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Fished upstream of Claregalway for 2 hours today in glaring sunshine. A few small fish rising but not showing any interest to my dries. I switched to a beaded hares-ear and within an hour had bagged 8-10 trout on the same stretch, most between 1/2 - 1lb. No monsters but i briefly hooked and lost a fish closer to 3lbs.

Below is a link to some video footage of a large 3lbs+ trout surface feeding on Midge in the canal - Cut and paste into browser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AvjqOf-6x4

I had my first day back on the canal today but unfortunately the gods didn't smile.
Wet fly fished and gave the nymphs a try but the day was very blustery with heavy showers of rain and hail. All the same it was good to get out for a cast. I'm working in Cong/Clonbur for the next 2 weeks so i might have to take some extra long lunch breaks.

Gave Portacarron bay, Mogans bay and The Fudges another shot today. A bright start with SW winds, clouding over by 2pm and blowing strong by 6pm. Fish moving to duck fly between 3pm and 4pm. Conor and I had a fish a piece to the rear off the Fudges on consecutive drifts during this period. Both around 1.5lbs. (Picture Posted) Both fell to Duckfly emergers, one with lure flash and one with an orange tag. Good quantities of fly now hatching. Reports of good catches taken on buzzers today from a pa… Continue

Drove to Cong on Monday March 24th. Canal banking and unfishably by fly.