Connacht Area Thread

I herd they where... Any news on mayfly in any for the rivers? Not been up to local river in a week, But hopefully from a trout perspective we'l have a good bit of dry weather as the river is awful high atm..

decdon

So on which side does lough Ree posts go on.....!!!!!
This therad or the Leinster one?

niallon

decdon wrote: »

So on which side does lough Ree posts go on.....!!!!!
This therad or the Leinster one?

Same problem as Sheelin...there's more of the lake in Leinster and it sits in two Leinster provinces enough to put it into the Leinster thread? Unless there's any objections

sniper83

Any fish on the clare yet?

coolhandspan

plan on fishing lower corrib this week end..... i will update with any results good or bad. any one heard anything... lol loads of questions ion this thread no answers yet....:D:D:D

Corrib fishing well. Plenty caught today in Oughterard competition despite torrential rain and wind. I fished for a couple of hours yesterday evening and had 3 fish for about 6lbs (all released). Lads dapping in boat beside me were cleaning up. Not sure how lower lake is fishing.

Mayfly are definitely up in the Oughterard area and fish are taking them on the surface but there are still plenty of Olives hatching too.

I was fishing yesterday and was dapping mostly. Caught one small fish and missed quite a few others. Heard similar reports of fish stripping the flies without being hooked but also plenty of fish being caught too.

rpmcmurphy

Anyone on lough arrow yet? Any fly up?

Took home my first keeper of the year from Corrib last night. Was stuffed full of what looked like hog louse, fresh water shrimp or something like that and some Mayfly. Was surprised it appeared to still be feeding off the bottom with so many mayfly about but it obviously looked up at some point to take my flies.

Caribs wrote: »

Took home my first keeper of the year from Corrib last night. Was stuffed full of what looked like hog louse, fresh water shrimp or something like that and some Mayfly. Was surprised it appeared to still be feeding off the bottom with so many mayfly about but it obviously looked up at some point to take my flies.

It's Asellus, and not the first report I've heard of that recently. Might be why we're not seeing too many fish at the surface... and why the buzzer men have been doing so well.

Zzippy wrote: »

It's Asellus, and not the first report I've heard of that recently. Might be why we're not seeing too many fish at the surface... and why the buzzer men have been doing so well.

Thanks Zzippy - are the Asellus purely on the bottom or do they swim up in the layers?

Stick close to the bottom as far as I know

coolhandspan

Okay ... fished lower corrib today.. saw one natural mayfly on lake.. lol... big wave through channels. Fished team of two Partridge wet mayflys on fluorocarbon. Caught three fish to approx 5lbs.. kept one.. no sign of any fly life on water... only saw one other boat on lower lake.

Any sign of flies on the Clare?

coolhandspan wrote: »

Okay ... fished lower corrib today.. saw one natural mayfly on lake.. lol... big wave through channels. Fished team of two Partridge wet mayflys on fluorocarbon. Caught three fish to approx 5lbs.. kept one.. no sign of any fly life on water... only saw one other boat on lower lake.

The lower lakes doesn't really get a big mayfly hatch - mayflies like sandy/silt bottom, while the lower lake is dominated by weedy bottom and gets big hatches of olives and buzzers. Glad you got a few anyway!

patspost

Mayfly up on the mask since friday.

Mask fishing good on Sat, lot of fish about, mostly small but nice to bend the rod.
Lot of boats out near saints on sat
Good to see fisheries inspector checking fish sizes for those that kept a fish or too.
Caught 1 on Dap with artificial may fly.

Any salmon in the connemara rivers yet?

Sure are from the last few weeks, But nothing now because of the mini drought were having, We need some rain to create a flood then we should be in!.. Delphi was doing ok, Hopefully We'l get a decent flood!

Great to here,catch or just see?

ClifdenAngler wrote: »

Great to here,catch or just see?

I don't get what your saying there! If your saying did I catch anything no but I've few friends that did fish a while go on some of the Connemara rivers, but if your saying about going now fishing don't it's a waste of money but like there's a tiny chance of getting a fish..

thefisherbuy wrote: »

I don't get what your saying there! If your saying did I catch anything no but I've few friends that did fish a while go on some of the Connemara rivers, but if your saying about going now fishing don't it's a waste of money but like there's a tiny chance of getting a fish..

Sorry I have problems with spelling :') I meant to say Great to hear, did you catch any or see them rising

just to clear things up

yeah I was talking to a man today in the tackle shop and he got 3 salmon on lough inagh a few weeks back after a down pour so ill wait for a bit of rain no doubt we'll get some soon anyway ðŸ˜‚

Zzippy wrote: »

Stick close to the bottom as far as I know

@Zippy, took home a fish yesterday caught in Oughterard Bay area. Checked the stomach contents and was stuffed with the Asellus again. Couldn't see any sign of anything else it was feeding on. Came to a dry daddy long legs so obviously looked up at least once but was surprised to see it as stuffed as it was.

Spring salmon starting to make the move in clifden area seen a few at the bridge today about 11 id say big huge things ill be digging worms tomorrow!

ClifdenAngler wrote: »

Spring salmon starting to make the move in clifden area seen a few at the bridge today about 11 id say big huge things ill be digging worms tomorrow!

Where did you see them Delphi? I herd that the Connemara fisherys are getting rain so that's pretty good, the grilse are starting to make a run now! Hopefully we'l get a nice bit a rain over the weekend

thefisherbuy wrote: »

Where did you see them Delphi? I herd that the Connemara fisherys are getting rain so that's pretty good, the grilse are starting to make a run now! Hopefully we'l get a nice bit a rain over the weekend

I seen them at the waterloo bridge just before clifden the river would be the Owen glin. I got a 9lb 8oz salmon the next day