We headed down to Carrigavantry Lake as a practice session for a competition that i was going to fish on the following Saturday just to see what flies and lines would work on the day of the comp. The weather was very changeable with bright sunshine followed by heavy cloud cover and then calm almost flat conditions followed by breezy squalls. The trout took a while to locate but when we found them it was some of the best fishing i had had in some time, taking fish on lures on a Di3 sinking fly line and also on Dry's. Tony had tied up some blob's and fab's on colours that i knew would work so when we found the trout it was just arm wrenching stuff, getting line pulled out of your hand while stripping was common place and when i saw some trout taking on the surface i was only too happy to put a dry fly over them. The trout were mainly in great condition and very hard fighting but they were only populated in a few areas of the lake but as evening approached the wind died away and a few more trout began showing on the surface and i had a very good session on the dry's in practically flat calm condition's. Tony stayed on lures and accounted for a good selection of trout but neither of us met any of the nice brown's that frequent the lake, the best lines were either a Di3 sinking line or a clear intermediate ( slime line ) where the water was a bit weedy but amazingly the most important tip was speed and these trout wanted it fast and i mean fast. As for the dry's the usual floating line and a black klinkhamer was pulling a lot of trout and even a few trout came to a small Daddy that i had tied up on a Tiemco barbless hook which held the trout despite all the weed and trashing around. The information held me in good stead as i won the comp, very few anglers bothered to use dry's and most fished sinking lines and lures which in my opinion the trout had seen enough of in the day's leading up to the comp but the bright sunshine and flat calm conditions made it even harder than even i had anticipated. It's a nice lake and i will definitely be back in November for those beautiful brown's.
Tuesday 27 October 2015
Fly Fishing for Rainbow Trout at Carrigavantry Lake.
We headed down to Carrigavantry Lake as a practice session for a competition that i was going to fish on the following Saturday just to see what flies and lines would work on the day of the comp. The weather was very changeable with bright sunshine followed by heavy cloud cover and then calm almost flat conditions followed by breezy squalls. The trout took a while to locate but when we found them it was some of the best fishing i had had in some time, taking fish on lures on a Di3 sinking fly line and also on Dry's. Tony had tied up some blob's and fab's on colours that i knew would work so when we found the trout it was just arm wrenching stuff, getting line pulled out of your hand while stripping was common place and when i saw some trout taking on the surface i was only too happy to put a dry fly over them. The trout were mainly in great condition and very hard fighting but they were only populated in a few areas of the lake but as evening approached the wind died away and a few more trout began showing on the surface and i had a very good session on the dry's in practically flat calm condition's. Tony stayed on lures and accounted for a good selection of trout but neither of us met any of the nice brown's that frequent the lake, the best lines were either a Di3 sinking line or a clear intermediate ( slime line ) where the water was a bit weedy but amazingly the most important tip was speed and these trout wanted it fast and i mean fast. As for the dry's the usual floating line and a black klinkhamer was pulling a lot of trout and even a few trout came to a small Daddy that i had tied up on a Tiemco barbless hook which held the trout despite all the weed and trashing around. The information held me in good stead as i won the comp, very few anglers bothered to use dry's and most fished sinking lines and lures which in my opinion the trout had seen enough of in the day's leading up to the comp but the bright sunshine and flat calm conditions made it even harder than even i had anticipated. It's a nice lake and i will definitely be back in November for those beautiful brown's.
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