As we head into the final competition of the DTAA calendar, it is clear that this event is much bigger than any single competition. It is all to play for among the top three: Competition secretary, angler extraordinaire and fly tying master Tom ‘Hipster’ Hipwell is in pole position on 39 points. Snapping at Hipwell’s […]
Congratulations to Gerry Heaslip for winning the Ryder Cup today on Bohernabreena Resevoirs. It was tough fishing conditions with 5 anglers catching fish. Tom Hipwell was 2nd and John O‘Neill was 3rd. All to play for heading to the last competition of the year the McCarron cup in 24th September.
Huge congratulations to Paul Delaney for qualifying for the Irish team at yesterdays Interprovincials. And to Justin Clarke for making reserves.Leinster won on the day congratulations to all.
Grateful to John O’Neill for this excellent tying of the classic sedge pattern: The Welshman’s Button The Welshman’s Button is a sedge that hatches from morning till dusk, mid May right through the summer with small hatches in early August and even as late as September on lough Mask. Lough Ennell, Sheelin, Ree and Conn […]
DTAA member and expert fly tier, Donal Raftery presents his two picks. These are Donal’s go-to flies when fishing the magnificent Lough Conn at Mayfly time and he’d have these on his cast on any lough when the hatch is on. Big thanks to Donal. Please feel free to like and share…. On the left […]
If he had to pick one fly, DTAA Secretary Cathal McDonnell would choose the Red Arsed Olive Green Stimulator. Best fished in a wave on Lough Conn. David Dinsmore gave Cathal one of these flies on his first trip to Lough Conn and it has got fish at most of his Lough Conn & Cullin […]
Olives. DTAA member Mark McAllister says that Olives are showing on the Tourmakeady shore this time of year and he’s had success with his friend and clubmate, Nessan Kelly’s Olives. When asked, Nessan emphasised that these were not “his” olives, they were tied after Dennis Moss’s pattern, the Dark Olive Midge page 57 of Trout […]
DTAA Committee member and ecologist John Harrington has noticed good hatches of hawthorn flies around at the moment, great fishing when they’re blown onto the water. John’s tying for hawthorn (first picture): Hook b160 size 12, Thread black uni 8, Body tied black 3 pheasant fibres tied half way round bend, fine silver wire reverse […]
Two beauties from John O’Neill The first is a Picric french partridge variant and the second is a Wulff.