favorite fish

[Dakaras 3]

Barbel....But Thames Barbel, big and hard to locate and go like a steam train

[waidmann 105]

on the river chub

 

ponds bream

 

i love to eat eels so they are pretty high up too.

 

tight lines.

[foxlamper80 28]

wild brownt trout for me love geting them on the fly and sea trout on the nitefly good scarp way them

[tomburras 2,730]

i like catching barbel, then pike and then big eels (not bootlaces!) had one 5 1/2 lb last year after many night sessions after a good one.

[niall_b73 41]

Wild brown on the fly,but in a lake between county leitrim and fermanagh

there is type of trout called sonaghan unique to lough Melvin,excellent little fish to catch,

beautiful too!

 

yeah i live beside it.

i fished it once last year, 3 of us hired a boat for the day and between us all day we caught 1 perch.

but i/we hope to better that this year.

my daughter caught her first ever fish there as well and is mad to get back out at it this year. she is only 11 & not a bad perch it was

 

 

i have to say i grew up on the colebrook river fishing for trout and i loved it but having only tried for pike when i was about 25 and have never looked back since.

so i love pike fishing (and all other)

 

niall_b73

[birkychrissy 3]

always wanted to go pike fishing would the rod i use for salmon and seatrout be ok for them ?? and i know ill need to buy wire traces and stuff

[niall_b73 41]

always wanted to go pike fishing would the rod i use for salmon and seatrout be ok for them ?? and i know ill need to buy wire traces and stuff

 

i'm sure it would do, then all you would need are wire traces, a few good lures and a bit of luck

deffo worth a try

 

niall_b73

[T bar 1]

Wild brown on the fly,but in a lake between county leitrim and fermanagh

there is type of trout called sonaghan unique to lough Melvin,excellent little fish to catch,

beautiful too!

 

yeah i live beside it.

i fished it once last year, 3 of us hired a boat for the day and between us all day we caught 1 perch.

but i/we hope to better that this year.

my daughter caught her first ever fish there as well and is mad to get back out at it this year. she is only 11 & not a bad perch it was

 

 

i have to say i grew up on the colebrook river fishing for trout and i loved it but having only tried for pike when i was about 25 and have never looked back since.

so i love pike fishing (and all other)

 

niall_b73

I'd say your not to far from me niall.

I had a few lessons on colebrook wit Mr Trotter.Lol! some character,that fella.

Nice perch that,its as big as a good sonaghan.

I hear alot about good size gillaroo on melvin but have'nt had much luck with them.

[events co-ordinator 353]

Mullet brilliant fight on light line and also mackerel on light float tackle.

[niall_b73 41]

ahhh alas the bold packie, lol yeah he is good value.

jesus if i had a pound for every step he took on the colebrooke i'd be a rich man.

 

[bANNED TEXT] is the story with hiring boats i no the drowes fishery hires boats but i would be interested in hiring on pike waters ??

do you no of any hiring boats ??

 

niall_b73

[niall_b73 41]

Mullet brilliant fight on light line and also mackerel on light float tackle.

 

what are the mullet like to eat or can they be eaten ??

i caught 1 last year on my spear gun at johns point in donegal but was told then that they were dirty fish only then to be told that if they come from a clean area (no waist pipes or the like) that they are good to eat ??

 

niall_b73

[country-kid 2]

salmon!

[Guest ROUGH COATED]

PIKE ALL THE WAY

[events co-ordinator 353]

Mullet are a great fish to eat and are great on barbi BUT are very slow growing so only take an occasional one to eat also because of their strong smell they attract WASPSzzzzzzzzzz like nothing you've ever seen.

[neil r 1,861]

Pike on lures and barbel are my favourites