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Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Trout Season 2021

 So far it's been a bust, heavy rain run off causing bad visibility and very muddy conditions. I thought I saw a trout rising a few days ago but I think it just came up to see where it was, more than likely it was lost. Hopefully the next few dry days will reduce the water height and improve clarity as I'm hoping to catch on fly preferably dry but at this stage a streamer will do.


As you can see in this photo the clarity is starting to improve maybe 18 inches at the moment but with the water dropping hopefully it'll improve enough to catch. 



Tuesday, 16 February 2021

River Lee Video footage 16/02/21.

 Some video footage I took around five o clock and water was still rising fast.


         
                

The River Lee.

Well had a look again today but water level was rising but the clarity was okay. Didn't even attempt to fish but saw a few guys trying to wade near the bank.....not a good idea in those conditions. Here are a few pictures from lower down by the Kingsley weir taken around 5 o clock and water was still rising, I can only imagine what it's going to be like tomorrow after all the rain. The red dot in the river is a guy swimming........

Monday, 15 February 2021

Trout Fishing Season 2021" Opening Day ".

Well I'll just let the pictures do the talking for me, it was obviously way too high but clarity was just too bad for anything but some garden olives ( worms ).


Friday, 12 February 2021

Trout Fishing Season 2021.

Just putting the finishing touches to my fly selection for this years trout season, I haven't really been doing alot of writing on this blog over the last year or so but that ends this year. The salmon fishing is going to be hard this year not from a fishing point of view but mainly getting access to my fishing spot and brown tag regulations. The rivers are in full flood at the moment and unfortunately with so much rain and snow due over the coming days its going to be hard to find a spot within my 5km area thats not flooded out. On one of my short walks by the river recently I did spy the odd trout rising for dries, even in the high water the few back eddies and calm areas off the main current had small hatches of fly and trout were feeding there. Time was the main factor, it was mainly late in the evening just before last light. Having had some great sport over the last few years mainly on dries I have developed some nice generic patterns that cover most of the natural hatches mainly in profile not necessairly in colour. Also the attention to detail regarding preparing the dry fly with floatant and even making my own fullers earth because I wasn't happy with the products out there have definitely increased my success rate and hook ups.Having caught big trout and salmon over the last few years my attention has turned to size and fishing dries in size 18 and 20 barbless works very well for me. I have a few videos on youtube that I will attach to this blog soon showing me catching both salmon and trout on small dries and also this year I will be using klink and dink, czech nymphing, spiders and also streamers to catch some cracking trout. There are a few rivers that I would like to hit this year for trout namely the Blackwater, Suir,Bandon,Lee, Sullane and the Laune to see if my methods and flies score well there. Hopefully I can get out for an hour on opening day for a cast and it will be dries that I'm going to try regardless of water height or weather. I have a small tidy 4wt 8ft dry fly rod ideal for fishing in small areas that will allow me to poke a fly into some very hard to access areas but that's the nature of things , wild fishing isn't easy and catching is harder. I will hopefully have a report for the coming opening day 15th of February ...stay tuned..

Friday, 22 November 2019

Sea trout fishing at night.

Just a link to a youtube video I made recently where I caught some nice sea trout on the fly at night. Normally I would have a big trout video at this time of year but water levels were all wrong so I just concentrated on the sea trout. Here is the link .  https://youtu.be/jxCwrWBavJI

Saturday, 15 December 2018

Fly Fishing with Soft Hackle Spiders Part2.

 
         

Part 2 of the video where I am delighted by the response to my spiders by some sea trout and salmon not to mention some cracking brown trout in complete darkness.