March 17th marked the opening of the trout season on my local river, the Dodder. It’s where I caught my first fish many years ago and for that reason I’ve always been very fond of this little river. Well, that and the fact that it also offers some fantastic trout fishing on my doorstep, right in the heart of Dublin city.
I was joined on the opening day fellow Lurefish Ireland angler Sam and Stephen of Irishsportfishing.com. However we wouldn’t be fishing the fly this time, instead we would be using the kind of ultra light lure gear that we use for LRF (light rock fishing) and fishing both hard and soft plastics for the trout. We actually fished the soft plastics for the trout in a slightly different way this time and used ultra light 1/80 Oz Tungsten bead jig heads. This allowed us to fish the small soft plastics more like a fly I suppose, allowing them to sink slowly and come around in the current as we slowly worked them. It proved to be a very effective technique and accounted for a few decent fish over the weekend. Anyway I’ll let the photos do the taking and just say what a fantastically enjoyable weekends fishing.
April 9th
Although it’s very much been a case of the ones that got away recently. We’ve had plenty of follows on the lures, lost some cracking fish at the net but still managed to land a fish or two, on both lures and also on the dry fly.
Dave Fitzpatrick
Lurefish Ireland
