finished as runner-up and Michael Fitzpatrick from Boyle came third.
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