Poll - Where are ye from & what's you fishy pref !

beer enigma

Ok just trying to find out your main fishing preference & rough idea of location to see if we can look at meets/local knowledge etc.

Feel free just to answer the poll if you want your location to remain private, or equally follow up with a post giving whatever you wish, even if its just specific preference ie: deep sea, inshore, beach, pier etc.

For the Pike lads out there - not meant to exclude you, but just wanted to keep the poll as short as poss - please add a post stating just Pike if you don't do the Coarse 'thang'

beer enigma

I'll start the ball rolling - I'm Cork based, coarse & Pike

coolwings

I ticked Leinster - Game, because that's where I trout fish.
But that's summer fishing.
The winter I'm leinster based pike and sea

mp22

West cork, salmon and sea trout (7 or so weeks to the start:D)

SeaFields

I'm based in Cork city but spend a good bit of time in south Kerry fishing too so have knowledge of both if anyones planning a trip later on!

Mostly I fly fish for brownies and seatrout in both areas in lakes and rivers.

For sea fishing love rock hopping in Kerry after anything really with light spinning rod and have started a bit of fly fishing off the rocks with mixed success. For some reason I cant catch anything from a beach - just jinxed when it comes to beach fishing

ironbluedun

good post,

i am dublin based, but mostly fish,
Sheelin, very regurarly.
Corrib.
Carra.
sometimes O flynn.
Owel and Ennell not so much now but in the past.
Galway weir.
Drowse.
Fane.
Moy.
Blackwater, only very occasionally.
Boyne, Dee, Liffey and Slaney sadly in the past, now not any more.
Some carp, tench and pike fishing now and again.
And a good few others as one offs not mentioned above.

Ingenuist

Bohernabreena reservoir for trout in the season, dun laoighre and killiney off season

wgsten

Although i voted as a Leinster game fisher, every open season i travel to many other parts of the country to fish. In the close season i fly fish for pike and also i fish some of the private fisheries for stocked trout. I also sea fish through out the year i.e. beach fishing and spinning from rocks.

wgsten



http://www.irishflyfisher.ie/

ladybirdirl

Ok another blonde moment...game fishing is fly fishing right:p

Though originally from down south, I'm now here in the big smoke!!

So far I've done Rathbeggan,Annamore,along the Dodder,and my secret spot down along the IFSC which is in fact useless I think:mad:


Roll on the fishing season


Lb

ironbluedun

not totally correct but you are nearly there. Tradtionally In Ireland game fishing is generally described as fishing for brown trout, salmon and seatrout (i suppose nowadays you could add rainbow trout to that list but they are not native to this land) I dont believe it matters if you fly fish, spin or use bait, they are still classified as game fish. in the traditional sense game reffers to being edible.

stevenmu

Yep, game or coarse refers to the type of fish you go after. With sea fish I think people either just classify it as general sea fishing or else refer to the individual species (although I think bass are sometimes percieved as the "game" fish of the sea). Then there's pike, which fall somewhere between game and coarse. Most people don't eat pike, but fishing for them can be very similar to game fishing.

Fly fishing is a method, it is normally more associated with game fishing, but can be used for pike, coarse and sea fishing as well.

peterk19

I tend to do mostly sea fishing with bait around Leinster but do travel a lot between Wexford and cork

I also do some lure fishing for bass, I'm going to try fly fishing for Bass this year,

joesoap007

louth piker here,,nothing like hitng the boyne river,,9 times outa 10 you blank,but when you hook up it all ways a nice fish,,pikers have it to ourselfs tink its still closed trout and salmon men, havin seen any dead pike on the bank in ages,so i hope it stays shut for a few more years do the pike no harm,,coarse fishing is second for me love the feeder rod,,had to pack up a few months ago kept hooking what think were young sea trout or salmon ,and that never happed before so i hope the river back at its bestsoon

i allways catch and release

gercon2009

Leinster beach fishing for me and fish all down a long the coast to kerry as well .Great poll by the way

dardevle

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Leitrim.....Melvin mostly and a few other locals....trout.:)



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Ryan!

Hi, new here. Sea fishing during the closed season and a bit of d aul flyfishing after march

ironbluedun

wheres all the lads from the west?

yank_in_eire

Dublin.. mostly sea fishing (with the odd bit of trout thrown in for fun) but always on the fly!

surripere

Leinster based. Troutys on me local river (which I shan't be foolish enough to name ) & a bit of pleasure coarse angling during the finer months for auld times sake.

Dusty87

From Offaly,
fish for trout on the fly in season and then in July/august i change to mostly perch, roach and bream. In the winter i change to pike. Dont get out as much as id like though anymore

Birroc

ironbluedun wrote: »

wheres all the lads from the west?

North Galway - Pike City!

Why is my province spelt wrong in this poll?

maigheo

salmon and sea trout on the moy

fontanalis

maigheo wrote: »

salmon and sea trout on the moy

How are the sea trout numbers on the west now? Up, down, no change etc

maigheo

fontanalis wrote: »

How are the sea trout numbers on the west now?

it was quite good until 2007. past two years have been poor but you will still get the odd week here and there. hopefully they will be back this year.

Everett

lienster sea

bayliner

athlone... trout and pike

snow ghost

Mayo - mostly sea and game. Will be trying for pike this winter as well.

DryFlyFishing

Game west and south
Sea south
pike west

Bullmastiff

Leinster, coarse, & sea when I can.

bitemybanger

Mainly pike with some coarse and fly for both pike and trout mixed in there too but will try anything.
Go out for the macks every year too.

aidanf

Did a good bit of fishing (sea and trout) when growing up in Wexford. Moved to Sligo about 3 years ago but just got started fishing up here this year. Do a bit of sea fishing and I've started fly fishing around some of the small lakes up here. Still haven't managed to catch a trout on the fly - hoping to catch one before the end of the season. I'm also planning on trying to fish for pike this winter.

stevecrow74

west - sea (home)
east - sea
south - sea
north - sea
(i dont like catching tiddlers in rivers & lakes) :eek:

TimMac

West Cork, Game & Sea fishing.

Auldloon

West Clare but I live in Scotland at the moment.
Fly fish for mainly trout.

invicta

south kerry, all game fishing, dont mind catching small fish!!!!!

Daroxtar

Living in Meath but from Sligo. Trout fisherman, 50/50 split between the boyne and tributaries and the rainbow fisheries when i'm in meath. Mostly Lough Talt, Arrow and the Moy over west.

bayliner

from athlone, fish lough ree regularly trout and pike, inny now and then, lough mask (usually once a year), spent most of my youth fishing twyford lough in baylin where i grew up, good course fishing tench up to 7lb 8oz pike to 22lb 7oz

blackstairsboy

Seatrout on the Slaney in Wexford. Also some brown trout in late spring and salmon when opened (which is this year:D). But mostly the seatrout as there is nothing else like it.

madred006

Living in Laois and fly fish only on the barrow, not great but gets me out lol.