Rainbow time

It's rainbow time in Donegal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Ray and me decide, to spend the last day of the trout season at Lough Naloughraman.

And we are not coming home empty handed.  There are still a good few trout taking our flies.

At the windmills again

Ray is walking down to another lake at the windmills of Barnesmore.  Thank God, where we are, there is always one more lake to fish.

 

 

There is a definite autumn feel about the place.

Fishing the Blue Stacks at Barnesmore.

 

Ray at Lough Free

Ray caught two fish at Lough Free, Co. Donegal.

 

 

Photographs (2) Eva Robinson

 

 

 

When I asked him which fly they took, his dry answer was: on a Blue and Purple Shitty and on a Bogfly.

Spot the trout

Ray trying hard to catch a fish in the Eany Beg.

Spot the fish. Probably Ray's smallest of the season.

At Disert

Near Disert at the foothills of the Blue Stack Mountains.

For the Old Celts this site was of particular significance. When visiting Disert today, you still feel that there is something special about the place.

Lough Meenaguse is not far away from here.

 

 

It is known for its beautiful golden trout.

Killybegs water reservoir, Co. Donegal

Getting ready to fish Killybegs water reservoir, Co. Donegal.

Sebastian Kapretz from Berlin tries to catch his first ever trout, bubble-floating.

No bother at all to the man.

Blue Stack Mountains.

High up in the Blue Stack Mountains.

 

Ray gutting the loot. We caught a few smallish brown trout in Lough Anna.

Good dose of rain

Good stuff, a bit of wind and a good dose of rain. High up in the Donegal Mountains.

Big Trout from a mountain lake. This is the biggest trout we have caught in 20 years of mountain lake fishing.

And all I say is this: it took a size 12 Bibio and was carefully returned.

Let's hope this feller spawns and all his offspring grow big.

photographs (3) Ray Robinson

Splendid weather

Splendid weather at Lough Naloughraman.

Depressing.

According to Ray's theory we shouldn't catch much today.

Well, they weren't big anyway.

Fishing Lough Mhor

The lake up at the corkscrew, near Doochary, Co. Donegal. Ray is fully concentrated.

 

There is the take.  That must be a monster.

Now!

Ah, well.