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: Lough
Salmon & Sea-trout fishing at Lough Inagh, Connemara, in Ireland’s most stunning scenery
Lough Inagh Lodge Hotel offers salmon, sea-trout and brown trout fishing in some of Ireland’s most stunning scenery in Connemara. Spring salmon fishing from March, grilse from July and sea trout and brown trout fishing on the lakes up to the end of September. It is located against a magnificent back-drop of mountain and ancient […]
Off the Scale – Issue 22 – online now!
This one almost didn’t make it due to other fishy commitments but fear not because the latest issue of Ireland’s best angling magazine is now here! On the front cover, the magazine pays homage to the catastrophic carp deaths in Cork recently, notably the infamous Lough in Cork City. Bill Brazier, Editor of Off the […]
Mayfly up on Lough Arrow
Angling on Lough Arrow improved considerably over the past peek with plenty mayfly hatching throughout the day. Dapping & wet flies worked best with some nice fish beeing caught late in the evening. Finian Dodd reported that many anglers enjoyed good sport and that fishing has much improved over recent days. Dr. Tissi & friend […]
Mayfly patchy but excellent fishing reported from Corrib
Declan Gibbons reports from Lough Corrib, where despite sporadic hatches, many anglers enjoyed excellent fishing. Mayfly hatches have been good in some parts of the lake and patchy in others, while Campto buzzer have hatched consistently in some bays and buzzer fishing has produced some great trout this week as conditions were ideal for it […]
Corrib warms up for the mayfly
Lough Corrib is seeing small hatches of olives at the moment, but wet fly fishing and buzzers are taking most fish. No big sign of mayfly yet, and with the whitethorn bush still showing no sign of flowering, it may be another while yet. Weather over the past week has ranged from sunshine and flat […]
Sun shines on the Munster Blackwater and Lough Beltra, salmon caught
Well done to Noel’s father Seamus Fitzmaurice who was fishing on the Blackwater Salmon Fishery‘s Ballyhooly Beat on Sunday. Seamus caught and released a lovely spring salmon from the castle flat on what was a pleasant Spring day. On Thursday last week, 22 March, an 8lbs salmon was landed and released on the Ballyduff Bridge […]
New website showcases Lough Corrib’s assets
The Lough Corrib Angling Federation unveiled their impressive new website on a Wednesday evening in mid March at a launch held at the Commercial Boat Club, Galway. Chairman Denis Healy welcomed everyone to the launch, and spoke about the work the federation is carrying out on spawning and feeder streams, in association with Cairde na […]
Minister Kyne welcomes Owenriff Stock Management Plan and Survey by Inland Fisheries Ireland
Efforts to rehabilitate salmon and trout populations and maintain genetic diversity planned for Lough Corrib tributary. Sean Kyne TD, Minister with responsibility for Inland Fisheries, has last week welcomed the development, by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), of a specific stock management plan for Galway’s Owenriff system aimed at removing pike from the system as a […]
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 […]