A persistently cold north to north easterly wind coupled with night time frosts caused a staggered and somewhat patchy start to Lough Sheelin’s 2020 mayfly season. Despite the unwelcome chill Ephemera danica still made its presence felt here with a particularly impressive hatch around 3pm last Thursday followed by a heart stopping rise of […]
Alan Broderick from Fish Wild Ireland has been in contact to let us now that fishing has been slow in the Westmeath area over the winter with the best of the fishing towards the tail end of 2019. A number of Alan’s guests fishing in the Westmeath and Midlands areas had some good fishing […]
Husband and wife Cédric and Frauke from Belgium have made a great start to their pike fly fishing week with Melview Fishing Lodge; it’s their first time to Melview and the first time to Ireland for Frauke. Host Kevin Lyons reports that they have been catching great fish, with a number being over the magic […]
Declan Gibbons reports on the fishing on L. Corrib: Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge http://www.corribangling.com reports of mixed angling with many guests struggling and some catching good fish, Craig Freas from the USA fished for two days and boated four trout from 1.5Lbs up to 4.5Lbs. Father and Son Duo Dave and David Kent […]
A report from the 3rd Trial of the year held at Loughanure Lake, Co. Donegal. Members of the Irish Ladies Flyfishing Association travelled to Loughanure Lake, Annagry. Co. Donegal last weekend for the Ulster Trial and 3rd trial of the year to select their 2020 International Team to represent Ireland at the Ladies […]
Declan Gibbons reports on an improvement on Corrib over the last few days: Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge www.corribangling.com says angling was much improved over the last week with late mayfly hatching producing good sport. Early morning Caenis fishing has been busy with some good catches. UK angler Ben Watson fished for 4 […]
Last week, well-travelled Swedish fly angler, Leif Stävmo, was fishing the River Suir. Leif really knows his fishing and made the most of his time on the River Suir and its tributaries. Fishing mostly streamers he caught some of the river’s best fish and managed to impress his Irish hosts from Clonanav Fly Fishing. […]
Water levels are dropping nicely on the River Boyne and a few salmon are still travelling through to Navan and beyond. April produced around 15 to 20 salmon with the best fish reported to be circa 20lbs. Fish of 18lbs and 16lbs were also recorded and fly, spinner and shrimp all produced fish. Now into […]
Michael Flanagan reports from the Midlands: We featured some fantastic characters in recent years in Angling Focus and Bob Bettinson is up there with the best. Bob and his wife Shirley were staying in the splendid Bloomfield House Hotel on the shore on Ennell and Bob was over to judge the National Alpaca Show in […]
The lads from Boyne Valley Fishing Guides were in contact with IFI recently to let them know that they have been doing a bit of fishing recently on Lough Sheelin. They report that fishing has been tough over the last while, but there were small windows of opportunity on some of the days. […]