Fly fishing for mountain brown trout in a Wyoming blizzard in a nice new video from Benjamin Kraushaar. Sometimes these are the rare moments when anglers can have a stretch of the river to themselves. Blizzard and Browns from Benjamin Kraushaar on Vimeo. To check out more from this video maker, please click here.
The National Park Service is conducting an Expanded Non-Native Aquatic Species Management Plan Environmental Assessment (EA) that includes elements having a potentially damaging impact on the Lees Ferry trout fishery and the business and guide services dependent on that fishery. The EA proposes electrofishing mechanical removal of brown trout in Lees Ferry/ Glen […]
It was a full house when Inland Fisheries Ireland, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast, on October 17th presented the findings of a three-year research study into the genetic make-up of Ireland’s brown trout and sea trout populations at a one-day conference at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. Entitled ‘Understanding Brown Trout – […]
‘Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting’ Joyce Meyer Lough Sheelin suffered from the remnants of storm Gert in the first two days of this fishing week, in the form of torrential downpours. It is a well-known fact that all weather, good or bad, […]
Declan Gibbons has all the news from Lough Corrib from the end of August… Frank Costello, www.ashfordoldschoolhouse.ie or +353 (0)87 – 2524 253, reports from the Cong area of an improvement in trout angling for the week gone by with good action and sport on dry fly in many areas on Ginger and Claret […]
‘We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience’ – Pablo Neruda There’s an old saying which goes: “If there is enough blue in the sky in the morning to make a pair of sailor’s trousers then it will be a sunny afternoon” – well, […]
‘One dream, one soul, one prize, one goal, one golden glance of what should be’ Roger Taylor For the multitude of those who have enquired recently as to why the Lough Sheelin weekly angling report has seemingly vanished, the answer is that, for the past month the internet connection at the Sheelin office has […]
Mayfly starting on Melvin, trout fishing to pick up Lough Melvin remained fairly quiet again this week from the 15th until the 21st of May with few boats out after salmon. The Mayfly have started to hatch with fly reported in Kinlough Bay and rods reported good sport with Sonaghan pursuing hatching mayfly. The trout […]
Declan Gibbons reports that the rise in temperatures saw greater numbers of fish caught due to better hatches with fish being taken on buzzer, olives and mayfly. Mayfly hatches are getting going in most areas, as the whitethorn trees begin to blossom. Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge, Glencorrib (www.corribangling.com) reports a mixed week with […]
‘In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside 24 hours’ Mark Twain I’m very conscious of a quote by Oscar Wilde which goes ‘conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative’. While not wanting to be classed as without imagination I still find it a bit of […]