A flyfisher looking for the angling experience of a lifetime might have his mind on the giant rainbow trout of New Zealand, the cultured brown trout of an English chalk stream or the huge runs of salmon in Norway or northern Russia. There is, however, something special available right here in our own land, in the form of hundreds of little known hill loughs that contain enormous numbers of free-rising, purely wild brown trout, most of which have never seen an angler in their lives. Much of this fishing is free and discovered only by hardy folks prepared to do a lot of groundwork and not a little hiking…
The Mayo News, 26/07/16. Read the full article ‘To the waters and the wild‘.
