Eric Cahill is 16 years old and has been a member of Mulhuddart Foroige Fishing Club in Dublin 15 since he was 10. During that time he has always shown a unique ability to listen and learn angling skills from his Dublin Angling Initiative tutors. He has attended numerous fishing courses in game, coarse and sea fishing run by the Dublin Angling Initiative. Eric recently caught a 12lb specimen trout from Lough Ramor, Virginia, Co. Cavan. This is the biggest fish ever caught by a youngster out fishing with the DAI. The fish was landed amidst great excitement from the youngsters, the youth workers and a crowd of local anglers who all looked on in amazement! The fish was weighed on certified scales, laid out and measured on an Inland Fisheries Ireland measuring mat. It reached a length of over 80cm and weighed in at over 12lbs. It was announced that Eric had just caught his first specimen that had been recorded from over 10,000 teenagers who have participated in Dublin Angling Initiative courses over the last 15 years. If this fish is ratified by the Specimen Fish Committee it will also be the first specimen recorded from Lough Ramor.
