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Mon 08 Aug 2010World Cup champion
ANGLING NOTES:IRELAND has a new World Cup champion. Michael Keady from Moycullen, Co Galway, took the crown with five fish at the World Cup Trout Fly Angling Championships at Lough Mask, Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, over the bank holiday weekend. All roads led to Cushlough Bay for the five-day championships to compete for the ultimate prize in brown trout fly fishing.
From a humble beginning in 1953 with just 164 home-based anglers, the festival now attracts a strong flavouring of tourist anglers and is widely regarded as the premier competition in the northern hemisphere. This year, 460 anglers competed.
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