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
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