Hello

This is my first venture into the world of blogging I always thought I had nothing of interest to say but that doesn’t stop a lot of other bloggers so here goes.

I live in a wonderful town in West Cork, Ireland and the River Sullane runs through it to join the River Lee on its journey through Cork. The River is home to a population of wild Brown Trout and since I got my licence and the season began in March I have taken every opportunity to catch them. I have had some success and many frustrating hours on the river but most of all it has rekindled my love of fly fishing after becoming disillusioned when living in England with the stocked Rainbow Trout fishing holes that I used to frequent. More about that in later posts I think.

I had never fly fished a river or caught a wild brown trout before moving here so the learning curve is steep but the pleasure of that first one only a few inches long caught on a dry fly just a few weeks ago is memorable. This was a snatched slightly out of focus picture on my phone but I was rushing to get the fish back in the water quickly so that’s my excuse.

I went on fishing into the darkness with bats whizzing round my head and managed six fish all around six to eight inches, the last one caught in the dark really but when the fish keep coming who wants to pack up and go home.

I have caught a few more since and even hooked a “monster” that took me on a panicky and incredibly fast journey from one side of the river to the other before one of my poorly tied knots in the semi darkness failed and it was lost.

The pleasure and excitement I have had in a few weeks of fishing surpasses all the days on a “put and take” fishery that I used to pay a lot of money to throw a line in search of stockies. I will post more pictures of the wonderful river and its tributaries soon and maybe some more wild brownies.