Paddy Dunworth, flyfisher and guide from Adare tell us about his American visitors who he had over last week :
Lon Teter and his 14yr old daughter from New York are in Ireland for a short break and Lon takes his flyfishing gear everywhere. A man after my own heart, Lon loves the traditional cane rods and has reels of similar vintage to match. Both he and Nora were fishing with Orvis cane rods, Lon’s paired with a Hardy Perfect reel and Nora’s with a JW Young’s Beaudex made for Orvis. Conditions were not great but it was their last chance to fish since any fishing was out for the first 3 days of their stay. The Maigue at Adare was the only water I thought might be fishable, it was running too strong for wading further upstream. The water was clearing a little and the only hope was to fish any slack water off the still high river, we fished streamers on sink-tip lines. Lady luck struck and Nora bagged herself a nice brownie on a brown woolly-bugger.
Paddy Dunworth
Tel 069/68202 087/6525687
E-mail: [email protected]
