Peter Driver from Piscari-Fly gives an update on a great season ending session on the River Nore:
So I imagined when I got up this morning or maybe at some stage yesterday that with all the rain falling, that was it; there was no chance of a last cast on Monday. I didn’t get much chance to get out over the weekend, but a few customers were out and managed to pick up a few trout in very testing conditions.
But fishing was tough by all accounts so I kind of expected the chance of a last cast was gone. So got up this morning was tying flies all day and went to the post office at lunchtime to do our normal daily delivery of orders. I crossed over the river Nore on this journey and hey didn’t look too bad at all actually, if anything it looked like it had gone down a bit over the weekend. So raced back to the house, rang the wife and told her I was going fishing and headed down to Fennelly’s Weir in Ballyhick on the River Nore and as it turned out, the fishing was exceptional, is the best way to descibe it.
There I was, a fish on nearly every cast, hitting or getting it to the net. No massive big fish but really good quality trout for the whole evening, it was fantastic fishing. River was up a little bit, coloured, the stones were a bit clean and there wasn’t much rubbish in the river coming down. Obviously, it had gone through Saturday and Sunday. But what a way to finish the season; it has left a hunger in me now for the next 6 months. If only that rain had come a week ago, we could have had a cracking end to the season, but awesome to get a good session under my belt before the season closed, as I had lost a bit of heart at the back end of this season. The best nymph was the Golden Beaded Hare’s Ear with an orange tag and a 3.5mm bead with some lead in behind it to get it down.
That’s a wrap….. The end of the trout season for 2024, not one of my best seasons and all we can do now is clean down the gear and see what happens next season.
