Fishing journalist Rudy van Duijnhoven was on the street in southern Eire along with his fishing buddy Theo van de Ballot for the final week of September. Right here is his report:
‘The primary cease was Greg and Sigi Latour’s Tir na Spideoga Fishing Lodge in Inchigeelagh, County Cork. For 2 days, Greg Latour guided us on Lough Allua, fishing numerous promising spots with pike streamers. The north wind meant that the pike had been hardly lively, and the catch – regardless of the arduous work – was restricted to some small pike.
We then moved to Cobh, and switched our goal to seabass. Richie Ryan of Cork Bass took us out on the water for a day in Cork Harbour. The robust north-west wind made fly-fishing something however simple, there have been large waves with foam heads within the harbour and the drifting of the boat was quicker than fascinating. After attempting for seabass at a couple of places, Richie sailed to the mouth of the harbour to attempt for pollock. Pollock once more proved to be a fish you possibly can depend on and with fast-sinking fly strains and small Clouser Minnows, a number of good pollock could possibly be landed.
Later that day, we tried some fly fishing from the shore for bass in and across the Cobh space, fishing a couple of totally different spots at totally different levels within the tide. After a number of casting, instantly, the fish turned lively, and we managed to get a couple of bass on floor flies, which was nice enjoyable.
We moved to Youghal the next day, and regardless of the robust north westerly winds, which made casting troublesome, we managed to have the very best session of the week. After touchdown quite a few bass within the 40-50cm bracket on white/beige streamer patterns, we began to get some greater fish, together with a few 60cm fish, which had been tremendous fish to get on a fly rod. However even these fish had been made to look small by a extremely good 70cm+ fish, which got here to a white streamer about 10cm in size. Along with seabass, we additionally managed to land mackerel and a garfish on the fly.
Earlier than making the return journey to Dublin, we fished the identical spot for a couple of hours the subsequent morning. As a consequence of altering situations, with a weak south-westerly wind now, there was a a lot stronger tidal present. The catch this morning was restricted to some small seabass as much as 40 centimetres in size. Nonetheless, Theo and Rudy returned house very glad and are already trying ahead to their subsequent fishing journey to Eire.’
Go Fishing…
Tir na Spideoga Fishing Lodge
Greg and Sigi Latour
Inchigeelagh, Cork
Eire P12 KX62
Tel. +353 (0)26 47151
E-mail: [email protected]
www.pike-fishing-ireland.com/fishing
Richie Ryan
Tel.: +353 (0)86 1940744
E-mail: [email protected]
www.corkbass.com
