{"id":16953,"date":"2025-01-12T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/?p=16953"},"modified":"2025-01-12T05:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T03:58:06","slug":"saoirse-don-phalaistin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/12\/saoirse-don-phalaistin\/","title":{"rendered":"Saoirse Don Phalaist\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fishing continues, both work and pleasure. It’s been one of the most challenging seasons to date with extreme wind being the hardest factor. Some days I tried to hide from it, other days I went into the teeth of it. I got the desired results most days but they didn’t come easy. With the challenge came greater satisfaction with a good result. I had a day in early November fishing on my own in a blizzard with 100kph gusts. I was on a high country lake. 1 degree celsius. I loved it for myself but I’m glad I wasn’t guiding in it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things are getting warm here now and with that the terrestrials are about. My cicadas are working well whether I’m seeing them on the water or not. They’re also available in a size 6 this year which will work well for the larger West Coast and beach forest cicadas. I’m currently working on a few new patterns for the 2026 Fulling Mill catalog. You can check out my current range of flies here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was great to fish with Mark Regan over here. I know Mark from fishing Corrib back home and we have many mutual friends. We had a couple of great days on the water together. A sunny still water day with lots of fish on buzzers – Mark is no stranger to fishing buzzers! – and then a river day in the rain with a steady stream of mayflies trickling down all day. We had some great dry fly action with trout to 6lbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still some availability from later in March, a lovely time of year! Let me know if you’d like to book or if you have any questions, just ask. More info here<\/a> or email me at ronan@sexyloops.com<\/em><\/strong>. Photos below tell the story up to about mid December. More to come as soon as I get a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be nice to see an end to the genocide in Gaza but it looks like rubble isn’t good enough for the Israelis. I think they’re aiming to turn the place to dust. What will be left for the remaining Palestinians? There’s basically nothing left already. This atrocity has left me with a constant sadness since the start. Not just because of the genocide but because of the complicity of our governments, the lies from mainstream media, the silence from celebrities and influential people. It looks like Israel has occupied them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tight Lines, Ronan..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crazy wind and freezing..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No problem keeping the beer cold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The best of 3 from the blizzard on a bugger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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5pm I called it a day. 1 degree the truck told me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A much nicer day for Mark from the motherland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had a few stunning trout from my secret dam on my dads buzzers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then to the river..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A brilliant day where they only wanted dries – My 12 kiwi dun mostly..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The best of the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back he goes..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Solid action all day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Well bent!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple of days with Tim and Kel..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beginners, they had 1 each per day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great early season water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A really top end trout for this river for Kel. 16 claret.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great day on my own. I walked about 9ks of
river and got picked up at the other end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plenty of these and a few better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I enjoyed walking the river as much as the fishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sandy road awaiting my pick up from Robbie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robbies first cast on this lake..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Superb colours..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This super specimen for me on my unweighted nymph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This tank on my indicator dry size 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back he goes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Camp Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This fish took my farther into my backing than I’ve even been with a trout.. Straggle nymph size 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robbie, Dougal and myself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dougal heads off to explore a shoreline..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great couple of days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 1 with Graeme.. Hiding from the wind!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hard day with every trout in a tough position.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A cracking rainbow under a log. Graeme
nailed the bow and arrow cast but no joy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another day another river..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A very welcome trout.. They did not come easy. Kiwi Dun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 3 it all came together..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great start on my claret 16.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then this 7lb brute..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As good as I’ve seen from this river.
I don’t think the photo does him justice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Action all day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 1 with Jeff and Bill – more fuckin wind!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jeff loads the bow..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Today I decided to go into thick of
the wind instead of hiding from it..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It worked but it was tough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wind..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A nice day finally…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And great fishing..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tank for Bill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jeff I to one..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A lovely trout..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back like a shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hiding from the wind again..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One on my dun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A welcome fish on a hard day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice place to be..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great start but it got away, so did many more!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great day..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading home.. to be continued.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fishing continues, both work and pleasure. It’s been one of the most challenging seasons to date with extreme wind being the hardest factor. Some days I tried to hide from it, other days I went into the teeth of it. I got the desired results most days but they didn’t come easy. With the challenge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1403,1066,1401,1199,1402,481],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17019,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions\/17019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}