Dan O’Neill reports from the River Nore:
With the Nore on the way down and fish starting to rise to olives, I had a busy week of guiding and the first on the water was Dan McNally from the USA. Dan is a bass fisherman back home and he told me all about his fishing club and also a little about the bass competition scene in the USA, really interesting stuff and it was easy to tell that he was as enthusiastic and passionate about angling as I was!
We grabbed a couple of fly rods and made our way to the eel weir just down stream of the manor. Starting out with nymphs, we put on a 3mm grey heron fished under an indicator. Dan picked up the casting quite quickly and had an eye for where the fish may be, it wasn’t long before the indicator dipped to which Dan reacted with a sharp lift – our first Brown Trout was on! After putting on a great display the trout came to hand, a couple of pictures and away went the beautiful fish.
Dan had a couple more after the initial trout and we had discussions about different techniques and little secret tips on both of our styles of fishing. The grey heron nymph was by far the most successful today with some fish falling to olive pattern wet flies. Water level at the time of fishing was .80 with the temperature around 9°C, peak time seemed to be between 10am and 12pm for us.
For information on day tickets or memberships please call Dan on 0857652751 or email [email protected]
Dan O’Neill
Mount Juliet Estate.
Go fishing…
Mount Juliet House is set on a large estate, which offers private fishing on 2.5 miles of the middle to lower reaches of the River Nore. Mount Juliet Estate offers fishing of the highest quality, just a short stroll away from the Manor House. There is a fishing room on site in the Manor House for your convenience i.e. for storage and drying of fishing equipment. Mount Juliet Estate can also provide the necessary equipment on site if needed.
https://www.mountjuliet.ie/fishing-on-the-estate.html
