Wicklow 20/03/10 - something completely different

[alby]

People:me & Mr. I.N. Cognito

Duration:3 - 7:30

Tide:was none

Weather:pleasant

Bait:worm & mepps

Rigs:hook & lead shot

Results:2 salmon & 20 wild brownies




Report:
Seeing as the shore fishing is completely w@nk at the moment, myself & Eri... (I mean Mr. I.N. Cognito) went to a river in the wicklow mountains to catch a few trout. We got our day pass for the river and off we went.

Rick balls got into a small brownie early doors and then had a lovely fish close on 2lbs. These were true wild fish, fin perfect & in fantastic condition. We fished all the likely pools for a mile or so before I got a gentle bite and struck into a heavyish weight, it was a salmon of about 3.5lbs caught spinning a worm, rubbish fight, just a few headshakes and rolls on the surface. When I was putting him back he took off at an incredible speed and I thought why didn't you do that when you were hooked you bugger

10 minutes later I caught another of almost identical size in a pool abput 100 yards further on!! Ricko caught a few more brownies and we headed back to the pool where he had his better fish from earlier, as it got dusk i was getting a fish a cast and had 8 brownies in consecutive casts!! Something completely different for the day but most enjoyable & active type of fishing.

Well worth a look at this time of the year, especially on the east coast, anything that pulls back is better than micro coalies & flats!!

[masterkeane]

Great little session lads well done

[kstaff]

Sounds like a good day out and a nice change to the mini bashing indeed.

[JOHN1]

thats great fishing lads well done
i think i know the lad in the oversized waders, im sure iv seen him on the beaches on my travels

[TubeNFish]

From the photos those salmon are spawned out kelts, and they would be physically pretty knackered not having eaten much for several months, and then spawned.
That would explain their inability to put up much resistance.

Good sign for the future to see a few spawners around!

Beautiful trout.

[kenf41]

that was truly a great days fishin, id love to go there for a day

[alby]

From the photos those salmon are spawned out kelts, and they would be physically pretty knackered not having eaten much for several months, and then spawned.
That would explain their inability to put up much resistance.

Good sign for the future to see a few spawners around!

Beautiful trout.

Thanks for that Norm,

So basically they go back out to sea to feed and return next winter to spawn again??

[plumster]

great session there boys, did the right thing giving the sea a break, just seems empty at the moment .two questions for you though why the faces blocked out and second where did you say you where again pm me if you like

[TubeNFish]

.... So basically they go back out to sea to feed and return next winter to spawn again??

That's right.

[trout hunter]

for spent fish they are very silver

[lumpy]

[quote="trout hunter"]for spent fish they are very silver[/quote]

not not really, kelts tend to be quite silvery, especially if they enter the river quite late, best indicator is the ratio of head to body..body usually looks very thin compared to the head

[petekd]

Thats done it, I'm going back to my roots and digging out the fly rod again. Wish I'd joined you guys yesterday instead of busting my balls on Morriscastle for fairly scant return. I just love measuring sub 20cm fish.....

[trout hunter]

cool thank god rivers open and the bass are on the way

[MAC]

definetly a kelt, but it's great to see so many around...

Nice fishing

Kev

[zeebass]

well done lads great ta see gud fishing activity around was thinkin of headn to avoca shortly fed up catching pin heads on the shore .just wondering were the trout landed on flies r worms.keep up the gud work

[Al and Jordan]

nice fishing alby and eri,,... aahhemmm,,, sorry. i ment mr incognito . i see the campaign has went nationwide. spotted this up the county antrim coast recently

[cw1]

Nice fishing lads, great pics!

[nicefish]

Well done on the salmon. We were fishing a river in Wicklow on Thursday could not believe how low the water was especially for the time of year., we blanked so we went to the lake and caught a couple of Rainbows 4 and a half lb and 3lb.

[johnfish]

for spent fish they are very silver

when they are ready to go back to sea they get silver ,all kelts this time of year will be silver,they look like salmon crossed with eels they are that skinny

[roger de dodger]

is he banned from the sea aswell fair play lads must be easy fishing compared to the east coast beaches at the moment