The smaller and medium-sized rivers I am guiding in an almost exclusive fashion do not carry any names nor will they have GPS coordinates.
Secrets of Ireland: Fly-fishing on hidden rivers and Lough Sheelin
Tag: Sheelin
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 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 […]
Persistent, disagreeable, unseasonable Sheelin and a few trout
‘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 […]
Nocturnal perfection and the ecstasy of a Sheelin 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, […]
Sheelin trout fishing in August: Good but hard in erratic conditions
‘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 […]
Challenging conditions on Lough Sheelin
‘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, […]
Sunset proves the best time for fishing at Lough Sheelin
‘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 […]
Sheelin mayfly, the gold of sunset and sunrise
‘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 […]
Mayfly hatch but weather shows no mercy on Sheelin
‘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 on Corrib and Sheelin
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 […]