Ireland Angling - Dublin Angling Show 2011

The Ireland Angling Show was held last Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th February , at the National Show Centre in Swords.

Angling is the fastest growing sport in the World and Ireland is legendary for its waterways and fishing grounds and attracts tourists from all over the World including some very famous celebrities and sportstars.

The Ireland Angling 2011 show didn't disappoint the thousands of attendees who turned out on Saturday and Sunday.

Visitors to the show were treated to an exciting, action-packed couple of days.Angling celebrities and experts from the various disciplines were available to demonstrate their fishing techniques to suit expert and novice anglers alike. Free advice on how to select the right rods, reels, hooks and lures to suit  particular fishing.

The Ireland Angling show also included lots of exciting new features, such as the, Central Casting Pool & Outdoor Casting, Theatre, Fly-tying Gallery, Fishing Simulators, Lure Pool, Workshops and the huge crowd puller Family Zone. run by Des Chew of the Dublin Angling Initiative. Des and his team takes thousands of young people from schools, summer projects and youth services throughout Dublin City Centre and its suburbs on sea, coarse and game angling courses throughout the year. He was supported and helped by the top names in Irish Angling, who kindly gave their free time to help out.

The Fly Tying Gallery hosted a  great selection of experts from around the world including Stack Scoville USA, Mikko Stenberg Finland, Riny Sluiter Netherlands, Paul Little UK  ,legendary Ted Malone and many more.

Over the weekend, new experts joined the team, such as Hywel Morgan, Stevie Munn, Cathal Hughes, Brian Cooke and many more gave an array of lively presentations.The casting pool gave spectators a perfect vantage point to see how Glenda Powell, Charles Jardine, Paddy Mc Donnell demonstrated their skills