Finaly got somthing to tell of Ireland

[lock]

Well they call this summer pretty much our mild winter back home but life is starting to get about the water so hopefully it gets better. I have been trying my hand fishing saltwater , dams (loches) and rivers sofar caught a dog fish ( it is pretty much a small shark) and good handfull of trout. Rainbow at stocked places and brown in the rivers I have been targeting sea trout but no luck as yet. Today though got up at 3am to catch the tide waste of time really nothing around pluss it started to rain as per usual, it stopped about 11 so traded rods and headed the river lee which runs through cork plenty of action first cast with a duck fly buzzer hooked a nice little brown ended up scoring a few more on the same fly. They are not big fish but they are bloody good fun to catch . I am finding this freshwater flyfishing great fun , I am heading to loche corrib next weekend for the mayfly hatch I have read a fare bit about it and people come from all over for the hatch. From what I have read and been told the trout go ballistic. I am hopping to get on to the salmon and seatrout as the season go's on aswell ,I am only over here for year so I have to keep at it. I will put some pictures up of some the areas I have fished . cheers lock

[wessel]

Lock

County Cork is just an amazingly beautiful place. I still cant get over the speedlimits they have along those little country lanes. It scared the crap out of me being permitted to do 80 km/h down a road where you never have a view of more than 100 meters before the next bend. And then a tour bus comes at you doing the same speed around a bend :o

Have fun and keep them pictures coming.

Wess

[lock]

Yeah mate your not wrong about the speedlimits and they are mad drivers . But it is beautiful and the people are great would recomend it to anyone. I am learning a bit about this flyfishing game and I can see why people get so involved with it. I will post the pics as soon as I can resize them.
cheers Lock

[billybob3]

Lock

You are in teh better part of that area.

MAte get a hold of some sand eels flies, I used to just tie a longer version of a surf candy and then find a ledge that has a channel running between teh kelp.

In there you should find some callagh/pollock they go hard on teh fly and it takes some getting them in .

We used to get them in teh Isle of Man just using 7 weights and sinking lines. Coal fish are also a propositon as they school pretty easily.
TEh salmon and sea runs are a different kettle mate and there are plenty of gusy who have tried for years to catch them and are still waiting, it is a different world over there but teh people are awesome.

Keep having fun and letting us all know when you get into soem fish.

The sand eels are best tied olive over white and I used supreme hair on a 34007 muxtad.
If you need to take another rod with a plastic on it and get em razzed up a bit.

Good luck

Pete

[karana]

My friends have told me that the Moy has started to run with my favourite the good old Flying C in brown taking its share.

[lock]

Yeah Karana I have bought one of those alot of salmon anglers told me they have one of them ready in case they are not on the flys.
I have been fishing the river lee most nights from about 8 to 11 pm have been catching plenty . I met a local who goes there most nights he showed a couple of different flys to use and it has improved the catch greatly. If it warms slightly the trout go mad. I have been fishing 3 flys and caught 2 at ounce I was that pleasd with myself but when I went bragging to the local fella, he said it happens all the time.(he sure knows how to put a downer on the excitment). He also reckons he can put me onto some good sea trout so fingers crossed. ;)

[karana]

They sure are great folks to fish with. Local knowledge is the key.

I was just thinking about a fillet of lightly fried sea trout with hollandaise sauce. Mmmmmm

[atlantic_salmon]

hey lock, sea trout aint a probalem, just wait until the main run of grisle/peel start to run which is traditionally about the last third of this month, the sea trout run with them up the rivers, with out doubt the best place to hook onto one is at glanmire you can fly fish for them at night or drown some bait by day but the bailifs haunt the place, they wear camo gear and hide in bushes because when the sea trout are holding in the few pools the poachers come with thier 4/0 trebble hooks and drag the thing out sideways, and they still call themselves fishermen???

on a brighter note i am upto 19 salmon for the year and got my biggest on monday, 16lb fish caught while spinning high water with 30lb braid and i straightened the hooks on a far bigger fish 10 minutes later.

if your after a salmon fly stick with cascades in sizes 8,10 and 12 and if they dont have jungle cock on the cheeks dont get them or i couild cathch up with you a just give you a hand full before i post home my fly box, at last count i had tyed up over 600 salmon fly's, irish tv is crap...

[youngfisho]

good to see someone is having some luck with the fish. ive been in the uk for more than three months now, and have been once. everytime i think about heading outside the weather is either raining cats and dogs or is blowing a gale. and the days i do want to fish im working. will have to have some days off in a row so i can get amongst it.


andrew

[lock]

Dont worry andrew I know exactly how you feel the weather can be shite for long periods.

I went up loch corrib in galway , It was a spectacular place ,sun was out a nice 26degrees but there was a problem NO TROUT they all went straight to the holes we fished 4 buzzers on 20 ft leaders ( which can be a pain in the ar** to cast if your not used to it) but made no difference . Second day got up at 5 on the water by half past seen some massive trout moving but they were easily spooked . We were fishing 2 dries on a standard 9 ft leader which was easy enough to cast but getting close enough was hard because water was so clear . Just raising up your rod spooked them. as soon as there was some light on the water fish disapeard and it was back to fishing buzzers . No fish but I learnt a hell of alot from the guide and the scenery was magic Ireland realy is a beautiful place. The guide I had just made the irish fishing team and he did not catch anything either so I did feel as useless ;D . It cost me 240 euro but it still was a great weekend. They did say I could go back up in sep and go out for a day or two for free.
I was a bit dissapointed because I was expecting mayfly but I learnt that they are dissapearing and they dont hatch like they used to . :'( The guide told me he thinks in as little as 5 yrs the may fly at corrib will be a thing of the past.