by Guest » Fri May 13, 2005 10:56 am
well as i said i've only started this week, but both nights were in kilkee bay. just between the pier and the golf club, it's the ideal place for a newbie to the game to get a hang of it, there's loads of room behind you for the back cast, and you have immediate deep water at your feet, about 20 feet in places. there's loads of other spots around the bay, further up, beyond the golf course, and along the west end by the pollack holes...... besides being ideal pollack ground, there are bass taken there in the summer months(but i haven't heard of anyone trying them on the fly) and there are some great mullet around by the pier, i saw 3 good fish swimming past near the surface on the may bank holiday. a couple of weeks back i saw either salmon or sea trout throwing themselves about aa hundred yards from the shore, but i reckon if you hoooked one in the bay it would be a total fluke, there's no river for them to run up. however doonbeg is only fifteen minutes out the road and that river gets a good run of fish i've been told......i'm gonna give the area a serious lash with the fly this summer, i reckon it has untold potential for the saltwater fly fisherman