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- Hometown:
- Shrule, Co Mayo
- Number of Salmon caught 2008 season
- None but not fished for salmon yet this year
- Number of Trout caught > 1lb 2008 season
- So far (Mar 23) 5 but all caught trolling. Had one on the fly of about 3lb which escaped after a long tussle
- Local water
- Corrib
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Hatches - or lack of!!!
Out on the Corrib today, 4 of us in 2 boats fishing round Galcarrig Island and Lime island. Saw virtually no duckfly and one of us had heard tell that the duckfly had more or less finished despite none of us seeing more than a few from time to time. Also, there were quite a lot of olives hatching today and lots of gulls were hoovering them up - but virtually no sign of fish taking them. Does anyone know whats going on? Or were we just unlucky?
Posted on 3rd April 2008 at 8:13pm —
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Had a cracking start to the year trolling on the Corrib but not tried the rivers yet.
Does anyone have any ideas of where I can fish on the Black River in Shrule. Do I have access to the river by the road bridge. I'm only used to river fishing in the UK where all river access is private land or controlled by the clubs so I can't gey my head round just helping myself to river fishing.
Also where might be a good place on the Clare River to fish the fly preferably as near to Shrule as practical.… Continue
Posted on 25th March 2008 at 7:34pm —
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As Conor said, the Clare is currently unfishable by fly. To be honest i dont use the bridge depth markers as a guide for fishing conditions so i'm of no use to you regarding this. I'm used of the river now and make my call by "the look of it". I'll give you a shout when i'm heading out and i'll show you my usual spots.
Shane
I'm from England and moved here in August 2006 and currently live about 6 miles outside Headford right on the shores of the Corrib. We bought (and paid for) a house near Shrule in March but can't move in yet as the water supply is contaminated so we're taking action against the builder at the moment. So sadly we'll be moving away from the loughside soon.
I've not managed to get a lot of fishing done this year but hopefully I'll get some fly fishing for pike over the next few months which will be a totally new experience.
I'm looking forward to learning about the fishing on the Clare river over the next months.