Fly Fishing for Rainbow and Brown Trout. ( HD ).

   

         

Having driven through some of the worst fog i have seen in some time i was very surprised to be greeted by bright sunshine and a flat calm lake, but this is Ireland and that can change in a heart beat and it did. As soon as the wind came it dropped the temperature to about four degrees celsius and trust me you could feel it even the landing nets started to stiffen up especially when trying to release some of the trout. I started on the dry fly as this lake has a good population of free rising trout but they can be very finicky and it can take some time to get them to take the dry fly with confidence. Having tried some small Klinks and only getting a few shy takes but a lot of refusals i moved over to a size 16 F- fly midge and the trout were very happy to hit the small fly with gusto. This presented a problem because some of the takes were very explosive and i came out of a few good trout as the hook was quite small and they were able to shake it loose with ease. The lake itself was very busy with most of the casting areas taken by anglers so i couldn't set up my cameras as normal but still got some nice footage with one or two good trout thrown in. The best trout were under the 9lb mark as they had dropped some body weight due to the cold weather and it being off season but they all gave a great account of themselves and therefore i made sure that they were well rested before i released them back into the lake. The brown trout were fairly static on the bottom so i used a Di3 sinking fly line with a black / green booby which i had just tied up the night before, using a very slow figure of eight retrieve i was able to catch a couple of good browns but thinking back i should have used a sink 7 line which would have presented the fly longer in the zone and with the booby just sitting off the bottom i probably would have met more trout, but that's for another day. The fishing itself was slow with some of the other anglers only meeting the odd fish but this is December and any fish is a bonus in the challenging weather conditions.