Fly Fishing on the Dodder

jack01986 · 11-07-2010 7:36pm

Got two nice trout in Clonskeagh area. First time I was able to get some trout out of the river in bright sunny conditions. Took size 24 elk hair sedge with an 8x tippet. Was difficult to tie flies ive gotta tell ya. I think the fish in the first pic is a stockie cus its more golden in colour compared to the usual silvery colour of the dodder trout. Tried up at the dropping well for a bit there was a few other peolpe fishing missed a few rises and had my tippet snapped by a fish. Wasnt exactly a giant as the leader is only 1.8lbs.

b.w.ollie · 12-07-2010 9:44pm

just thought i'd let all you Dodder lads know there is another clean up planned for next wednesday (14th july) meeting at rathfarnham bridge @7.00. weather permitting . you can check if its on by ringing the hon sec (number on back of permit).

wgsten · 14-07-2010 6:26am

b.w.ollie wrote: »

just thought i'd let all you Dodder lads know there is another clean up planned for next wednesday (14th july) meeting at rathfarnham bridge @7.00. weather permitting . you can check if its on by ringing the hon sec (number on back of permit).

Clean up cancelled due to weather. New date will be posted later.
wgsten
http://www.irishflyfisher.ie/

thehamo · 14-07-2010 5:56pm

thinkin of headin up today, what are the chances of getting anything on a size 12/14 fly? Lookin here people seem to be saying size 18 is too big!

jack01986 · 14-07-2010 6:11pm

Should be ok with the size 14 try fish it in the faster water. Ive got fish there on size 12's. Good luck.

peter74 · 20-07-2010 11:47pm

Had a couple of nice evenings on Dodder recently. Usually l start with black midge. Later in the evening l switch to grey duster to see the fly in the dark. That combination is pretty succesful. But is there anything else working for you in the dark?

Evac105 · 16-09-2010 8:17am

Between Templeogue and Rathfarnham Bridge last night - lots of nice water but need to be wading to access a lot of it.

bonzer79 · 29-09-2010 4:54pm

Thinking of heading out for an hour this evening seeing as the season ends tomorrow anyone else going today or tomorrow?

jack01986 · 29-09-2010 11:02pm

bonzer79 wrote: »

Thinking of heading out for an hour this evening seeing as the season ends tomorrow anyone else going today or tomorrow?

Gonna head out for an hour or two tomorrow see if i can get anything before march!:mad:

peter74 · 06-10-2010 8:42pm

It seems that for some people there is no closed season on Dodder. Today l noticed two irish lads fishing worms in Ballsbridge. Anyone can give me phone number for bailiffs?

Kippure · 30-01-2011 2:58pm

Whens the AGM for the Dodder anglers.

jack01986 · 07-02-2011 5:17pm

When does the Dodder open again?

bonzer79 · 07-02-2011 5:23pm

jack01986 wrote: »

When does the Dodder open again?

Fishing season for the dodder starts on the 17th March.

Theriverdodder · 08-02-2011 10:15pm

There is a new dedicated site for the River Dodder www.freewebs.com/clonskeaghfishing/

jack01986 · 08-02-2011 10:59pm

Theriverdodder wrote: »

There is a new dedicated site for the River Dodder www.freewebs.com/clonskeaghfishing/

Nice little site you got there. I do most of my fishing in the clonskeagh area might see you around.

Theriverdodder · 09-02-2011 12:10am

Im sure we willl see each other around Clonskeagh !!!!!Please all Dodder anglers join the site !!!!!

Evac105 · 16-02-2011 1:01pm

Can anyone enlighten me as to the date and location for this year's AGM? We usually receive a letter from DAA with the details in January but no sign of it yet this year. If anyone in the know can let me know I'd appreciate it

bonzer79 · 17-02-2011 5:33pm

Evac105 wrote: »

Can anyone enlighten me as to the date and location for this year's AGM? We usually receive a letter from DAA with the details in January but no sign of it yet this year. If anyone in the know can let me know I'd appreciate it

Letter arrived today meeting is in De La Salle on the 28th Feb @ 19:30

corkagh park fishery · 24-02-2011 11:41pm

peter74 wrote: »

It seems that for some people there is no closed season on Dodder. Today l noticed two irish lads fishing worms in Ballsbridge. Anyone can give me phone number for bailiffs?

01 2787022 or 087 2584174 Inland fisheries Ireland

corkagh park fishery · 24-02-2011 11:42pm

Evac105 wrote: »

Can anyone enlighten me as to the date and location for this year's AGM? We usually receive a letter from DAA with the details in January but no sign of it yet this year. If anyone in the know can let me know I'd appreciate it

Monday 29th Feb, 7.30pm @ DeLaSALLE CHURCHTOWN.

