Lough Corrib Current Dominant Fly Hatch & Fly Fishing Conditions?

DryFlyFishing

Looking for daily current updates on the condition of dominant fly hatches on Lough Corrib for 2010 .

What type of fly?

Amount of Fly?

What date were you on the lake this year?

How many rises did you see, or get to your fly?

Where is the hatch on the lake?

Temperature?

Wind conditions ( Direction and strength)?

Your method used? Dry or wet?

How many fish caught and average size?

Regards,

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thirtypence

well lads, any recent reports from the corrib? im fishing it this thursday to sunday? winds are supposed to turn westerly by friday, will that help? will the mayfly be about? launching from Oughterard, what are the good spots around there?

Zzippy

Bring extra layers, its bloody freezing. Cold northerly winds forecast for the week. Good numbers of mayfly and olives hatching but not much action at the surface with the cold wind. Trout taking buzzers and mayfly nymphs. Thats from talking to one of the top guides this evening. Had good catches today and yesterday.
Was out on the lake myself yesterday evening and the water was still bloody cold for the time of year. Gave up after a couple of hours, was frozen!

Plenty of good fishing around Oughterard, lots of good shallows out around the islands. Inishanbo and the islands and shallows just south and east of there are favourite spots of mine

thirtypence

thanks for the replies
what areas of the lake are good for trolling? presume rapalas are used?
does the boat have to be anchored when fishing the nypmh

ironbluedun

thirtypence wrote: »

well lads, any recent reports from the corrib? im fishing it this thursday to sunday? winds are supposed to turn westerly by friday, will that help? will the mayfly be about? launching from Oughterard, what are the good spots around there?

The westerly winds should defiantly help, but I think they are to veer north again over the weekend, then turn south westerly sometime next week at that stage conditions should be good.
some people anchor when nymphing and some don’t (bring one just in case), i am not a huge fan of them on larger loughs i must admit. I think it depends upon the wind and weather conditions on the day in question and of course the type of water your are fishing, Best of luck, I will be out there myself soon.

thirtypence

can anyone recommend 3 wet flies and sizes that they use on the corrib this time of year? also am i better going with epoxy buzzers or mayfly nymph?

ironbluedun

thirtypence....there are legions of wet mayfly patterns out there at the moment...you will have no problem picking up some in the tackle shop.....if fishing nymph this is a different style of fishing and i would fish weighted mayfly nymphs deep in calm-ish water....you can fish a team of three flies and therefore you can mix in a grey or olive buzzer pupa on the cast with the mayfly nymphs..but when nymph fishing fish the flies dead slow and erratically....try to avoid a fluent retrieve.....

really to simplify you have three options, under three headings,

1 - WET. traditional wet fly in a rolling wave - golden olive bumble, various greendrakes, kilkenny mayfly, octopus etc etc there are hundreds of wet patterns in size 10 and 12. i would not bother with bigger than 10, but that is a personal choice.
2 - DRY. dry fly on the surface in calmer water - again plenty of choice but i would look for grey wulf, moseley mayfly, red humpys etc again size 10 or 12 but 12 might be better.
3 - SUNK. nymph tactics as described above.

Really the tactics that you deploy depend upon,
1 - weather conditions on the day.
2- what natural flies are on the water.
3 - what the fish are doing (if no fish at the surface then go down to them and use nymphs, if you see fish rising fish wets or dry's where appropriate)

avoid using traditional style hackled/bumble wet flies in calm conditions, they are less effective in calm conditions, but on that lough more often than not you will get wind and a breeze.
when i go fishing i bring two rods one for surface fishing (Dry) and one for going down and fishing sub-surface (wet and sunk)
hope this helps.....tight lines.....

Paparazzo

A few warm days this week, anyone down on Corrib? I'm heading down on saturday to fish the north shore for a week
I'll probably be deep trolling, so sunny calm weather would be nice, but like to vairy it a bit. So I'll be fly fishing some of the time too, so is there much fish taking flys the last few days?

DryFlyFishing

Paparazzo wrote: »

A few warm days this week, anyone down on Corrib? I'm heading down on saturday to fish the north shore for a week
I'll probably be deep trolling, so sunny calm weather would be nice, but like to vairy it a bit. So I'll be fly fishing some of the time too, so is there much fish taking flys the last few days?

how did you get on, on the corrib in the past week?

ironbluedun

fishing corrib meself tomorrow, weather doesnt look too bad to swim the auld flies.............

