A lovely piece of footage below from Andrew McGall’s YouTube channel featuring some of his best ‘takes’ while salmon fishing in 2020. Andrew fishes the River Finn as well as many other rivers in the north and north west. If this video doesn’t get your heart racing at the thought of that first hit from […]
The latest episode of Ireland on the Fly was recorded as a video webinar in conjunction with the 2020 Virtual Irish Fly Fair which has been organising talks and fly tying demos online in place of the usual fair in Galway that was postponed due to Covid. Daire Whelan was joined by renowned fisheries scientist, […]
Fly-tier and angling guide George McGrath’s super Youtube channel Gundog and Fly pays host to a series of interviews with well know anglers. The series was cut short unfortunately by the lockdown, but you can watch the first four online now. Episode 3. Sean Maher George’s notes: Another fascinating chat with one of Ireland’s top […]
Fly-tier and angling guide George McGrath’s super Youtube channel Gundog and Fly pays host to a series of interviews with well know anglers. The series was cut short unfortunately by the lockdown, but you can watch the first four online now. Episode 2. David O’Donovan George’s notes: Another fascinating chat with one of Irelands top fly […]
Another look back through our angling heritage and this time it is to River Slaney and the Munster Blackwater we go to see how things were with the 1988 Channel 4 angling documentary series ‘The Angling Experience’, this one posted on the Swelly Dave Youtube channel. Narrated by another friend of angling recently lost […]
Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations 2020 and Conservation Measures for the 2021 Season. Open for submissions from 12 November 2020. Submissions closed 11 December 2020. Consultation is open Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, gives statutory notice of his intention to make the Wild Salmon and Sea […]
Peter Driver of Piscari Fly continues his series of live fly tying demos at his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Piscarifly/. Peter’s notes: Live this coming Saturday Night we will be live right here @piscarifly for our second instalment of Nymphing November. Make sure and check in for some fly tying, Nymphing tips and a bit of fun from […]
Another line cast through the RTE archives has landed a super short video on the first professionally taught fly fishing course in Ireland, hosted by Lal Faherty of Oughterard from his Lakeland Angling Centre and guesthouse overlooking Lough Corrib’s Portacarron Bay. Lal, who has a long history of involvement in angling and fisheries management, has […]
Inland Fisheries Ireland is planning to encourage more ladies to enjoy the benefits of angling. Between April and September 2020 they are planning to run a number of taster days on the rivers Blackwater, Shannon and Moy. Women who have never fished before will receive an introduction to all freshwater fishing techniques and for all […]
IFI is aware of the recent agreements at EU level which aim to introduce new bag limits etc for Bass angling. • Catch and Release for January and February • Bag limit of 2 fish per day per angler for the rest of the year • Minimum landing size 42cm Anglers are advised that the […]