Lough Lene
I’m a bit late with the blog this week because i’ve been out fishing every evening. I’ve been chasing small trout from local mountain lakes. They keep me sharp! Anyway, here is the news..
Dad and I enthusiastically set off on Saturday morning hoping for a decent day buzzer fishing on Corrib. Conditions were good. We fished hard all day and rose one fish for our efforts. Reports from the lake are terrible.. Competition results really sum it up. 20 anglers out in a competition on Sunday for zero fish. Yes, ZERO.
As planned John and I set off early on Sunday morning to meet up with other Irish pike fly fishermen. We are all members of the PFFA, the meeting was arranged through the forum which is for members only. The Irish Pike Fly Fishing Association has very few members so why not join us and come along to the next fishing meet! Here is a link.. http://www.pffa.co.uk/clubmembership.htm
John and I arrived 10 minutes late and the lads were already on the water so we got rigged up quick and started fishing. Johns fly resembled a dead parrot and i suggested he change it.. the words hardly left my mouth and i was made eat them! John was in (he asked me not to tell you that this was his first pike of 2011 so I wont because I’m a true friend). After a good battle I netted johns superb 20lb plus pike. We need a scale (and a bigger net!). That was all our pike action that day. One of the other lads had an 11lb fish and moved lots more.
For the last few hours we targeted trout. This worked out well because they started rising in the evening to adult chironomid (duck fly we call them over here). We had 14 on buzzers, small wets and dries. That was 12 fantastic hours on the water.
Tomorrow I’ll be on corrib (for pike! but I’ll have a trout rod too).. or maybe somewhere new? not sure yet…
Good Luck! Ronan..
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- A corrib buzzer, No fish to be seen though..
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- Preparation for Sunday..
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- Johns Dead Parrot..
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- Breakfast! “there’s nothing in the fridge… except rashers, eggs and white pudding!”
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- Lough Lene
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- Not yet ready for the net!
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- The man and his fish!
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- The beast on her way home!
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- This fly has been working well for me.
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- Perfectly hooked on a buzzer.
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- A little brown about to swim away..
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- I’m going to wear this ridiculous red hat until Paul sends me a sexyloops one. to make it worse, Its a golf hat!!
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- John into a good brown with his 10 weight!
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- The best rainbow of the day came just on dark..