Zzippy

Corrib fished its head off this week, we had 16 to the boat on Tuesday, spoke to a guide yesterday evening who had 14 to 4lbs on dries to his boat, another boat had 12, all over the limit (all returned anyway). We fished pike today and had 10 to 15lbs on fly.
Still small hatches of mayfly coming off, as well as golden olives, sedges and buzzers. Couldn't stay to fish dry buzzer tonight, conditions would have been perfect.

gomaith2010

They use sprat there too. I was over 2 months ago and talked to an angler who had caught a huge salmon with one.

stuuu

cheers for info lads

Paparazzo

DryFlyFishing wrote: »

how did you get on, on the corrib in the past week?

I did deep trolling, only got a small one. Funny, northerly breeze was blowing and most locals don't even bother going out in it cos it's normally so bad, but plenty of fish caught in the islands to the south west of Innisdawee on the dap. I'm not really interested in dapping, so continued deep trolling for big ferrox, but no luck.
Downloaded the Corrib Charts onto my car GPS, if anyone is afraid to venture into areas they don't know but would like to, get the charts, they're amazing! Did a few trolls along the north shore up to Ashford, every shallow is marked with amazing accuracy.

ironbluedun

Was on corrib a few times in May, it was good at times and patchy others...good hatches of mayfly in some areas..but localised..we normally fished around the islands, malachys, Inishool, Inishshanboe, Urkan etc etc...have to wait now until the sedges come up then give it another lash for a few days.....

Paparazzo

I just noticed there's 2 Innisdawee islands on Corrib!
Here was good on the mayfly last week, around these islands

bribren2001

ironbluedun wrote: »

Was on corrib a few times in May, it was good at times and patchy others...good hatches of mayfly in some areas..but localised..we normally fished around the islands, malachys, Inishool, Inishshanboe, Urkan etc etc...have to wait now until the sedges come up then give it another lash for a few days.....

How did the Corrib treat you last weekend?

ironbluedun

bribren2001 wrote: »

How did the Corrib treat you last weekend?

not great to be honest...where i was it was patchy only got a couple of small ones around the 1lb mark..rose a good few to dries but they were only messing not really taking.....i saw a few others getting fish on the dap but i wasnt dapping i was mainly using dries......as usual fishing is always great before you arrive and after you leave.............

bribren2001

ironbluedun wrote: »

as usual fishing is always great before you arrive and after you leave.............

hahahah yeah nicely put. Ah sher they will be there for ya the next time out!

ironbluedun

bribren2001 wrote: »

hahahah yeah nicely put. Ah sher they will be there for ya the next time out!

hopefully...........;)

coolhandspan

for all early season anglers , please remember most salmon caught on opening day are kelts headed back out to sea. we call them slat salmon. often caught 5 or 6 in a day trolling for brown trout. tight lines

Yossarian86

Just wondering does anyone know anything about boat rental in Cong? And how fly fishing for trout is regulated on the river in Cong? Cheers

coolhandspan

sorry guy, not really sure about cong. you going down for duckfly??

Yossarian86

No; I'm just trying to get organised for the mayfly as early as possible. I'm fairly novice to that side of the lake. I think the hatch might be a bit later this year (on account of winter's determination to hang around for the craic) but like I said, I'm fairly novice to that area. I'm really picking Cong/Clonbur as I'd like to find a nice island to camp on, so boat rental is a big thing for me.

coolhandspan

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Dont know if that link is any use guy.........?

Anyone going down for duckfly, early season....?

keppler

coolhandspan wrote: »

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Dont know if that link is any use guy.........?

