Good angling activity as the last days at Sheelin are fished

Lough Sheelin Angling Report By Brenda Montgomery, IFI October 3rd – October 12th 2016 'Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize...
Andrew Browne with his 3lbs wild trout caught at Plunketts Pt.

Trout fishing testing as temperatures tumble on Sheelin

April 6th to April 16th 2012 ‘The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series...
Lough Sheelin's witching hour

Evenings best as hot days slow on Sheelin

‘Foster child of silence and slow time’ John Keats People spend half their lives chasing shadows. But what would it feel like to actually catch one?...

Sheelin swung erratically between great fishing and unnerving calm this week

Lough Sheelin Angling Report By Brenda Montgomery, IFI September 11th – September 18th 2016 "Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour...

Fussy fish make the anglers work hard on Sheelin

Lough Sheelin Angling Report By Brenda Montgomery, IFI August 22nd – August 28th 2016 'One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while...

Tougher fishing conditions for anglers fishing on Lough Sheelin this week.

Lough Sheelin by Brenda Montgomery Angling Report June 25th to July 1st 2012 Anglers battled the elements this week on Lough Sheelin particularly from thursday...

Blue skies, cold winds, frosty nights, high water – tough days on Sheelin

“Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to...
A good trout goes back

Sheelin trout fishing: Good but hard in erratic conditions

'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see' Henry David Thoreau August is a fishing month that can sometimes be mistakenly written...
Lough Sheelin’s fishing successes were all about sunsets/silhouettes and darkness

Tough on Sheelin, but far from impossible

‘Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see’. Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘This was the hardest mayfly season...
A Sheelin cracker on an Olive

Sheelin olives and crackers

Michael Flanagan, Angling Guide and Reporter, tells us he lashed a few flies across Sheelin on Tuesday of this week. There were no May...