Winter rainbow trout

 

My good friend and fishing buddy Peter and I went fishing rainbows last week in Springwater Lodge near Lisburn.I havent fished rainbows in a long time so I didnt know what to expect,But let me tell you, we had some fun!Here is Peter with a beauty,Peter knows how to get them,Hes a very good angler,He had so many fish that day.

We caught alot on buzzers, blobs and minkies,anything we cast out to them they took!

I would like to share some of the flies I was useing during the year, they worked very effectively for me,They are the old relyable phesant tail nymph, the shuttlecock and sedge larve,the beads are made from tungsten on the two nymphs.The shuttlecock is an emerger pattern I use all the time.

                                              Fisheries awareness week Navan 2012

One of the few trout i caught when demonstrating nymphing.

I am glad to have been there today in navan showing people new methods of catching trout. There was a good turn out today young and old.I hope people took away some of the skills they learned today and will put them into good practice.

Nymphing is one of the most effective ways of catching trout.If you want numbers of trout this is the method.

Newzeland style is another very effective method for catching trout,its a fun method to fish, you can catch fish either on the dry fly or the nymph hanging below the dry fly.

Anyone who would like to learn these methods,contact me and we can organise tuition for you.

The season got off to a great start,there was plenty of trout to be got.All methods were working,I was fishing NZ style and the trout were takeing the dry.thanks to th mild weather,the only down fall the rivers are going low.French nymphing is working a treat in the runs