The Fishing Adventurer

Anyone see 'The Fishing Adventurer' programme on discovery over the weekend?

The guy was in Ireland & fishing with a couple of different guys from this site!! (JimH & Cooke) Fished for bass, trout, mullet & pike.

Looked like a really good show. Fair play to all involved.

Saw it a few weeks ago,he was spinning for pike in a stagnant canal in New York city under a small flyover.The place was full of beer cans and rubbish but he still managed to hook a few really big pike,looked like a well dodgy spot to go fishing though.

Saw it a few weeks ago,he was spinning for pike in a stagnant canal in New York city under a small flyover.The place was full of beer cans and rubbish but he still managed to hook a few really big pike,looked like a well dodgy spot to go fishing though.

Sounds like where I used to fish for Trout in the river Tolka :lol:

are there still trout in the Tolka?

I didn't see the Irish episode. Saw one in Costa Rica and it seemed really good.

On the Tolka, I think there are still a few Trout, but the River was effected really badly by a pollution spill a couple of years ago. Wiped most of the trout out.

Kev

One of the interesting things about the Irish episode was the guy catching bass on a bucktail jig & wild brownies on a flourescent plug!

Re: the Tolka, didn't fish it last year but have had fish to 4lb in years gone by.
It was stocked this year with a few thousand fingerlings so looking good for the future.
It gets stocked with brownies around 1 - 2lb several times a year.
Best time to fish it is at the end of the season, too many undesirables around in the early part of the season.....

I caught my 1st trout there as a kid!!

What part of it do they stock......what are the best parts to fish?

I caught my 1st trout there as a kid!!

What part of it do they stock......what are the best parts to fish?

Got my first trout there myself!
Back then the best ones used to be in the grounds of the Abbotstown Research Laboratories.
It would be a case of fishing in amongst the bushes & legging it as soon as the security jeeps came :wink:

I'll send you a PM with a few details

The episode with Jim and Brian is being repeated TODAY, Sunday 27th at 12:00 noon on Discovery Real Time +1.

Hi Guys

Thanks for the support. I spent that week working with Cyril and his team -driving, guiding and looking after them from Co. Cavan, Carlow and Kilkenny and then to the sunny south east and SEAi. Unfortunately the SSE was not very sunny and we had a tough time bass fishing as was seen. Making tv is not my kinda thing!

It was also a very challenging week as the program was made in english, french and Canadian french so three takes were neccessary. But the experience thought me a lot and i have subsequently made another DVD on bass fishing. This year its one of saltwater fly fishing i hope!

All the equipment was supplied by myself at SEAi - specialst saltwater and freshwater lures, rods, lines etc. Its an aspect of SEAi currently under development for the destination and home angler.

best
Jim

All the equipment was supplied by myself at SEAi

I hope that rod he fell on in the river wasn't too expensive :D

Jim whats Cyril really like???? He looked tired when spinning for Bass form the shore. was he given out??

Oh great show, have been watching it for awhile now!!

I saw that episode a while back. thought Cyril looks tired the day on the shore but he really came to life on the boat when he started hauling in Bass. Great show, love his enthusiasm, think this episode showed off the quality of Bass fishing in the SSE. Well done JimH.

Do you know guys he was tired. Ireland was the second last of the series they were heading to Norway next i think for the last show. So if you can imagine the following

Three very nice guys of very diverse personalities, one (French) a very good and no bull fisherman who was the star and creator of the show, one (Canadian) who was head camera man and very easy going and was the director etc, and the third (from Quebec) who was second camera and sound. The film crew had little or no fishing knowledge but simply loved making films. They were thrown into the melting pot of close living proximity, date pressure, weather pressure, fish not performing pressure, personality clashing, flight catching and missing, schedule interuppting world of fishing programs. And they did an excellent job on the previous 14 shows in a world destination hopping trip. Im glad they included Ireland.

I had been approached by several other 'fishing TV journos' in the past and had declined the 'opportunities'. When i spoke to Cyril i wanted to work with him immediately. He is a true professional and hard worker aswell as been a very capable fisherman what really impressed me was his practical and honest approach to the fishing and the programs.

I never felt that the program was going to be about 'him' and his ego but rather the places he visited and the fishing good or bad he experienced. We had a tough few days in Wexford the weather turned cold abruptly and i think yes he was a bit cross but only because of our bad luck. He had been well informed by other european jounalists who had visited so his expectations were high too. I was hugely dissapointed of course knowing that the fishery can perform like a world class destination except when the bloody cameras are on it!!!

But due to his (and the crews) hard work and perserverance which is something to behold (i thought i was bad) we managed to show the realities of bass fishing in this country - you have good days and you have bad days. Plus we have other diverse fishing opportunities .I wished the bass section had performed a little better for him (and me) and most of all for what can be recognised as a top class sportfish.

I learned a lot about myself, fishing, personality, TV and the creative process. Thanks guys!

It was a brillent episode, summed up fishing in Ireland, you can be on the best mark in the country and if the fish arent playing ball you will blank, and be tired and annoyed. and then when the fish are up for it its smashing sport, you catch loads and you go home very happy.