The recent set of articles about the pike in Lough Mask has prompted a bit of mail. Some want to know more about the pike there, and others keep asking about the trout! As a balance to Mark Ackerley’s excellent pike series, which you can read elsewhere in fishing.co.uk, local fishing guide Brian Joyce informs here those fluff chuckers who are travelling to the Emerald Isle in search of the wild brown spotties. It’s a handy guide of what to expect.
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Norwegian Flyfishers Club Address: Robert-Blum-Str. 5 bD-22453 HamburgGermany Tel: ++49-40-589 23 02 Fax: ++49-40-589 23 04 Email: raguse@fishing.co.uk Web: www.nfc-online.com Norway has always conjured up special and precious images. Mountainpanoramas, fastflowing crystalline rivers, very large leaping silver fish… Norway has always conjured up special and precious images. Mountainpanoramas, fastflowing crystalline rivers, very large leaping silverfish…These…
Trophy Room for Eddie Kuczynski Specie: Sea-Trout Weight: 16lb 10oz Location: River DoveySea-Trout 16lb 10oz caught on the River Dovey by Eddie Kuczynski using a single fly whilst fishing at night.Date of capture: August 20th 1999. GO BACK
This picture is not really surprising since the river trout of Scotland have long been overshadowed by their apparently more glamorous counterparts, the salmon. In the glory days when migratory fish were prolific, trout were regarded as low status fish, at best a lesser substitute for the table should no salmon be caught, and at…
Although I do not believe that we did much harm to the pike, having occasionally caught the same fishes at a later date with the gaff mark healing up, it did occur to me how, as anglers, our general attitude to our quarry has changed. I doubt if there is a single pike angler in…
Those of you who are unfortunate enough to read my monthly pieces for this site will be well aware by now of my propensity for power catamarans. I have now owned several, both for pleasure and for charter work, and have driven a bunch of others. Most of these vessels have been either South African…