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Another Season comes to a close
At Lough Slug. We want to try and catch a few Brown Trout, before the season is over.
For me it is always a bit sad to see the winter coming. There is melancholy in the air and the thought, that we have to wait until March for more trout fishing is almost sickening.
But we make the best of it and Ray has a few Brownies to take home.
This one will be my last one for the season 2008 and I'm looking forward to eating it tomorrow.
Good beye to Lough Slug. See you next year.
Ray Robinson in England
Ray Robinson on a little holiday in England. Duncton Hill, Sussex, to be more precise.
There is a trout fishery consisting of a series of chalk lakes.
Ray's friend Mr. Richard Moon shows what these trout want and gives a demonstration.
Obviously a frightfully civilised fishery. You don't even need wellies.
Richard has him in the net.
But Ray catches one on the Bibio. These trout, by the way are no Rainbows; they are Lough Leven Brownies.
Off the Maas Road
There are a good few lakes along the Maas road near Ardara, Co. Donegal.
This one has not many, but pretty good Brown Trout. Ray prooves that beyond a doubt.
Another one on the Bibio.
The day's loot.
Salmon from the Owenea
Great water in the Owenea. Ray and me fishing the lower reaches of this splendid Donegal River.
Ray has one just above the "Little Footbridge".
Not a very big one, but it produces a smile nevertheless.
Mine is not much bigger, but at least we have a wee fish to eat.
At the Owenea towards Ardara.
Ray and Otmar and Me up at Glencolumbcille
Ray tells Otmar where all those lakes are; up at Glencolumbcille. Yonder that there hill.
It is a fair old walk to get up to the lakes, but you are always rewarded. Splendid views all around.
Can't believe my luck. I catch a good brownie on a Wickham's straight away.
And Ray soon has one on a Bibio.
Otmar Butz and Ray Robinson celebrating the day, the fishing and life in general.
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.
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.
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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.
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.