‘The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials’ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The elements as they say in Cavan ‘played holy hell’ with the fishing on Lough Sheelin for the last few weeks. There was a persistent disagreeable and unseasonable mix of continuous rain, nightly chills and contrary wind changes. The […]
Declan Gibbons has all the new from Lough Corrib from the middle of September… In the Cornamona area on Thursday last John Somerville enjoyed a days fishing on Thursday last landing three trout with his best being a pound and a half all daphnia feeders and all sportingly released. In the Inishmacateer area on […]
Ronan Cusack reports that angling on Mask has been a bit hit and miss recently as the 2017 season comes close to an end. Westport Angling Club held the Joe Berry cup on Mask and Carra last week which was won by Jonathan O’Grady of Westport with four fish for 5.75lbs. Ronan Gibbons also from […]
‘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 […]
‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see’ Henry David Thoreau August is a fishing month that can sometimes be mistakenly written off by anglers as being slow and sluggish with not much happening, a month of ‘resting up’ as such before that final blast into the last leg of […]
‘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 […]
Declan Gibbons gives an overview of angling on Lough Corrib in the second half of July which saw an improvement on mayfly and sedges. In the Oughterard area, Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (tel.: +353 (0)91 – 552 550) reports of greatly improved fishing in the area predominantly due to mayfly: – Colin Wright from […]
Declan Gibbons, reporting from the shores of Lough Corrib, told us in early June that the trout angling quietened down in the week gone by with lesser hatches of mayfly and changeable weather conditions. The anglers who had the best success were Caenis fishing. Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge Glencorrib (corribangling.com) reports of […]
Ronan Cusack reports the changeable weather on Mask over the last week resulted in mixed angling reports. The early part of last week brought bright sunshine and soft winds, which was closely followed by a drop in temperatures and strong westerly winds on Saturday. The heat and light winds returned again on Sunday and Monday […]