Anyone going down for duckfly, early season....?

yip:)
normally hit it around mid march... can be good if you hit it on the right day

coolhandspan

What flies do you use guy????? traditional pennells etc , or new slimline buzzers, would appreciate any general advice.
do you mix wets with buzzers???? thanks :rolleyes::rolleyes:

keppler

coolhandspan wrote: »

What flies do you use guy????? traditional pennells etc , or new slimline buzzers, would appreciate any general advice.
do you mix wets with buzzers???? thanks :rolleyes::rolleyes:

I would generally use small dark wets like bibio's, black pennell, blae and black, and other variant type flies id tie up myself.
Yes buzzers and small emerger type flies are very good also but I have never mixed them with traditional wets...........how would that work while pulling the wet flies through a rolling wave? Buzzers should be retrieved very slowly no?

coolhandspan

thanks for reply , thought bibio could be used on top dropper, like washing line method for rainbows??:rolleyes:

what size wets you use, 12s?
Wets more productive than buzzers when hatch is on ???
thanks

keppler

coolhandspan wrote: »

thanks for reply , thought bibio could be used on top dropper, like washing line method for rainbows??:rolleyes:

what size wets you use, 12s?
Wets more productive than buzzers when hatch is on ???
thanks

I think you can leave that behind for the stockies man lol.

Look the thing to remember is you're going to be fishing a huge lough in the west of ireland.....forget about size of hooks if you've never been there before? The most important thing is to know the area and places where fish hang out and feed (mostly the shallows).................then if confident about this, select a fly...........if theres a breeze with good ripple/wave select wets (no bigger than size 10) if its flat calm select buzzers/emergers. If nothing takes on a floating line consider using inter/full sinking. Also if conditions are right, you could try a small dark dry duckfly (something like a size 14 dark body & hackle with white wings).

My best advice to you is to stick to drifting around islands and use the flies/methods mentioned and you should pull out a few if the fish are feeding

Also, keep me in mind, if you're looking for a boating partner. Come the end of March I will be heading down there fairly regularly and often i end up fishin it by mmyself anyway.

ironbluedun

keppler wrote: »

I think you can leave that behind for the stockies man lol.

Look the thing to remember is you're going to be fishing a huge lough in the west of ireland.....forget about size of hooks if you've never been there before? The most important thing is to know the area and places where fish hang out and feed (mostly the shallows).................then if confident about this, select a fly...........if theres a breeze with good ripple/wave select wets (no bigger than size 10) if its flat calm select buzzers/emergers. If nothing takes on a floating line consider using inter/full sinking. Also if conditions are right, you could try a small dark dry duckfly (something like a size 14 dark body & hackle with white wings).

My best advice to you is to stick to drifting around islands and use the flies/methods mentioned and you should pull out a few if the fish are feeding

Also, keep me in mind, if you're looking for a boating partner. Come the end of March I will be heading down there fairly regularly and often i end up fishin it by mmyself anyway.

good advice there, early in the season you could also try small hares ear or march brown for trout feeding on shrimps and louse.

coolhandspan

thanks guy, have a boat me self on lower lake, good advice there.

Yossarian86

coolhandspan wrote: »

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Dont know if that link is any use guy.........?

Anyone going down for duckfly, early season....?

It is; cheers man. Tight lines.

Corr Cam

Any body catch anything on opening day?

coolhandspan

well lads any fly life down there yet, heard a few are now being caught trolling, anyone see duckfly yet???????????:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

experimenter

Never fished a Lough before, maybe this summer if I get an opportunity..

viper123

Fished Sunday 20th Feb for the afternoon, was freezing cold and virtually totally lifeless. Had one trout of about 1.5lbs on a small black buzzer fished well down in the water.

ironbluedun

coolhandspan wrote: »

well lads any fly life down there yet, heard a few are now being caught trolling, anyone see duckfly yet???????????:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

no duckfly yet wait until around 20 of March.

coolhandspan

lake is still freezing, no sign of any fly life??????????? anyone got any ideas

Zzippy

coolhandspan wrote: »

lake is still freezing, no sign of any fly life??????????? anyone got any ideas

Wait til it warms up?

Water temp was only 6.4C last Thursday when I was fishing, still quite cold. Give it a week or two and we should start seeing good duckfly hatches, there are a few hatching already but in v small numbers...

Yossarian86

I am heading out from Cong in a few days. Anyone have any advice on methods/flies? Can I ask, and forgive my ignorance, how exactly a buzzer or emerger should be fished? Any help - much appreciated.

Caribs

Not an expert on buzzers but as I understand it you normally fish a team (depending on your experience and casting ability) of 3 to 4 buzzers on around 12-20ft of leader with about 4 feet between the buzzers. Normally the heaviest buzzer is fished on the point to help the leader get down and a bit of mud will help it sink and reduce the shine on the leader.

