Folks,
I see a few emails re the fishing on Lough Corrib at the moment. I have tried to reply but the mails dont seem to send. Anyway...........
The weather is cold enough at the moment, pleanty of wind and rain. There are some sunny patches in the afternooons so that is when I would venture out for a few hours fishing.BE WARNED however, bring your wets and wooley clothes. You will need them!
There are still massive amounts of duckfly (chironomids) hatching but the hatches are slowing down a bit. It is coming into Olive time and I am seeing more and more hatches of Olives every day. Especially on the lower lake. For anybody coming to fish Corrib in the next few days/weeks I would recommend a few particular flies (see below) but the majority will be duckfly and olive patterns.
This years duckfly fishing was out of this world for some and not so great for others. I was lucky enough to have had a few great evenings down the lower lake and 1 or 2 days in the upper lake. The most productive flies for me were definatly the black buzzer/duckfly nymphs and for dries, the shuttlecock buzzers, maybe even the shipmans buzzers. I cant wait to get my teeth into the olive fishing and then the Mayfly fishing in a few weeks. Yippee!!!
Ashley, I know that you were involved in the VFB midge swap, I would bring along a few of those patterns. Especially Don Johnsons fly (thanks Don) I had great sport on it. For those of you who missed out, Don' s fly was a simple buzzer suspended approx 1 inch below a piece of foam resembling a sub-surface buzzer getting ready to hatch.
The following are my recommendations for ye, I hope that they do the business for ye, they did for me the last few years and I would call them my "go-to" flies.
Buzzers:
Black/Red/Claret/Fiery brown Shuttlecock Buzzers.
Black/Red/Claret/Fiery Brown Shipmans buzzers.
Black nymphs.
Olives:
Sooty olives
Golden Olives
Claret and Mallard
The "bumble" version of the above 3 flies.
Bibio
Olive nymphs
Phesant tail nymphs
Mayfly nymphs.
If you are not familiar with these, ask in the B&B. They are all traditional Irish, and somebody will point you in the right direction.
Finally, please fill me in on how ye get on. I would be mad interested in knowing how you did. And dont be afraid of trying your own secret/new/local pattern, you never know how you will do. These Corrib trout never fail to surprise on top of that, I wouldnt mind getting my hands on a new killer!
Beir Bua!
Ronan (Loxymac)
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