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Good lake for early season wet fly fishing

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  • #52
    madred006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭madred006


    deeperblue11 wrote: »
    its like this; a lake cannot be called a fishery unless there is a hatchery on the shore. a lake is NOT a fishery if there is no hatchery there.

    the club(LSTPA) have been running the hatchery for years . i dont know how many but i presume its well over ten.
    they have been putting fingerlins, by the hundred thousand, into small streams that flow into the lake. they have spent millions, yes millions of pounds/euros, grants and club money on developing spawning beds in the rivers that flow in and out of the lake. this is the reason why the lake is back from the brink.

    and whats the smell you are onn about????

    You need to chill the word fishery has other meanings ie: woodford fishery coolrain fishery tooman fishery many more are all stocked waters and provide fishing . I'm not nor never did doubt the work that has been done up there but it's been stocked and heavily stocked at that with large fish . Like all anglers each has a preference for where to fish you obviously love Sheelin and good for you , but I'm not in agreement with you as to it been best lake in Europe . And maybe in few years it will be but it has a way to go yet , tight lines :-)


  • #53
    Flysfisher
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭Flysfisher


    deeperblue11 wrote: »
    have you ever heard of lough sheelin?????? best brown trout lake in ireland if not europe.

    When he said midland lakes, that to me ment the lakes around mullingar and athlone, not cavan, personally ive never consider sheelin as a midland lake so keep calm.


  • #54
    Flysfisher
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭Flysfisher


    deeperblue11 wrote: »
    its like this; a lake cannot be called a fishery unless there is a hatchery on the shore. a lake is NOT a fishery if there is no hatchery there.

    the club(LSTPA) have been running the hatchery for years . i dont know how many but i presume its well over ten.
    they have been putting fingerlins, by the hundred thousand, into small streams that flow into the lake. they have spent millions, yes millions of pounds/euros, grants and club money on developing spawning beds in the rivers that flow in and out of the lake. this is the reason why the lake is back from the brink. not stocking!!!!!

    and whats the smell you are onn about????

    Your are correct about the stocking with mature fish it's a waste of time, they disapear and dont spawn, its proven.
    All the trout I caught this season so far about 40-50 have been wild.
    As you say the reason the lake has come back is the work of the lstpa without them and them alone the lake would be in a poor state.

    Alarmingly the IFI actually allow for 'anglers' to kill three fish each per day which in this day and age is just madness. Just shows how far off the pace they are.

    Killing wild trout should not be allowed on this lake.

    Whether the lake is the 'best' is hard to say, that's largely a matter of personal experience and opinion. The angler who fishes mask or corrib regularly and who has success there may not agree. You see it's all lakes are different. To me sheelin is up there with the best dry fly lakes around, but I can't say its definatively the best.


  • #55
    Flysfisher
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭Flysfisher


    madred006 wrote: »
    Yes of course I do it's a stocked fishery and as such cannot be compared to the likes of corrib mask conn , but it had to be stocked in order to save it ,and it's a work in progress and great work at that the smell of it does me I just don't like it .

    Mmmm think your wrong there. Stocking did not save the lake. Over the years the IFI (under various other names and guises) put over three million mature stocked trout from the fish farm in roscrea into lough ennell. This was over a long period of time I believe around 30 years.
    In recent genetic surveys of ennell trout the scientists can not find any descendants of the three million stocked trout. In other words the stocked fish did not spawn and are gone. They have left no lineage worth talking about. They contributed nothing in the long term.

    So stocking does not 'save' any lake, in fact far from it the stocked trout probably do more long term harm than good.

    The ongoing recovery of sheelin has absolutely nothing to do with stocking.


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