Heading to the River Fergus in Clare later, it's only a few hundred yards from my house. Well done, I love wet fly fishing it's traditional and feels less cumbersome than nymph's and dries. Got my fly rod back from America needed to get the top half rebuilt, it snapped lifetime guarantee. The lake is full now, so Lough Inchiquinn in Corofin empties into the Fergus and it's crystal clear water and a dept of 4 ft nice flow perfect for the wets
Great video, I've only started fly fishing rivers this year, couldn't catch anything until I watched, since watching this I've caught trout almost every time I'm out now 👌 thanks
Well done a great video and real nice to see traditional wet flies being fished and catching too. I learned to fly fish using traditional wet flies and I'd still mostly fish wets .
An excellent video - thanks for sharing - I have taken the liberty of sharing this to my fishing club facebook page - I hope you don't mind - I am the only angler that ever fishes wet flies on our beat and I hope to inspire some others to try something different - everyone is getting into Czech / Euro nymphing and forget that these traditional methods still catch plenty of fish - Cheers - Steve.
Hi Simon, Great video. I'm a novice to river fly fishing so I'm on a steep learning curve. I always thought you had to fish upstream otherwise the fly will not act naturally? Or with wet flies do you feel comfortable keeping them hanging in the downstream current? Most of my fishing will be on rivers that look identical, if not narrower. Thanks, Chris
Hi Chris,I like using both methods, but I stick to wet fly fishing as it's more traditional in my view swinging a fly. I used to upstream nymph fish but it was too boring to me!
Can you explain your retrieve(if there is one)? Are you inching it back through the current, or just letting it swing round, hauling it back and going again? Many thanks.. I want to give the wet fly a go this season
Great video and quite informative- not too many Irish river wet fly videos on YT. Just curious- do you allow a belly to form in your line during the swing? Judging by your mending I would assume not, and that you keep the fly line straight. Just curious as I'd like to know more about wet fly- on my local river I'm plagued by different speeds of current which make my line+ flies go all over the place during the swing despite mending. Happy fishing!
Hi Conor. The purpose for mending for me is to slow the flies down . I dont like fishing too fast! The line will appear straight but I follow it with my rod tip so it actually does 'swing' at the same time. It allows me to cover the same ground but slower. I also fish for salmon this way
@@simonharkness4522 You'll get a great run of Dollighan up the Sixmile stretch come the tail end of the season... highly recommended. Great video Simon thank you
Great video, thanks! Was it early in the season, or can you use those flies all year round? Would it be fair to say that it's usually smaller trout you get in the faster waters, or can you get big ones casting downstream into a ripple like that too? Thanks and happy fishing to you.
