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 […]
‘For me, Fly Fishing is Zen, you need to be in tune, never give up, read the water, the fish may not always bite, but at least you’re presenting the meal’. John Suhar This was a week of tropical heat, spectacular hatches of mayfly and surface carpeting of spent on Lough Sheelin. From nowhere […]
Plenty of small trout and some big ones taking mayfly on Ennell Angling guide Mick Flanagan tells us: Plenty of boats were out and about last week on Ennell, as the first few spent Mayfly dropped back out on the Lake. Many anglers reported catching quite a number of small fish, but the odd […]
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 […]
‘Fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day’ Carl Sagan Very early on this week I was reliably informed that mayfly had been spotted down at Crover – one or two, so every evening subsequently I made a point of walking the shoreline from Crover House Hotel […]
Heatwave slows mayfly but buzzer provides great sport on Corrib Please note: There have been a spate of fires around the country recently, including a huge forest fire in the Cloosh Valley, with smoke drifting over Corrib for the past few days. Many anglers enjoy lunch on an island or shoreline, which may include lighting […]
‘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 […]
Angling guide Richie Johnston from “guidefishingireland” was in contact with David Byrne in early June with some news and a few photos from Azim Currimjee’s annual mayfly trip to fish Lough Sheelin. Azim travels all the way from Mauritius to fish for Sheelins’ wild brown trout. Richie reports that fishing was tough despite great hatches […]
Anders had a great day in one of the finest trout rivers in southern Sweden during mayfly hatch. And, by the way, these are pure native wild brown trout.