Fishing?

[admin]

Anyone here do any?

Partial to a bit myself every now and again.

[Damofto]

Yes I love it, mainly fly fishing these days but love to get out on Sea when I can too.
What kind of fishing are you into?

[Damofto]

I grew up with coarse fishing as well, spent many a day on the Shannon - my dad used to drop me in Banagher in his way to work and pick me up after.  Perch and eels were the main target them days, it doesn't seem to be near as good now. 
I just started fly fishing a few years ago but it's my preferred method now, it's frustrating at the start but once you get the hang of it its very enjoyable.  Fly-tying is almost a hobby in itself too, it's hard to beat the feeling of catching a fish on a fly you tied yourself.

[DEMPSEY]

I used to do alot of course fishing and would like to get back to it. Did some sea fishing but prefer course.

[LordEoin]

There's good trout and salmon fishing about these parts, but i've been kept too busy to do any this year.
Anyway, if I pay for salmon fishing in he blackwater all the money gets shipped back to Lord Candlish's purse...

[Eoin]

I used to do lots of sea fishing, it's about 5 years now since I did it weekly. It was really easy when I lived in Ringsend.

I have a stack of gear at home, a few grands worth of bits and pieces.

My best night was a night in Greystones where I had 9 seperate species over the night.

I used to primarily fish on overnight sessions, and the rougher the weather the more I liked it, hipflask in me pocket and all was good.

[Greg2013]

I have about 4 rods of various types up in attic that have not see daylight in about 2 years. No car so cant do much fishing. helvick is usually pretty decent around mid August onwards for mackerel.

[Eoin]

My best night was a night in Greystones where I had 9 seperate species over the night.

My best expedition was a bit of opportunistic fishing in Cootehall (Roscommon). My aunt was going to collect something there and she dropped me off at the bridge. I pulled out a 4lb trout, a 4lb pike and a 7lb pike, all in the space of 20 mins! The 7lb pike had recently eaten a ~0.5 lb trout which was still intact inside, except for the fins which had been digested.

My brother is very heavy into fishing down that neck of the woods, he has a fishing boat that he takes out from where the barge is in Carrick. He does ghille for people down there too, knows all the lakes and spots, takes it very seriously altogether. I'm not so into coarse myself, the whole catch and release buzz is a bit of a cod to be honest, I'm more of a fish eater than a pure sports fisherman.

[Eoin]

I keep the good ones, and let back the ones that won't be eaten.

Although I gather now you can't keep much, e.g. all pike have to go back.

Not all pike, you can keep them up to 40CM and males as far as I know. You are not allowed to take the hens at all.

I like to eat a nice pike, if they didn't have those damned Y bones they're one of the tastiest fish out there.

[DEMPSEY]

The Germans love the Pike and will try to take them home with them in their camper vans. My sister in law lives in Hillstreet Co Leitrim approx 8 miles from Carrick, they have 2 lakes on their land that have Pike Perch and such,no Trout as the lake bed is muddy and not suited for Trout. Great fishing in it as it does not get too many fisherman.

[Eoin]

The Germans love the Pike and will try to take them home with them in their camper vans. My sister in law lives in Hillstreet Co Leitrim approx 8 miles from Carrick, they have 2 lakes on their land that have Pike Perch and such,no Trout as the lake bed is muddy and not suited for Trout. Great fishing in it as it does not get too many fisherman.

What's her name Brian, I know the place well, in fact I spent my summers in the area, chances are I know her?

[Eoin]

East Europeans eat pike too. It's only Irish really that won't generally speaking. I think even the odd English lad will eat them.

I remember the old Irish lads would have eaten them, most of them dead now though.

[DEMPSEY]

The English lads who come over for fishing trips have the same attitudes as the Irish fisherman,its the German and other East Europeans that can have different attitudes that can cause agro. My sister in laws husband has had a few run ins with them and has had to run them off his land. One time I remember an Italian man came on to the land with a gun and aimed it at the swans living on one of the crannóg's (man made islands). He was walked to the road which meant he had a long walk to get back to his camp.

[Eoin]

The English lads who come over for fishing trips have the same attitudes as the Irish fisherman,its the German and other East Europeans that can have different attitudes that can cause agro. My sister in laws husband has had a few run ins with them and has had to run them off his land. One time I remember an Italian man came on to the land with a gun and aimed it at the swans living on one of the crannóg's (man made islands). He was walked to the road which meant he had a long walk to get back to his camp.

I remember my father telling me his neighbour used to go fishing on the Shannon with a shot gun. He had a grudge against pike, as he reckoned they'd eaten all the trout out of it. So he used to bait an area with potato (it'd be maggots nowadays) and when the fish started to appear in any numbers he'd start letting rip with the shot gun.

Lucky he didn't meet my brother then, he'd have a canary and would have wardens on him in a flash, he probably knows all the large pike down there by name

[DEMPSEY]

there were guy's doing that in the 40's,they were shooting at fokkers flying overhead and scaring the cow's .