Connemara National Park
Lough Nakillion is at the south tip of "Connemara National Park" and Mr. Raymondo and I catch a lot of nice brown trout. They are not really selective and take all sorts of flies. But you should never be without a Bibio.
At Lough Easky
Lough Easky lies high up in the Ox Mountains, County Sligo. The setting is splended and there are countless small brown trout chasing the flies.
A Salmon for Otmar Butz
Again lots of water in the Owenea. The usual thing in Donegal: once it has started to rain, it never stops.
That's the stuff the salmon angler wants. Otmar Butz plays a nice fish at "The Tagh".
Fresh up from the sea. The salmon season gets some shape now, after a very slow start.
My first Salmon of the Season
Whilst Ray is chewing up a cast, I hook my first salmon of the season and the day with the very first cast. Lucky me, or is it just the skill?
The fish took a Masquerade and is not that easy to land in the "Crooked Hole", one of the many well known pools of the Owenea.
There we have it.
There is one jumping at the "Yellow Banks" and just a bit further down I'm into my second one.
Again on the Masquerade.
Not as big as the first one, but I am a happy man all the same.
You don't go home with two salmon every day.
Fotos (4): Ray Robinson
Ray does it again
Great feller this Ray Robinson and the fish isn't bad either.
That's where it came from. The Owenea and again, it took a Bibio.
At Haughton's Shore
At Haughton's Shore, Co. Leitrim. The Shannon-Erne Waterway meets Lough Garadice.
That is a good spot for perch and pike. Sarah Buettner prooves that without a doubt.
The entire area looks very pikey indeed and we can catch a few small ones on a spoon.
On the Bibio
Ray Robinson does it again. He caught two nice salmon on the Bibio. Where? Owenea.
Foto: Eva Robinson
The day the rain came
An evening at the picknick-table, Owenea, Co. Donegal. After the rain there was a good bit of water in the river and it looked perfect. But there wasn't a fish in sight.
Ray Robinson and Otmar Butz hope to catch a salmon soon, because the forecast is pretty good. More rain to come.
No Rain, no Salmon
No rain, no salmon. So, it's the lakes of the Blue Stack Mountains again. You couldn't hope for a more beautiful setting for your brown trout fishing anyway.
No matter, which way you look at it.
Ray Robinson and Otmar Butz at a lake near Barnesmore, Co. Donegal.
Soon enough we had a good few trout, not the biggest ones, but good fishing and good eating.
In the Blue Stacks
Linus preparing a cast for Anja, to be ready for the trouts of a Blue Stack Mountain lake.
But the lake didn't yield a trout whatsoever. We have to come back another day.