[Mau5]

I was wondering about the brown trout season in lough corrib,
Is it too late in the season to be fishing brown trout with spinners or bait rather than fly? I have no experience in fly fishing but would like to go to lough corrib sometime before the end of september.

Thanks

[coolhandspan]

too late now, season closed. in my honest opinion spinning for troutr on corrib should be either banned orcatch and release only. i have done it myself but stocks are crashing hard and wrfb are afraid to admit it..............

[demanufactured]

They'll probably blame the pike and start gill netting again.....muck savages.

[twomeys]

What have happened stocks coolhands? My brother in law loves fishing there but I havent had the chance yet. Is it gone that bad?

[experimenter]

Why not head off to some stockie place, pay a few €€€ and spin there and give those poor brownies a break..

[fisherking]

Spinning in somewhere like the corrib is shameful behaviour
Learn to fly fish over the winter
February is around the corner......

Originally Posted by Mau5

I was wondering about the brown trout season in lough corrib,
Is it too late in the season to be fishing brown trout with spinners or bait rather than fly? I have no experience in fly fishing but would like to go to lough corrib sometime before the end of september.

Thanks

[mattcullen]

why is spinning so harmfull? is it that more fish are caught (ie too effective) or because of the use of treble hooks causing harm to the fish? If so would use of a single hook not solve that?

[experimenter]

Think about it, a whopping treble hook in a small fish!

[Caribs]

Originally Posted by demanufactured

They'll probably blame the pike and start gill netting again.....muck savages.

..muck savages...seriously..??

[seamusmcspud]

lads ...lets be honest, even at its peak is spinning that effective on corrib???
maybe for perch but nice trout?? if you know where to go please reply as i've had some terrible lean times up there and have tried all methods, fly(wet and dry) dapping, trolling all sorts of stuff and spinning but alas if the trout aren't on they simply are very difficult to catch. have found this year that they may only come on for half an hour a day and you'd just wanna be lucky...

[Zzippy]

Originally Posted by coolhandspan

too late now, season closed. in my honest opinion spinning for troutr on corrib should be either banned orcatch and release only. i have done it myself but stocks are crashing hard and wrfb are afraid to admit it..............

Have you any evidence to support that claim?
Thought not...
Whereas the most recent survey report (2008) conducted by IFI under the Water Framework Directive ( http://www.wfdfish.ie/wp-content/upl...eport_2008.pdf ) shows that "Brown trout CPUE was approximately twice as high in 2008 compared to 1996." This would appear to contradict your claim. But hey, what would the scientists know...

The survey was repeated in 2011 but the CPUE stats are not available on the website yet. I met an angler I know last week who had his best year for about a decade on the lake and was very happy with fish stocks. Its not proof, but its about as scientific as your claim that "stocks are crashing".

And BTW, if stocks were crashing, IFI (not WRFB anymore) would be very concerned and would certainly not be hiding it, or "afraid to admit it".

[Paparazzo]

Some weird comments here about spinning. But it's too late in the year, best thing it to do it next year, but get a boat if you can and spin from that. It's such a big lake that there's always going to be places to spin from the shore, but a boat would make it much easier.

[fisherking]

The problem with trollers on corrib is that the vast majority if them kill and sell their catch
In my opinion trolling should be called "boating" instead of fishing
Spinning from the shore is fine i think..... not for me but each to their own....

Originally Posted by Paparazzo

Some weird comments here about spinning. But it's too late in the year, best thing it to do it next year, but get a boat if you can and spin from that. It's such a big lake that there's always going to be places to spin from the shore, but a boat would make it much easier.

[bayliner]

Originally Posted by fisherking

The problem with trollers on corrib is that the vast majority if them kill and sell their catch
In my opinion trolling should be called "boating" instead of fishing
Spinning from the shore is fine i think..... not for me but each to their own....

spinning is fine now? it was shameful a few posts ago!!
where is your evidence that trollers SELL the fish they kill?? i dont fish corrib but would be shocked if this is true,
i fly fish and troll lough ree and have done for over 30 yrs, 40 to 50% of anglers both trolling and flyfishing regularly use the catch and release method and no one that i know off sell fish!!

[Paparazzo]

Originally Posted by fisherking

The problem with trollers on corrib is that the vast majority if them kill and sell their catch
In my opinion trolling should be called "boating" instead of fishing
Spinning from the shore is fine i think..... not for me but each to their own....

Rubbish. First of all spinning from a boat isn't trolling. Spinning from a boat is similar to fly fishing. Cast out your lure from a floating boat and retrieve it.
The vast majority of trollers kill and sell their catch?? Are you having a laugh?