Sligo SWFF 12.3.2013

People:me

Duration:3 hrs

Tide:0.2m low

Weather:bright

1 sea trout -about 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 lb

not much to report - very low tide - so had a mussel gathering detour and arrived about an hour after low to find unexpectedly high winds that made the spot i had planned to fish a nightmare - made long hoof accross soft sand to a new spot - seen a nice fish jumping and a seal and a few birds fishing so looked good. At one stage i was turning to walk back in out of the water and felt the gentlest pull on the line - though it was probably a wee bit of floating weed, but had another cast into the same area just in case. hit into a a fish pretty much straight away, serious fight - by far the hardest fighting fish this year - including a few spectacular leaps right in front of me.

fished on for another while in search of another, but that was it for the day






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A lovely trout, well done.

Nice fish well done

Lovely looking fish there, it looks in good condition too . Well done . Did you ever get flats on the fly.

nice. well done.

Beauty! those ST's really give a scrap on a fly!

Stunning fish ,I hear there is a few been caught down my way at the moment.I think ill focus a bit more on these this year.

stunning fish davy

Your doing well on the trout,what ye getting em on,is it estuary or open coast?

Eoghan - this is an estuary , but very close to the open sea, have got most of them on a blue/white and grizzeld feather sandeel pattern - size 6, and also a few on a home mad popper - just a bit of foam superglued onto a fly with a holographic tinsel body and a bit of black and blue bucktail..

it really does seem to bring the fish up, esp. with a larger foam head - but you do miss a lot of fish on it.

Nice fish, worth the trudge through soft sand

Nice work..!

Great fish and a lovely way to catch it.

nice stuff davy,so looking foward to getting home and trying for a few trout,,id say they are still well soft yet

At them again today bryan, got 3 including two at about 1 1/2lb - one of these was a bit skinny , but generally they have been good condition - though i have noticed that some are very heavily sea liced.
hit into a shoal of them at one point - must have rose about 6 in rapid succession but every one came short - with just a sharp tug but no hookup - exciting as hell tho!

lovely fish well done