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 […]
Category: Fly Tying
Donal’s picks for 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 […]
Cathal’s Red Arsed Olive Green Stimulator!
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 […]
Mark’s Olives
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 […]
Hawthorn Fly
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 […]
John’s flies
Two beauties from John O’Neill The first is a Picric french partridge variant and the second is a Wulff.
Fran’s Peter Ross Hopper
A Peter Ross Hopper from DTAA Committee member, Fran Nugent. This pattern that has caught many fish on the upper Bohernabreena Reservoir, This works really well from June on to the end of Season and is very easy to tie. Hook – B175 size 14/12 Rib – Silver wire Body – 2/3 Silver tinsel 1/3 […]
Gerry’s Mayfly
Gerry’s variant on the International Dabbler is an outstanding wet fly for pulling up a trout in a good wave. It is Gerry’s own Mayfly pattern that he uses on Conn, Corrib and Mask. The wing and tail is bronze mallard, rib is gold wire, the thorax is hot orange seals fur and the body […]