Fishery Update 18th March.

There has been little fishing in the coarse lake, but the Carp are in much evidence, often sunning themselves in the sluice gate corner.  Some anglers fishing the lake for general coarse fish have hooked and lost one or two of the Carp so prospects look good.

On the fly lake there has been plenty of action.  Jimmy Finnegan had over 40 fish on Sunday, with plenty of double figure catches being made by anglers fishing a combination of either buzzers & apses, or long tailed flies such as damsel nymphs.  There are plenty of roach fry in the fly lake at the moment and some of the rainbows are feeding on these, so minkies and other fry imitations should work over the coming week-end.

The Carp lake will be open to fly-angling for the carp from May.  This will be limited, so booking will be essential.  Contact the fishery office 01 4592625 to book.

Angling report for March 14th.

The trout lake is continuing to fish well with lots of fish coming to buzzers and apse fished below an indicator.  The fish seem to be a little reluctant to take moving flies at the moment, and many of the fish taking the suspended flies are taking them very lightly and softly.  This being said there are half day double figure catches featuring prominently with many of the regular anglers.  At times they are almost catching a fish every cast when they find a pocket of feeding fish.  This is the trick for success, the buzzer hatches are very localised at the moment, some being literally in an area of about 20 feet in diameter, outside of the circle and the takes are very few, in the spot and it's a fish almost immediately, while the hatch continues.  This situation should improve over the next week or so with improving fly hatches.  Meanwhile the key is to search the water until feeding fish are found.

 Today there were signs of large buzzers appearing, some almost half an inch long.  If these larger flies start hatching consistently sport should be very good and some of the heavy double figure fish should start appearing in catch returns. 

Carp are still showing near the surface in the coarse lake, but angling here is light.   Here's hoping the lakes record of 12lb+ tumbles very soon, these young fish are getting bigger every year!



PS. We were featured in Derek Evans Irish times column today.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0314/1224292059474.html

Fishery update March 7th.

Glenda Powell with one of her charges.

Catches on both fisheries are much improved over the last week.  The fly lake has been stocked with over 600 triploid rainbows and these have also stirred up the resident fish.  Both lures and buzzer nymphs are working with some large catches being made on both methods.  Dublin Angling initiative ran a very successful day on the fly lake on Saturday with over 30 children learning the sport of fly-fishing, and a few adults too!.

On the coarse lake the Carp are now moving around and much more active, with approximately two dozen sunning themselves at the surface near the outflow today.  They were moving to loose fed dog biscuits on the top, but as you would expect they were still very cautious of hook-baits.  I would expect a few big catches to start coming out soon

The fishing is picking up...

The warm weather for the last week has woken up the fish in both lakes.  There are a few flies hatching and the trout are moving to them through the middle of the day.  The first Carp of the year was caught on the coarse lake last weekend, and today there were carp moving at the surface near the out flows.  We would still recommend loose feeding rather than heavy groundbaiting until the water warms up further.

The trout lake is due to be stocked on Friday, and on Saturday the Dublin Angling Initiative are holding an open day at the fishery.  This stocking should liven up the older stock fish, and hopefully some big fish will start putting in an appearance in the catch returns again.  With the warmer weather the fishing of natural imitations and buzzer nymphs should start producing better results again.  Klinkhamers and other emergers should also start to take fish while the flies are hatching.