Declan Gibbons reports on an upturn in fishing on Corrib over the last week with anglers everywhere reporting better fishing.
Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge, Glencorrib (087-9135222, www.corribangling.com) reports a much improved week on Lough Corrib, with plenty of good fish on dry sedge patterns. Best were in the Greenfields and Inishanbo areas of the lough. There were notable catches for visiting angler Tom Chamberlain from Wales, who had several trout over three days fishing with Larry, two of the trout being Corrib beauties over 3lbs. Ferdinand Rodrigues had two days guided by Larry and had trout to 3lbs on reed smut and small dry sedges. Frank Reilly while guiding for Corrib View Lodge with French angler Lauren Pouillaud caught a lovely trout over 4lbs. Hopefully with some light winds forecast the remainder of the season will be good.
Recently The Oughterard Anglers and Boatman’s Association hosted the Kevin McQuinn Cup (Junior Competition) which saw Sean Molloy of Baurisheen take 1st place with one trout for 1.44kg. Second place went to Shane Joyce, Glann with a trout of 1.00kg and in third place was Liam Ferguson with a trout weighing 0.96kg.
Staying in the Oughterard area Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (091-552550) reports good fishing during the week gone by with most of the action being had on Daphnia-feeding fish in the deeps. On Monday Eddie Rowe from Dublin had 2 trout on wets, while on Thursday visiting UK angler Phil Potts had an excellent day’s fishing, landing 7 trout for his visit. On Friday last Mallow angler Neil Glavin had 3 trout for his trip to Lough Corrib. Regular visitor to Lough Corrib John Fitzgerald from Shannon had 3 fish for his day’s fishing and fellow Shannon angler Glen O’Connell had 3 fish for a day during the week and on Saturday last he had 1 trout.
Ted Wherry of Mayfly Lodge, Ballynalty Bay (tel. 087 4305957) reported 2 guests at Mayfly Lodge had great fishing over 2 days each on small sedges; Paedar McAvinnney with 8 fish (best 4lbs) and Jason James with 9 fish (best 3.5lbs). Ted also enjoyed some good fishing himself, as evident from the photo below.
