Richie Ryan, the pride of Carlow, bass angling guide and Cork Harbour afficinado has been in touch with another fishy tale. Richie takes up the story. Heading out with my good friends Kevin Mc Loughlin and Dr. Jacques Bronkhorst for one of our fishing forays we were seriously disappointed to see an East wind whipping up […]
The numbers of children are taking up fishing as a sport is often a concern to us here but this recent booking with Richie Ryan gave us all a bit of hope. Richie takes up the story… Recently I received a call from a Godfather who wanted to take his two Godchildren out fishing. […]
That Carlow guide living in Cobh had an interesting booking recently. You never know who is going to make an appearance on your boat. Eire Bass guide Richie Ryan takes up the story… The great thing about the guiding business is the variety of people you meet. I’ve had Derek Davis, RIP, out a few […]
Earlier in the year two German fly anglers went to the Fly Fishing Exhibition in Munich where they asked about a guide they had booked in Cobh for a week in June. Delighted at the positive response they got from the IFI stand about Richie Ryan the Eire Bass guide they were now happy about […]
It is not just salmon, sea trout and brown trout that draws fly-fishers to the Ring of Kerry in Ireland. The circle can be completed with sea bass, pollack and mullet. Lough Currane has for many years been Ireland’s major fly-fishing water for big sea trout. Tens of thousands of this species run up the […]
The Irish folk song ‘The Irish Rover’ is about a magnificent, but unlikely sailing ship which goes down in an unfortunate way. The song has been covered by many artists. Around the middle of September we went to Ireland looking for Irish rovers that could entertain us. First of all we were guests on board […]
After a very successful inaugaural year the second Kilchoman UK Saltwater Flyfishing Festival will be held from 15th to 18th September 2016, based and hosted around the historic fishing harbour of St Mawes, Cornwall. Participants will fish from the shoreline, using the many beaches and rocky areas where sport is to be found, using your […]
“There is more to fishing than just fishing”, a saying that most certainly holds its truth for the Irish county of Donegal. It is of course possible to just sleep, eat, fish, eat and sleep again, but one hardly learns to know the people and the country in this way. In Donegal one can, […]
After our first quest for Irish predators, we made a new trip to the green island a year later searching for Irish rovers. New waters and new spots were fished, with several unsuspected discoveries as a nice result. Paradise for the belly boat angler If you take a closer look at the area around Killeshandra […]