John Ruby Best Overall Basket

Golden Boy “Ruby” wins ITFFA Inter-provincial Match on Melvin

The 2012 Irish Trout Fly Fishing Association Inter-provincial Match was held at Lough Melvin on Saturday 15th September 2012. Teams from Ulster, Munster, Leinster...

Evenings prove best for sonaghan trout on Lough Melvin

Monday 20th to Sunday 26th August 2012 Lough Melvin fished well this week for sonaghan with all drifts producing fish over the week. The...

Melvin hard work but songhan taking well for some

Lindsey Clarke reports: Lough Melvin was fairly quiet once again this week. There was little angling effort for salmon and I have no reports of...

5½lb trout for Tom Burn on Lough Melvin caught with a Daddy long-legs

Lindsey Clarke reports on Lough Melvin: 30th July to Aug 5th: There seems to have been little angling effort on the Lough this week. I...

Melvin trout fishing slow but Rossinver does well

10 June: The trout fishing was fairly slow this week on most of the lough. For the first four days of the week the...

Good fishing for Gillaroo and Sonaghan with mayfly hatching on Lough Melvin

Lough Melvin: The weather did a complete turn about this week and we went from decidedly cold conditions to sweltering heat and bright sun!...

Good hatches of flies but trout fishing very poor on Lough Melvin

April 23rd to 29th: Conditions on Lough Melvin were not very favourable this week with cold air temperatures, bright sunlight and variable winds. The...

Harsh conditions on Lough Melvin but forecast for rise in temp

Mon 23rd to Sun 29th April: Tough weather conditions made the salmon fishing very slow and I have only heard of one salmon being caught this...

Poor fishing on Melvin despite big Buzzer hatch

Conditions were fair on Melvin last week although air temperatures remained cold. The huge hatch of buzzers continued, but disappointingly, the trout did not...

Huge hatches of buzzers should attract trout on Lough Melvin

There were a few reports of good trout fishing for Sonaghan over the deeps. At present there are huge hatches of buzzers (larger than...