Trout on Sheelin for those fishing dry between downpours
Lough Sheelin Angling Report July 27th – August 2nd 2020
‘To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it’
Henry Kissinger
Lough Sheelin...
Unsocial hours on Sheelin, trout maintain social distance from anglers
Lough Sheelin Angling Report July 13th – July 26th 2020
‘Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again’
Paul Simon
Last week’s absence of an angling...
Lough Sheelin Angling Report: July 6th – July 12th 2020
Brenda Montgomery, IFI, reports from Lough Sheelin
‘Successful trout fishing isn’t a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration’
John Gierach
The...
Fry up, fish down on Sheelin
Lough Sheelin Angling Report June 29th – July 5th 2020
‘Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you...
A week for wets on Sheelin
Lough Sheelin Angling Report June 22nd – June 28th 2020
“Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character...
Weather woes as Sheelin slows…..
Lough Sheelin Angling Report June 15th – June 21st, 2020
‘A man can be destroyed but never defeated’
Ernest Hemingway ...
Mayfly all but over, time to Trichoptera on Sheelin
Lough Sheelin Angling Report June 8th – June 14th, 2020
‘Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting...
The highs and the lows, that’s how Sheelin goes
Lough Sheelin Angling Report June 1st – June 7th, 2020
“When the evening hatch is over and the day is done, the fisherman doesn’t always...
Ephemeral magic on Mediterranean Sheelin
Lough Sheelin Angling Report: May 25th – May 31st, 2020
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
W.B. Yeats
The...
Patience makes for time well spent on Sheelin
Lough Sheelin Angling Report May 18th-24th, 2020
'Put backing on your line, even if you never use it. It helps you to dream’
Jimmy D. Moore
Lough...
