Eire Bass guide, Richie Ryan, hasn’t written a report in a while, fortunately he’s penned a recent diary entry. Check out his report below…
My bass fishing on the fly kicked off in May this year when I had the usual suspects on board Sea Hawk, namely Kevin Mc Loughlin and Dr. Jacques Bronkhorst. I had an inkling there was a bass shoal forming outside Cork Harbour waiting to head our direction. What luck to find a massive shoal clearly visible on the sonar but also swimming nonchalantly under the boat. Jacques looked at me astonished as we were both amazed at what was a most remarkable and rare event. Double figure fish mixed in with bass of all sizes. A quick change from pollack flies to bass flies started what was to be a frenetic hour of pure magical synchronised fly fishing. Jacques was to send a text later that evening to say it was one of the best days fly fishing of his lifetime, a serious compliment I can assure you. Almost 30 bass were caught and released on that red letter day!
A few clients managed to eke out a few more bass on the fly at that mark before they moved on, the last being my great friend Dr. Shane Flood, his first ever on the fly.
May was my best start to pollack on the fly season ever. A nice settled spell of weather encouraged the bigger fish to move in to shallower water where we could target them on the fly. An Irish woman bought a birthday voucher for her Italian husband to go fishing with me. An extra request was could I bring her daughter Alessia along also. To say she aced the fly fishing is a…As can be seen from the photograph Alessia is a natural. She had a competition to see who would catch the most fish, we lost count, always a great sign!
Go Fishing
Eire Bass – Richie Ryan
Saltwater fly fishing Guide.
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