Evac105 · 25-02-2011 9:05am

Thanks folks - got my own copies of the letter about two days after posting. Looking forward to getting more involved in helping maintain the Dodder - enjoyed fishing it for about 8 years now, time for some payback

coolwings · 28-02-2011 10:02am

corkagh park fishery wrote: »

Monday 29th Feb, 7.30pm @ DeLaSALLE CHURCHTOWN.

Just in case of possible confusion:
AGM for Dodder Anglers Assoc is tonight Monday 28th time and location as above.

Evac105 · 02-03-2011 9:27am

Had a walk along up the Dodder yesterday from the Herberton Park Hotel to near Milltown at which point my phone ran out of juice so I couldn't take any more photos. Which was unfortunate as it was then that I spotted three Irish blokes fishing the river. When I approached them saying that the season didn't begin until the 17th I was told that it was all right, they had their licenses so it was okay they were fishing. After this had been repeated at me a few times like some sort of magic charm (along with "tell that to the other 200 people on the river today") I gave up and left. No power on the phone so no call to the IFI number

In any case - for those interested I've loaded the pictures of the river which I captured before the power went onto photobucket:

http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/bb85/Gadai/Dodder%202011/?albumview=slideshow

surripere · 02-03-2011 6:49pm

Thanks for uploading pics, twas nice to get to see the character of the river, for I'm not familar with the Dodder at all, I must give it a whirl sometime, looks sweet.

Theriverdodder · 02-03-2011 8:13pm

I seen them also unfortunately i had no phone. We all need to be vigilant around this time, there is no closed season for poachers.

stevenmu · 18-03-2011 11:32am

I wasn't able to make the AGM unfortunately, did anything of interest happen?

I'd a few nice hours out on the river yesterday evening. Didn't catch anything and I heard the same from lots of others, I think it was a bit cold still. Apparantly there was 800 fish in the 2-3lb rang put in and it sounds like there wasn't too many caught in the opening day slaughter so hopefully they'll get a chance to naturalise a bit and there'll be some very nice fishing there for the summer.

Evac105 · 18-03-2011 1:17pm

Was out yesterday myself - was quite disappointed at the river to be honest. There seems not to have been any floods recently (that's my guess) as there's a layer of heavy silt covering everything, saw less then a dozen fish between Templeogue and Miltown when I would have expected based on previous experience to see small fish darting around more or less the length of the river. Hoping that I was just being un-observant but didn't make me very excited regarding the Dodder this year (or at least the lower reaches).

As a suggestion to the club itself can I recommend taking a more active role in the river. At the moment they see to be focused on being stewards rather managing the development of the Dodder as a resource going into the future. I'm not a fisheries manager and I wouldn't claim to be but groups like the Wye Valley associations in the UK have shown that good development of rivers is essential to their long term viability over there as the more effort put in obvious yields greater rewards but also gives the river a higher profile and greater influence/protection/funding for the future. It would be wonderful if we could work together to begin a similar effort for the Dodder which has to potential to be so much more then it is currently in terms of it's fishing but also in terms of tourism, community development and as a public resource.

thehamo · 20-03-2011 6:47pm

anyone been fising the river over the weekend? Any reports on how its fishing?

jack01986 · 20-03-2011 7:23pm

Was out today plenty of people fishing but I got nothing was on the fly. Spent about 2 hrs at it.

MrO · 21-03-2011 8:55am

jack01986 wrote: »

Was out today plenty of people fishing but I got nothing was on the fly. Spent about 2 hrs at it.

Likewise, couple of bites on Saturday but couldn't land any

Kippure · 21-03-2011 1:57pm

Was the Staunton juvenile cup won on Sunday?

MrO · 28-03-2011 8:52am

Was out again yesterday - still nothing, was a lovely day though. It's now my lifes mission to get one of those trout on the fly

BTW - thanks for the tips to whoever I was talking to on Sunday (I think it was someone from this board)!

fourmations · 28-03-2011 2:58pm

hi

i was out too on dodder park area

it was gin clear and very very low
fish were clearly visible and scattered once you walked towards them
i had one rise, that was it

im doing a rain dance here, it needs some!

cheers

peter74 · 28-03-2011 7:22pm

Today I had two brownies and I missed few more. One came on dry and second on goldhead. Fished with whole family, so l was focused more on my daughter not falling to river

love to fly fish · 01-04-2011 5:48pm

Whats best fly or nymph to use on the dodder now any suggestions. Going to try get out at wkd for spot of fly fishing.

