Trolling for brown trout

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How's it going for the trollers among us???
Hard to get out in that cold east wind.
Have had a bit of luck in the last week on lough ree.
Had 8 fish in total up to 2.5 lbs
One pattern we have noticed is that most if not all the fish came to one lure, the rapala 7cm floater in blue spotted minnow colour.

huntsman77

Out on ree sat nothing I was putting it down to the cold maybe its just me great to get out all the same be nice to great one keep the interest up :-)

viper123

I'm going to try for some Ferox this weekend on the corrib, hopefully the weather will have picked up by then. I'll post up a report next week..

bayliner

i wasnt out since march 1st!! but heading out on sunday, and a few pints in the coosan cottages after:D, as i am off on monday!! .... heard rapalas were working best alright, but didnt get any colours..... seeing as the water levels are down i thought the tazzies would be working?.... no doubt will try a hape o different lures :rolleyes:

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bayliner wrote: »

i wasnt out since march 1st!! but heading out on sunday, and a few pints in the coosan cottages after:D, as i am off on monday!! .... heard rapalas were working best alright, but didnt get any colours..... seeing as the water levels are down i thought the tazzies would be working?.... no doubt will try a hape o different lures :rolleyes:

Tazzies were useless yesterday
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The trout arnt fully on the feed yet...they seem to be just snapping at the lures...missed a lot of takes too...and the ones we hooked were either foul hooked or only barely lip hooked.

We fished the bollix out of the shoreline from manfred waleshes up to marks bay and the shoreline from winion point up to saints island a few times.
Hard going in the cold.
We were out on the lake before the Athlone anglers competition and we were the last off the lake...the carpark at coosan was empty when we got back.

StupidLikeAFox

That is a great thread title

Cienciano

Mate got a 10lb trout on Corrib, think it was last saturday

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Cienciano wrote: »

Mate got a 10lb trout on Corrib, think it was last saturday

Nice...what was he using???

Cienciano

Trolling with a rapala. Not sure where, but knowing him it was fecken well anywhere north west of Inchagoill

Calgary22

4lb trout on ennel blue tazzie done the job:D

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Anyone been out on the loughs in the lovely weather wee having?

Calgary22

been out on ennel 4 times since i got my last fish and not a thing trout wise got a couple of jack pike trolling up round the big island. ennel really is hit or miss but i still love it:D

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Calgary22 wrote: »

been out on ennel 4 times since i got my last fish and not a thing trout wise got a couple of jack pike trolling up round the big island. ennel really is hit or miss but i still love it:D

The Graveyard.

Calgary22

Ha for sure but i will still be out on sat:D

viper123

viper123 wrote: »

I'm going to try for some Ferox this weekend on the corrib, hopefully the weather will have picked up by then. I'll post up a report next week..

So much for that weekend's fishing, couldn't even tow the boat the wind was that bad...

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Calgary22 wrote: »

been out on ennel 4 times since i got my last fish and not a thing trout wise got a couple of jack pike trolling up round the big island. ennel really is hit or miss but i still love it:D

Are more of the trout not switching to a diet of insects now?

Calgary22

well ya usually can pick up a trout anytime of the year its just a luck game:D i don't follow the insect hatches so i cant tell you what ones are in i just go by my own journal i keep and i got trout in every month the season was open last year. and a couple of anglers i no got trout in the 5 lb weight on small deadbaits at the mouth of the river.