Feedback & Reports

Fly fishing, slow sink line and floating line. Bibio caught when wave was big.

4 Trout

Very few takes on a very bright, sunny, windy day. Just 3 small trout taken on dry flies, track ok if using a 4x4 vehicle.

3 Trout

Very windy, all fish between 6 and 14 ozs. Difficult day, small black flies again. Kept to area in front of boathouse. No way you could get a car along the track 4x4 essential and then still pretty rough. Wonderful scenery.

7 Trout

All fish between 6 and 12 ozs one just over a pound. Very difficult walking got stuck for a minute and lost a wellie, please be careful. Small black flies did the trick.

14 Trout

Heavy rain all day. Fish caught on bushy fly on top dropper. All fish returned.
Beautiful place to fish - would be even better in decent weather!

8 Trout

Recent catch reports for this beautiful lake suggested I was either in for a feast or a famine: as things turned out it was somewhere in between. It's a long drive from where I live and I wasn't fishing until almost midday. Overcast skies and a cold southeasterly wind meant the first couple of hours were very quiet and I took only one small trout. As the day warmed and the wind dropped a bit there were a couple of flurries of activity, one in the early afternoon and another in the early evening. These helped me to take ten trout it total, the best of which was close to a pound and feeding only a couple of feet from the shore. I fished a team of wet flies with the Zulu and Green Peter taking most fish. When the fish were active I also had plenty of rises, swirls and missed takes which gave the impression the fish were not really feeding heavily. I have often encountered this behaviour fishing Irish loughs after periods of rain - the locals claimed it was because the rain had washed so much food into the lake that the fish were stuffed full. I find that a much more appealing explanation than straight forward incompetence!

10 Trout

Fished between traditional wet and dry, depending on weather (wind and light showers) and trout showing. 2 fish on grouse & claret and one on black gnat emerger.

3 Trout

Really bright sunny day. Very few fish moving, fished hard all day and had a few slashing rises but only one take, a small black finned trout. Beautiful location.

1 Trout

1 fish caught and returned - about 1/2 pound. Caught on a olive emerger. Fantastic location - even if the fishing was hard work that day.

1 Trout

A great day do be up at Bugeilyn. Slow fishing in the morning, sporadic rises now and again but picked up in the afternoon. Caught in excess of 20 feisty wee brownies, lost count before packing in early evening. Busy place today, 2 in the boat and a season ticket holder on the bank. Another angler did turn up late afternoon, half an hour out in their float tube and then left, I thought that was a bit odd.

20 Trout