The Piscari-Fly team are back with their latest newsletter with news of what’s going on around the country:
The River Nore
Peter was out on the River Nore twice in the last week doing a bit of coaching and fishing: Rivers are extremely low for this time of the year, and it’s also gone back to being quite cold, that Easterly cool breeze is back there. So fishing is mixed enough, we did manage some decent trout once we went around bends and got in out of the wind.
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I did see some hawthorns coming off, some large dark olives. I even saw yellow May coming off at some stage on Monday. We got some half decent fish on both days, but it’s just not there yet, definitely some progression. If we had some warm rain coming in, hopefully soon enough, well, that will bring on the rivers for fishing. But yeah, the River Nore is definitely worth a visit. Call into us here for your day tickets, gear or location ideas on where to fish.
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A Day on The Avonmore River
Mark was out over the weekend with a Journalist from the USA who was visiting Ireland and wanted to fish this beautiful river for a day. To get a taste of pure wild trout fishing in the Wicklow Hills. They accessed some remote fishing deep down in the Avonmore system. Levels were low, like most places across the country currently. But this made the river more accessible in terms of beats. They focused on the Dry-dropper method, which proved to be best on the day. Fishing various Caddis style nymphs & perdigones under an Indicator Klinkhammer. Fish were found high in the runs and side slacks which was great to see this time of year. With his guest catching 9 beautiful conditioned brown trout and some other small fish. The biggest of the day was on a dry fly, after a beautiful strike and play to the net. A mixture of sunshine and rain on the day was a true Irish day’s experience on the river. But after plenty of laughter, exploring the river banks amongst woodland and having fun, he left with plenty of memories from his day out with Mark on the Avonmore.
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Fishing the Midlands
This week I made the most of the unseasonably fine weather, concentrating on the local Little Brosna and it’s trout fishing. It was certainly bizarre to be throwing a long leader and a dry fly upstream in the orange glow of sunset and not a leaf on a tree! There was no major hatch to speak of but enough trout were looking up to make it worthwhile, certainly not the most effective method but definitely the most fun.
As the weather broke over the weekend, I had a go at streamer fishing for trout on the Shannon. It was surprisingly enjoyable, as I fished the edges of currents and dangled the streamer behind big rocks, I felt like I was back in central Finland. In hindsight I should have fished a smaller streamer but the reality was a pike was a more likely result. Sure enough it wasn’t too long before a big green head inhaled the streamer right on the surface. Pike will move into surprisingly fast water when they are hunting actively. As I waded back to shore I saw a good trout send some roach flying, unfortunately he didn’t respond to my streamer despite covering him from several different angles.
In other news, I will be attending the Irish Spring Angling Fair in Ardaire Springs on the 3rd and 4th of May. I’ll be bringing the guide boat along and look forward to talking to everyone interested in pike fly fishing.
Over the last week I was also delighted to be accepted onto the A.Jensen Fly-Fishing Pro-Team and look forward to working with them in the future.
Watershed Fly Fishing is a full-time professional guiding service specialising in pike fly fishing, operating from Banagher, Co. Offaly. In season, we also guide for trout on the Shannon tributaries. Get in touch to make your own memories at 085 7386944 or www.watershedflyfishing.ie
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