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.