Killylane Wednesday night 26th May 2010

Very windy and showery this evening. Water still very cold.

Level of reservoir is much lower now and a few fish showing.

I did'nt venture too far from the wall as fish were moving in that area.

Caught a good brown on a damsel nymph but (see pic)

After it was dispatched I spooned out of curiosity only to find it was crammed full of sweet corn!!.

Poachers at their work again probably after dark. Its about time DCAL made a better effort to stamp out this sort of thing or at least supply a phone number where bona fide anglers can report such incidents.

Port Muck Islandmagee

Warmest day of the year so far and very sunny. Decided not such a good day for the fly so headed off to Port Muck with my spinning rod. Walked the shoreline to the right of the car park and fished from the rocks facing Muck Island. I fished from low water at around 2pm to nearing high tide at about 6pm.




Few very small coalies taking lures almost as big as they were . Caught one or two on a small blue surface plug as well. A few others bait fishing and spinning but nobody catching anything of note. A small fishing boat tried to make it over the causeway which can be seen joining to the Muck island at low tide. Water was too low and he need a boat gaff to get relaunched.



A very scenic place and the and what with this and the great weather, lack of fish was no big disappointment











A lot of this plant growing among the rocks. I think its called thrift or sea pink. Certainly looks a lot better here than in a flowerpot somewhere.

Lough Mourne near Carrickfergus

Fished Lough Mourne near Carrickfergus this evening. Water levels quite high making a most of the bank inaccessible but still one or two fishable in places which required quite a long trek over and through heavy scrub to get to.

The air was thick with large black buzzers and smaller apple green ones. There was little wind and a flat calm extended into quite a large part of the lough. Not a fish to be seen moving when I arrived at about 6.30.

Later around 9pm a few small fish were rising to the buzzers but they were too far out to cover or rising under submerged trees making casting impossible

Nothing caught but still a pleasant evening except for the large swarms of biting midges in the shallows.

Evening at Killylane

Visited Killylane near dusk for a few throws with the fly. A beautiful evening and very calm.
There was a good hatch terrestrial hawthorn flys along the banks, some of which made it onto the water
just before any wind there was had disappeared. I walked the east bank and saw a fish steadily. Put on a single black hawthorn imitation with a drop of permafloat. Two minutes later he was in the bag.

A nice brownie of 1.75 lbs. which gave a good account of itself.

The wonderful sunset was probably due in part to volcanic ash in the atmosphere