Dave Warburton and Tim Bradshaw made their annual trip to Ireland again this May. This was their sixth trip to Ireland to pleasure fish for coarse species in the Cavan lakelands. Dave comes over from Aberdeen, Scotland, while Tim travels all the way from Boston, USA. The pair have been lifelong friends, originally growing up as next-door neighbours in Sheffield, England. They stay at Lake View Cottage on Town Lake, Killeshandra, and do most of their fishing either at Town Lake or at Killykeen.
As we all know, the weather was cold for them this year, but they still managed to catch some decent fish. Here’s Tim’s summary of the trip:
I managed to catch five tench in two weeks. It was hard going, but I enjoyed every minute of it.
The best bream was caught on the first cast on a 7m pole with a light setup for rudd, a single maggot on an 18 fine-wire red hook. We hadn’t even put any bait in! It was very lucky and caught us off guard, really, so we didn’t weigh it, but it was probably 5-6 lb. I had put Dave in the ‘Best Tench Peg’ that day!
Dave did manage some bream on one of the days at Killykeen – caught in the feeder at fifty yards. Anyway, we are coming back again next year – we love the place!
We at fishinginireland.info look forward to next year’s report!
