With excellent weather conditions coarse fishing was at it best this week. Garry landed his best pike in month’s and Mick had bream weighing up to 6lbs each. From now on until March French anglers will enjoy pike fishing and it looks like as if they are in for a great winter’s fishing.

Excellent Fishing

Bream up to 6lbs

2009 Fortview House Fishing Match was fished over 3 days and won by Chesterfield Angler Kevin Hardy with 87lbs of fish.  10 English Anglers took part and it is organised and run By Fortview House & Mick Rimmer from Chesterfield.  2010 Match will be fished in September and we are now taking bookings for it. A great weeks entertainment and fishing was had by all. This is it’s 10yr and we are already looking forward to 2010 match. Get your name down in time and don’t be dissapointed.

Monday night for the next 12 weeks we will be all glued to the TV3 at 9p.m and keeping your fingers crossed for Ruth O’ Dowd “our Cavan Girl” who is a candidate vying to be Bill Cullen’s Apprentice.  With Killashandra & Mullahoran blood running through her vains she will have enough grit and determination to sit on Bill’s board. We all wish her well and hope she is Cavan’s first Apprentice. An t-adh leat Ruth.

If you were so lucky to attend Ryan’s 1st show and win a weekend In Quinn’s Slieve Russell Hotel in Cavan, why not make it a week away at Christmas and book Fortview for the rest of your stay. I won’t promise you Slieve Russell standards but I will promise home from home . www.fortview.com has all the information. Didn’t he do well on his first show.

Mr. Terry Ashton from Nottingham won the Angling Trust 2nd Devision National Fishing Competition on Saturday Last. Terry is a regular guest of ours for the past 15 years.  He is back with us at the moment fishing the Virginia Festival. This is his 50th time to visit Ireland on fishing holiday and we are so delighted he has won the National. He won the All Ireland fishing competition some years ago. The National was fished on the River Trent. 310 Anglers fished the one day event. Congratulations Terry.

How delighted we are in Cavan to hear that our town has been chosen for 2010 Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. We are already looking forward to a great week of music, song & dance from 15th to 22nd August 2010. Accommodation will book up fast and we hope everyone will book in time.  www.fortview.com has availabity for bookings for 4 nights or more during the Fleadh. I am told the last time it was in Cavan was 1954,  I personally don’t remember it but I sure will remember 2010 God willing.

Tenders are at the final stage for the renovating of the Castle under the Peace3 funding. Within 8 weeks it should get underway. This will be great for our area and we are looking forward to an increase in bed nights in all local accommodation.  Castle Sanderson will be wounderfull for Boy Scouts Ireland and all Boy Scouts, we look forward to welcoming them to Cavan & Redhills.

Belturbet is lcoated in County Cavan and is built of the banks of the river Erne and is ideally located between the major lake system of lough Oughter and Lough Gowna in the south and Upper Lough Erne in the north. This explains its attraction as an idealbase for exploring these great waters where Bream, Roach, Hybrids, Pike and Perch are abundent. When Angling along the Erne take particular note of the Creamery Stretch which produces good catches of Roche.The Putiaghan Lake whic is located 1.5 miles from Belturbet has a big head of Roach and Perch as well as good Tench. Killylea Lake further to the north is connected to the river Erne and has a fine stock of Roach. Fortview House B&B Cavan is ideal for your accommodation and fishing never was as good.

Ordinary festivals try to give you the entertainment you want…………but the Flat Lake gives you something you didn’t know you wanted.  It starts on August 14th and ends on the 16th.   Guest at the Festival this year includes:  The Dublin City Jazz Orchestra,  Shane McGowan, Gavin Friday, Mik Artistik, Declan Burke, Declan Hughes,  to name but a few.  Fortview House is now taking bookings for your accommodation during the festival, book early and avoid disappointment.  www.fortview.com

B&B Cavan is having one of its best years of course angling to report. 2 English fishermen hit the jackpot last week with 37 & 42 Bream weighing 5 to 6 lbs each and 1 French fisherman landed his largest pike 23lb.  Hopefully this will continue and French/English Anglers will be back hook-line & sink to sample our 365 lakes and rivers of Cavan. Cavan is known as the Lakeland District of Ireland with B&B’s who are specialists in catering for Anglers. Fortview House has photo’s to prove all catches and will be available soon on www.facebook.com/fortview.