Fly or feather

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As I have mentioned a number of times before here my local river is very small but great fun to fish, but this year I have only had one chance to fish it so far but I was planning to make some time this week. Yesterday while passing I took a look in and I wasn't very surprised to see how low the water levels are, the river now is made up of pools and very low water running in between.

Is this a good time to fish it or would I be better to load up the sea fishing rods and feather traces take a few mackerel down on the bridges of Ross or castle cliffs on the west coast of Clare. :confused: :confused: :confused:

All suggestions welcome ..

[greg long]

Fish fly for bass, pollock etc. for the day.

Have a look at the river in the late evening when you get a rise to spent or sedges would be my advice.

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Thanks Greg, and welcome back, I haven't see you around recently

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Greg,

The fly rod I have is a 9 and a half foot rod AFT 7/8 is this big enough to go after bass and pollock

[greg long]

Yeah, should be.

Been Ill, but getting better. Could have been worse got hospitalised 1 day after my weeks fishing on the Corrib....could have been a week earlier Now I have half a dozen holes in my chest but it only hurts when I laugh

[10 brownie points]

so fishing is out and now you can't even watch the rest of us fishing in case we make you laugh at our attempts ...

 

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[greg long]

'Fraid so. Cant even paint yet either. Hope to be a bit more mobile in a week or so. In the meantime I'll keep taking the pills. Down side:- no alcahol, upside:- who needs it with the pills

only problem is I've a short window between happiness/ normality / pain. so I spend much time dozing etc. too dopey to do much else and after half an hour of waking time pain kicks in and its happy time again.

I will be off the heavy meds on Saturday though

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Hi Lewis

 

Castle point - bet you've never tried fly fishing from there . I was there 3 years ago and it took about 8 ounces of lead to get the feathers to sink, the wind was that strong. But a great place to be. Never had any luck at the Bridges of Ross. Never fly fished ever So the other day I thought I would subscribe to the Irish Angler as Ireland is where I go for holiday sea fishing. With the subscription comes a free fly leader. So now I start thinking about sea fly fishing, as I have the line. I've had a look on a sea fly fishing web-site but it's like reading a foreign language. Any idea where I can find out the real basic basics?? Tim

 

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