Declan Gibbons reports that last week saw slower fishing activity on Lough Corrib but with more settled weather and a rise in temperatures the duckfly shouldn’t be too far away, indeed some fly are making an appearance already. Those anglers who were out encountered fish and had some nice sport.

In the Roscahill area Gearoid Little had eleven trout for two day’s trolling, and most of the eleven were released. In the Oughterard area local man Peter Kelly went out on Corrib for a few hours in his traditional punt trolling the brickeen and had great success, landing a cracking fish of 7lbs.

Also in the Oughterard area Kevin Molloy of Baurisheen Bay Boat Hire (+353 (0)87 – 9604 170) was fishing on Monday last trolling and had three trout for his day, while on Wednesday he had two fish on wet fly. Michael Donnellan, Oughterard had twelve trout for two day’s trolling and sportingly returned nine. John Gibbons, Oughterard had five fish for two day’s trolling.
In the Cornamona area Kevin Cronin of Dublin and Roundstone was fishing on Wednesday afternoon last with local angler Peter Walsh and had a cracking trout of 4lbs on a Silver Dabbler. Staying in the Cornamona area Richard Molloy of Ballard Boat Hire and Self Catering (+353 (0)87 – 2879 339) reported on a Swiss group enjoying excellent fishing – trolling – for their week’s stay and landing 25 trout, all sportingly released with the best fish estimated at 4.25lbs.
Ballindiff Angling Club chairman Andrew Boyd and friend Dave McCormack had three fish to the boat on Sunday last, with Andrew landing a trout of 5.5lbs on the fly. All these fish were sportingly released.

By Kevin Crowley
Source: www.fishinginireland.info.