Double Tap...

Trout Got Owned!

I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone (Figuratively..) and save myself coming up with two witty titles with a double post of what I've been getting up to during the week. Midweek I hit the Boyne for a couple of hours to tie up some loose ends with a few fish, when I arrived a few small trout were licking something off the top so I set up a single dry to pick them off one by one, Caddis emerger for the win! But after covering a few fish and only nailing two I thought I was missing out so I took a close look at the surface and spotted a few BWO spinners... The caddis got replaced by a #16 olive paradun and straight away it got raped by a trout, Bingo... I hit a few more before it slowed down again and changed back to the caddis emerger...

Caddis Lip Ring

On the way up to the great wall a small trib joins the main river, well it usually does but with the lack of rain for a few months now it's on its bones...





"I sware, I left it right here..."

I by-passed the great wall and went sraight to the creepy hollows for a while to hunt some pigs but they werent playing ball so I stayed for a few spratts and then got the fuck out of there...

Fooled like a Fool...

I was planning on sleeping most of today but I got a call from the Cricket at around 10. He was like "Get the Fuck up were hitting the lake!", and I didn't want to argue with the man. We seem to have a mutual agreement, I get to go fishing with him as long as I rig the boat up, It's a tough life... I've been on Lene a few times over the last few weeks and had a mess of trout so I wanted to ring the changes a bit, a.k.a big-ass pike fly on an intermediate to nail a green submarine...

Bugger Beast

I flaked the lake from 3 until about 4.30 with the set-up and had two hits and no snotrockets landed, bummer... Jimmy 'The Cricket' McCummisky wanted to lace up his dappin' stick so we blew up to the top of the lake opposite the pump house. So far J-bear didn't get a tap so he was a bit pissed until we found some fish up along the reeds...

Soulja Beetle

Numero Uno

I laced up an intermediate with a 16ft leader and knotted up a blob up top, a small viva variant below, and a huge minky on the point and hit a trout first drift with the blob on a fast figure of eight, Shweet! After the first drift I figured a team of nymphs would clean up with all the fish moving just sub-surface so a swift change was made to a floater with a cruncher up top, hot head diawl bach in the middle, and a stripped quill buzzer on the point. I covered a fish about 20 meters from the boat and it nailed the buzzer as soon as it hit the water and then started swimming towards me, wrong way... I pretty much skulldragged it to the net in about 5 seconds and as soon as it got in the boat it went bananas so it was slipped back asap before it bitchslapped me in the face. The cricket hit a fish with his regular beating stick and a hatch of dries on his leader thank fuck, blank saved! 

The Cricket in Action

Go Barbless or Go Home..

I had one more at the end of the next drift and then we blew back to the dock for food and then hit the road. Overall a pretty shit day! I still have plans for the snotrockets though, stay tuned...