Doc Farrell · 03-04-2011 10:11pm

walked both sides of the Dodder today from irishtown to the dropping well from 4.30 to 7.30 and saw dozens of small fish feeding both sub surface and on the surface.
met a foreign fly fisherman as he was releasing a 6 incher caught on a dry fly. he wasn't a member of the dodder anglers but after he found out its only a tenner for the year he said he would join.

this is my last month or two in the area so i have to get in there one more time.

i was talking to another angler in ballsbridge when there was a big splash. he said it was a sea trout. i would have thought it was a bit early?

fourmations · 04-04-2011 8:42pm

love to fly fish wrote: »

Whats best fly or nymph to use on the dodder now any suggestions. Going to try get out at wkd for spot of fly fishing.

it still quite early and surface activity aint great
(well its last thursday since i was there)

for wets... try pheasant tail nymph preferably gold head
and spiders (snipe and purple or partridge and orange)
and tiny tiny dries (small midges or dusters)

cheers

love to fly fish · 05-04-2011 8:09pm

fourmations wrote: »

it still quite early and surface activity aint great
(well its last thursday since i was there)

for wets... try pheasant tail nymph preferably gold head
and spiders (snipe and purple or partridge and orange)
and tiny tiny dries (small midges or dusters)

cheers

Thanks for the info much appreciated. I was out on saturday and caught a small brownie on a small gold head nymph.

love to fly fish · 12-04-2011 4:49pm

Anybody out on the dodder lately any luck. The water is very low.

stevenmu · 12-04-2011 5:55pm

I was out on Sunday. No luck other than a few bites I missed. I could see plenty in there moving around and some action on the surface so they're definitely there. The water is quite low, but I've seen it far lower and it's fished fine so I wouldn't be too concerned about that, between the water being low and clear and the great sun we're having the fish have excellent visibility, I saw a few come up, look and then shrug at my fly and go back down, so you need to be extra sneaky.

spaceHopper · 12-04-2011 10:15pm

love to fly fish wrote: »

Anybody out on the dodder lately any luck. The water is very low.

One small one on a nymph clase to dark last week lots of fish there but you need the right fly and as has been said the water is so clear that they aren't fooled easily

dOWN BY tHE RivEr · 13-04-2011 4:50pm

caught two nice brownies down rathfarnham on the spinner. lovely. kept them both for my dinner. goin down for more tonight!:D

thehamo · 15-04-2011 7:10pm

Was out today by busy park. Water was very low and gin clear. Managed to get a good few fish all the same. Landed about 6 and missed countless takes/off the hook etc. All taken on nymph.

Hardly monsters tho, biggest about 5" long. Anyone know where I can get the big fella's??

thehamo · 19-04-2011 11:05pm

out again today. Missed a load of rises on the dry but alas, no fish. Was down by dodder park area. water was very low again and super clear. Fish however were rising readily to a tiny little green midge that were in abundance. Smaller than anything I had in my fly box but still managed a few rises on a size 20 olive. Serious head of trout around the 3/4 pound mark, I counted easily 20 all within 50 metres of each other. One big lad about 1.5 lbs rising too but had next to no interest in my presentation!!!

jack01986 · 26-04-2011 8:42pm

Got out for a bit today after work. Got down to the river at Clonskeagh it looked at bit refreshed from the rain this morning which was good, and there was plenty of fish rising about the place. Spotted what looked like a better fish rising beside a branch in the river spent a few minutes watching it rise and it seemed to be taking fairly consistently. Put in a few cast that fell short, then got him on the fourth attempt luckily, he took off downstream into the current and gave a good account of himself got a little video of him in the water but didn't have enough time to get a photo of him out of the water. Was happy with my first fish from the dodder this year, tried for a bit longer but no joy. Got him on a size 16 deer hair sedge with a 6x tippet was fishing it new-zealand style as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbfC7aKQvs8

Doc Farrell · 28-04-2011 9:44pm

methinks u are showing off your new optio w90!

coolwings · 28-04-2011 11:08pm

I love those underwater fishing video clips.

jack01986 · 08-05-2011 10:48am

I was using my go-pro hd Doc Farrell, there might have been some showing off;)

It was fairly awkward trying to film the fish and play him at the same time have to get some sort of mount so I can hold it into the water. Will try get a longer one next time.

jack01986 · 15-05-2011 2:52pm

Was out around Milltown today for a couple of hours today only picked up a couple of smaller ones around the dropping well. Walked down towards the bigger weir further down and rose a few more small ones but couldnt connect to any of them, after another missed strike put the line back down on the water and the biggest fish I've seen on the dodder took my fly. I tried playing him for a few mins and he jumped a couple of times and felt very on the end of the line he looked to be close to 2lb and he eventually spat the hook. I was gutted he got off. Flogged the water again for another while but no joy.

Cdub · 16-05-2011 10:12pm

Guys, any salmon caught on the dodder these days?

Fly Fishing on the Dodder

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