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, […]
The latest episode of Ireland on the Fly podcast covers sees a salmon masterclass from Robert Gillespie who talks to Daire Whelan about how to increase your catch rate, the importance of light conditions and understanding the type of water you’re fishing. Listen and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify […]
‘A legacy greater than Izaak Walton’ The latest episode of Daire Whealan’s Ireland on the Fly podcast covers the remarkable story of Limerick’s Edward Fitzgibbon aka Ephemera who was a giant of angling journalism in England in the 1800s. Daire Whelan speaks to the fly fishing historian and writer, Andrew Herd, about the remarkable life […]
The latest episode of the Ireland on the Fly podcast catches up with two prominent and successful anglers in the south of the country to find how their 2020 season went. Jason Nash is based on the Bandon with occasional forays for bass while James Barry fishes the Copper Coast with salmon fishing also on […]
For this Ireland on the Fly podcast Noel Carr joins Daire Whelan to discuss this year’s salmon runs… It’s been the strangest of summers what with the pandemic, lockdowns, and now reports that the salmon runs have been the best in years. Was it because the rivers and lakes had been rested earlier in the […]