Peter Driver of Piscari Fly is back with his weekly roundup of the fishing scene on the Nore and beyond:

How’s the Fishing

The River Nore

Peter had a lovely evening fishing with Lindsay Simpson recently on the River Nore showing him some of our local spots. the 2 lads fished lower Dysart and got some really good quality fish on the nymphs. The river was up a bit and coloured but the fishing was pretty good. There was a really good stamp of fish on the move. Was lovely to spend an evening with Lindsay and chat fishing stuff.

Here’s a link to Lindsay’s youtube channel, check it out for some great footage and content.

​https://www.youtube.com/@lindsayiflyfish​

The Nore has been fishing exeptionally well over the week with that drop of fresh water that came into it. We are coming into the last few weeks of the season so fish tend to get more active getting ready for a hard long winter. Ricky Croke was on the Nore there recently and picked up this lovely lump of a trout on the Piscari-Fly Venator Rod 10ft 6′ 2weight one of the evenings down on the Nore.

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Keith Kearney was out on the Nore also and said it fished its socks off the other day. He fished near the town bridge the 2 pools and 3 runs below the bridge and then moved up river and fished the 2 weir walls at the swimming pool area. The 2 nymphs he found worked best were a Hends #6 PT and a Hends #39 PT with rubicon tails on both.

It’s great to see the river fishing so well at the moment and hopefully it will last till the end of the season. It is time now to make the most of what is left of the river season here. give us a shout here at Piscarifly for any information, flies or tackle you need to finish out your season in style.

Fishing The River Suir with the Piscari-Fly Venator

Lukasz Ryzs was out there recently on the River Suir and wrote up a few words on his experience of fishing our Venator Rod. Thanks a million for the feedback Lukasz really appreciate it. If you are looking looking for a superb nymphing rod then make sure and check out the Piscari-fly Venator 10 foot 6, 2 weight, you wont be disappointed.

Today was finally the day I tried my new nymphing rod from piscary-fly Venator. The 2 weight 10ft 6 perfectly paired with Redington zero reel with Soldarini nymphing line. Very light setup 15ft 0.16 leader 2ft sighter and 3ft 7x to a single nymph. I tried some of my new patterns, lately I like to use bigger nymphs (up to size12 , 3mm bead) I decided to visit my favourite spot on the Suir where I have seen few bigger trout before.

Evening session started around 7:30, and within an hour I had few handy trout in the net. I was delighted to see that the set up is working very well and the rod cast pretty good, even on long distance. Playing the average Suir trout (9/10inches) on Venator was very enjoyable. Very sensitive tip helps you detect takes you`d sometimes miss on the sighter. Finally, when I hooked into the bigger fish, I knew I was in for a proper rod test. Knowing I was using light tippet I intentionally played the fish hard to test what the rod is made of. Full arm stretch in the air, and the rod bend beautifully and the fish gets no chance to get into the weeds. 2lb trout was twice up in the air trying to shake off the fly. After taking few steps downstream the fish was in the net. Quick photo and safe release- new rod baptised with style! I enjoyed fishing Venator and surely will bring it again on the next outing. Tight lines!

TAFI All-Ireland Lakes on The Corrib this coming Saturday.

Mark and Roger hit the Corrib last weekend for a day, they are getting ready for the All-Ireland Lakes and Fishing was ok, conditions were flat calm with a slight breeze now and then as evening went on. They picked up some on dries and then on wets later in the evening. Daddy patterns and sedge patterns seemed to be working best for them. Tough enough but managed to get a few keepers all the same with Rodger picking up the best of the day in the last few drifts pulling wets.

Hopefully the fishing keeps improving before next weekend. The All-Ireland TAFI interprovincials are on next Saturday on the Corrib fishing out of Oughterard. We want to wish everyone the very best of luck and hopefully the lake fishes well for everybody on the day. If conditions are flat calm I would suggest that sedges would be at the fore of the cast fishing them dry on a light set up. If the wind comes during the day then some daddies and green peter sedges would be worth a cast on the pull. It all depends on the conditions. If the weather forecast stays as it currently is forecast then it should be a good days fishing. We will let you know on next weeks newsletter how it went.

If you need any fly patterns give us a shout here at piscarifly and we can help you out.

Results from Poland

The boys did very well in Poland, finished 8th overall in the Europeans. They had some very good sessions and were looking really strong after session 3. A tougher session 4 held them back a little. But a great effort by the lads and by all accounts they all really enjoyed the experience and did us very proud . Well done to all Team Ireland on a good solid at the Fips Mouche European Flyfishing Chapionship. Final results can be found here https://www.fips-mouche.com/euro/​

Masterclasses & Piscarifly Club

The final part of the eurodinking masterclass went up on the Club last week. In this session we are on the water putting the technique to the test. It is a super effective approach to catching fish and one worth having in your tool box for the rivers. One evening this week Peter will be hosting a live Question and Answer Flytying session for anyone that has any questions on the euronymphing or eurodinking masterclasses. Peter will announce the day midweek. Sign up now and don’t miss out.

Lots more masterclasses to follow on the club. Sign up at https://club.piscari-fly.com/

What’s coming

The launch of the Irish Spring Angling Fair 2025 is in October. Peter Driver, Tom Doc Sullivan and Jimmy Tyrell will be tying at the event down in Ardaire Springs, Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny. Make sure you come along on the day and check it out. Sunday October 20th from 10am. There will also be casting clinics with Jason O’Riordan and Maurice Cahill.

About us

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