Gary Smyth's Page

Went out yesterday evening in callow and fished for about 2 hours .Saw a lot of rising trout who were feeding on the surface but mainly just below and seemed to be head and tailin on emergers.used a few olives but they had no interest in them as the predominant fly on the lake seemed to be a tiny chironomid (buzzer) fly ,black in colour that for all the world looked like a tiny black fly . covered a few of these fish but they had no interest in my much bigger olive.

Went out last sunday 19th April to flyfish for pike.Met an experienced pike angler on irish kayak angling site and we fished the whole day with both floating(with heavy fly) and sink lines(with floating fly) .On my third cast I got a small jack pike between one and two pounds.John the guy i was with thought that a lot of the bigger fish may have being spawning at this time.We're going to try it again sometime at the end of may when the bigger fish should be back

Launched at Oughtarard pier about 10a.m and fished the bay for most of the day.Got a kelt about 11.10 a.m and a 3 1/2 pound trout at 11.40 a.m .fished on till 5 that evening and finally landed a one and a half pound trout again in the same area in front of the pier.

Kiltimagh Fishing club had a day on ballinlough ,outside Westport last Sunday 04th may.we started about 12 and fished until 5 p.m that day.lots of fish caught.managed 2 2lb rainbows while my cousin paddy had the heaviest fish at 3 3/4 lbs and another 2 lb one also.found the right hand side as you look out from launch point to be the best and the fish seemed to congregate in shoals . fished with buzzers and they seemed to go for the red cheeked ones.very enjoyable day and would recommend it to an… Continue

Travelled up to Oughtarard last Monday 14th.it was a very bright day with little or no breeze so buzzer fishing was on the cards.we launched just after 10 and made our way down the lake.didn't stir anything for hours and saw some trout rising but not taking the olives that were recently hatching.we were just breaking for lunch when i got my first of the day a 1lb trout which I promptly returned to the lake.After lunch we had more of the same ,fish rising only to refuse olives and our buzzers not… Continue