Sheelin gets busy as season comes to a close

“The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery.”
― Daniel J. Rice

Setting up’ the start of the LSTPA stream rehabilitation competition at Kilnanard, October 1st.
Setting up’ the start of the LSTPA stream rehabilitation competition at Kilnanard, October 1st.

 

Over the past week, those subtle and not so subtle seasonal changes reminded anglers that we are being gradually sucked into autumn. Winds are taking on a perceptibly cold edge, Friday last required an extra jumper and there was a scattering of mornings that were draped in trailing mists, a familiar autumnal chill and a myriad of magical cobwebs taking their temporary residence on the shoreline bushes. It is getting to that stage in the season that it almost feels as if you shouldn’t be out on the lake, a feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A beautiful trout for Chris Meadows (September 26th).
A beautiful trout for Chris Meadows (September 26th).

 

Despite the rapidly approaching end of the 2017 fishing season here, Lough Sheelin over the past week has been a relatively busy place what with anglers who like to mop up those last few days of ‘chances’, a few competitions and the fact that Lough Sheelin’s closure date of October 12th gives it an extra leg over most other Irish trout lates who close their angling doors on the last day of September.

A lake olive moulting from dun to spinner.
A lake olive moulting from dun to spinner.

 

The heaviest fish for this week weighed in 8lbs 2ozs caught by Dublin angler Aleksander Mlynarski using a black & silver Humungus fishing out from Church Island
Total number of trout recorded: 97.

Stuart Topp, The Orkney Islands with his 54cm trout (www.loughsheelinguiding.com).
Stuart Topp, The Orkney Islands with his 54 cm trout (www.loughsheelinguiding.com).

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