ANOTHER LIFE: IT’S CLOSE ON 60 YEARS since Ethna’s father, Seamus MacManus of Westport, won the beautiful bronze shield now hanging on our wall – the first An Tostal trophy for trout angling on Lough Mask in Co Mayo in 1953. The exact weight of his fish seems forgotten, but it is fair to assume it came nowhere near the amazing 11kg of the monster ferox trout coaxed to the net last weekend from the depths of neighbouring Lough Corrib.
Irish Times, 02/06/12. Read the article ‘Why so many Irish trout species? It’s the lough of the draw‘.

Rising to a fly: how did trout first come into Ireland's rivers? Illustration: Michael Viney
Rising to a fly: how did trout first come into Ireland's rivers? Illustration: Michael Viney -copyright Irish Times