Declan Gibbons says that as anglers made their last casts on Lough Corrib for the last week of the season it was a week of mixed fortunes with variable weather conditions and rising lake levels. Starting off in the Cornamona area Tom Doc Sullivan (087-6113933) guided Leonard Geoghegan and John O’Reilly from Tullamore and Edenderry on Tuesday last, landing
3 trout on wet fly – best fish 2lbs. Tom himself fished on Wednesday last and had 2 fish with the best fish 3lbs. Peter Curran fished on Friday last and had 1 fish for his day’s fishing for 3lbs. Staying in the Cornamona area John Somerville and his mother Kathy Mannion enjoyed a good day’s fishing on Friday to end off the 2106 season, landing 3 trout to the boat with the best fish caught by John weighing 3.6lbs on a Gorgeous George using a di 3 line; Kathy caught her fish on a Green Peter Muddler pattern. All 3 fish were sportingly released back into Lough Corrib for spawning over the winter months ahead.
In the Oughterard area Gerry Molloy (087-9190673) reports that visiting UK angler Phillip enjoyed a week’s fishing mixed with touring Connemara and landed 6 fish for his efforts trolling and wet fly fishing with the best fish being 4.75lbs and all 6 fish were sportingly released. Also in the Oughterard area Eamon Molloy had 1 trout of 3lbs to round off his season, and Harold O’Toole and Kevin Molloy had a fish each to round off their seasons fishing with the two fish around the 1.75lbs mark.
Also in the Oughterard area Deirdre Forde at Camillaun Lodge says “the final week of September saw out the last of the trout season on Lough Corrib with honeymooners Leonie and Bjorn Koehler from Germany having a fantastic day on Lough Corrib. They caught a beautiful 3lbs trout, a very large pike and 14 perch! All returned except the trout, which I am glad to say was a male and I cooked it for their dinner- Lake to plate in 6 hours!”
Larry McCarthy from Corrib View Lodge (www.corribangling.com) says the weather has been anything but kind for the last week of the season. Wet and windy but we still managed a few trout at Corrib View Lodge. On Tuesday evening Larry and Frank fished together and had 3 nice trout to dry sedge patterns. On Wednesday Larry caught and returned 2 nice trout to 2lbs on wet fly. Finally on Friday the whole gang from Corrib View had a great fry up and last cast with staff and angling friends. No fish reported but lots of stories of good lumps lost.
That rounds off the season on Corrib and Mask. Many thanks from me to the many regular contributors to reports, but particularly to my colleagues Declan Gibbons and Ronan Cusack, without whom these reports would be a lot sparser.