You fish them on a floating line and cast straight out if you are fishing from a boat. You don't retrieve the line as such, just bring in any slack to keep in contact with the buzzers as you drift. The theory of the floating line is that the end of the floating line will act as a strike indicator so when you see it move you know one of the buzzers has been taken.

I think and this is where I stand to be corrected that you don't actually strike when you see the take, I think you continue to retrieve slowly and almost lift into the fish rather than a strike as you'd do for a wet or dry fly.

That's the limit of my knowledge I'm afraid...tight lines..!!

Yossarian86

@Caribs. Thanks, I really appreciate that. It's something similar to how I was fishing them but I wasn't 100% certain. That's killer advice; thank you. Was on the upper lake yesterday. I didn't take a temperature but it was still quite cold. There's a good olive hatch, though, with some feeding off the top. Tight Lines.

thirtypence

lads, im heading to fish the corrib on thursday for 3 days.....weather is to be showery, wind from the north west and cool, are these conditons poor?

any tips / tricks appreciated!?

thanks

Zzippy

thirtypence wrote: »

lads, im heading to fish the corrib on thursday for 3 days.....weather is to be showery, wind from the north west and cool, are these conditons poor?

any tips / tricks appreciated!?

thanks

Before the change in weather the fish were on dries, but with the conditions this week and the cooler weather, wetfly is prob your best bet. Showery weather is fine, its the wind direction I'd be more concerned about, but its better than north or east, so you should still get fish.

keppler

thirtypence wrote: »

lads, im heading to fish the corrib on thursday for 3 days.....weather is to be showery, wind from the north west and cool, are these conditons poor?

any tips / tricks appreciated!?

thanks

Its a big lake lol, any idea of where you will be fishing out of?
I just fished it on sat and sun and the fish are gorging on mayfly!
To be honest, I wouldn't worry about the wind direction as the water is fairly warm now (it might affect the fishing late in the evening but thats about it).
If the wind is up and there's a good roll on the water try fishing a team of three wets if the wind is low try the dries (wulff patterns were working well this weekend but if you ask me the roll-over is a better pattern if conditions are right for it)
Your biggest enemy is the sun if its out strong you'll find it tough to rise a fish.
btw.... I would seriously recommend a cast consisting of mainly golden olive flies.....its all that seemed to work for me at the weekend and they brought up some nice size fish too...tightlines

coolhandspan

just be careful guy, wind is pretty strong. straight north wind can cause fish to go deeper. best of luck

Caribs

As Keppler says it's certainly a big lake so I'll only speak for Oughterard area on the fishing. According to people I've spoken to and personal experience the fish are certainly feeding on the mayfly now with dapping naturals along with teams of wet flies (Mayfly patterns) working quite well.

Wind is due to continue swinging around to the north over the coming days which might drive the fish lower but if you find a nice sheltered bay you never know your luck!

As a matter of interest - anyone catching trout marked by lamprey eels?

Fenners99

Hi kellper, I've fished it yesterday and I'm heading out again today. Winds are high nut fishable. I'm coming out of the Bradford side. We had 12 fish yesterday, lost a big one over 3pm. O found humpies and green wolf, Grey wolf the best on dry fly.
Let u no how today goes. Winds are changing north Tomo n Friday, not looking good tho?

ironbluedun

Fenners99 wrote: »

Hi kellper, I've fished it yesterday and I'm heading out again today. Winds are high nut fishable. I'm coming out of the Bradford side. We had 12 fish yesterday, lost a big one over 3pm. O found humpies and green wolf, Grey wolf the best on dry fly.
Let u no how today goes. Winds are changing north Tomo n Friday, not looking good tho?

looks like the strong gusty winds of late will ease a bit over the coming days, but veer north to north west, the north wind might not be too bad as long as its not too cold, or sunny, accuweather say the winds will then veer west next week, that wont be too bad at all, hopefully blowing in clouds from the atlantic.
i will be on it in the coming days for a throw of the fleeees.....

Fenners99

Wind was stronger today from d west. Hard work! Still rose 25 fish, landing 6. Most of them rolling or snapping at the fly! Nothing major reported from the lake, ones and twos.:) Squaky swirling g wind with showers... Just lovely;-)