Marek Kozinski with a beautiful 86cm ferox trout from Lough Corrib, taken while fishing with guide Tomi Kurman, June 2014

Tropical conditions on Corrib means ferox fishing

The bright sunny conditions of the last week have morphed into a full-blown heatwave in Galway, with temperatures of 25 degrees over the last...

Bye bye Mayfly and hello Caenis on Lough Corrib

Fishery Inspector Kevin Crowley reports from Lough Corrib: Lough Corrib The mayfly is well and truly over on the western lakes, but this time of year...
Czech visitor Karel Sourek with a fine ferox trout he caught recently on his annual visit to Lough Corrib. Karel has caught ferox up to 25lbs on Corrib in the past, and makes a point of returning for a week every year. Like all his fish, this one was sportingly returned after a quick photograph.

Good trout fishing still reported on Corrib as mayfly hatches decline

After a fantastic mayfly season, Lough Corrib has seen the slow end of the main hatch over the last few days, with hatches diminishing...

Super mayfly fishing again on Corrib

Lough Corrib continued in fine form up to the weekend just gone, with mayfly hatching in great numbers, especially further south on the lake....

Hatches increasing on Corrib as anglers enjoy good sport

Craig McKirdy reports that there were good hatches of mayfly and olives over the last week, with the broken weather helping. In the Greenfields...
Cillian Tierney (13) from Oughterard, with a cracking trout of 6lbs plus that he caught on Lough Corrib, April 2014. the fish was taken on wet fly.

Corrib starting to fire as mayfly arrive with the olives

Things are really heating up on Corrib, with quite a few reports in this week. Olives have been hatching for the last 10 days...

Bright conditions hampered angling on Corrib but change in weather to bring on olive...

Frank Reilly reports that angling proved difficult over the week on Corrib, with fine weather and bright conditions giving the trout the upper hand....
Simon Tarpey with a cracking 5.25lbs Corrib trout, taken on a size 16 dry post hackle midge during the duckfly hatch, April 2014

Duckfly produced some great fish on Corrib, with olives starting to appear now

Frank Reilly reports that the last 2 weeks on Corrib have seen pretty good fishing during the good duckly hatches, although the duckfly is...

Good trout fishing reported from Loughs Corrib and Mask

Kevin Crowley  from the IFI office in Galway reports on Trout fishing on Loughs Corrib and Mask Lough Corrib Frank Reilly reports that there were good...

March of many weathers, as Jason finds out on the Corrib

Guide Jason O’Riordan of Game Fishing Ireland eventually got to Lough Corrib but the weather proved harsh. Nevertheless Jason did well.  He tells us: We...