Yes you did Jonathan!!!! And your fleas were on my casts regularly too!!! Don't know if you remember or not, but we met at a stretch of the Towy one night when we used to fish it in the early 00's……. you showed me how to fish the tail of a certain pool with a small pumphouse by a weir and how a ticket from the land owner was "Much bloody cheaper"!!!!!!!! So many metres of fly line out etc etc...… We had a discussion about how some of your native tagged sewin showed up in my home river and how you were to head over to investigate. Lot of water under the bridge now eh!!!!!!!!! Take care boyo!!! And I remember you once say that a good flea had to have a "BIT OF YELLO"!!!!!!!

Any link available to the article @ Jonathan Jones? Would love to check it out.

You have to try hell river in Clare its the Best looking river ever and it holds a beutiful head of wild Brown trout, salmon and some times sea trout! Its beutiful and you wont regret it. Im only 13 so you dont have to take my Word but its fab

Thanks @Colin what a year for us to visit but we had a great time regardless

Thank you for the comment @Tim McCaffrey . Good to know the fishing in May can be so great!

@@OnTheWaterMedia Just a clarification! The river is the Owenmore. It's in the village of Cloghane and like most Irish rivers, fish run in and out all year round. Big fish run early on most Irish rivers but not exclusively. I've had big, fresh sea trout from Lough Currane in August and smaller but not finnock on most Kerry rivers. Good fish travel in with the finnock as do salmon. Not unusual to stand on the bridge which splits the two pools fished in this excellent video and watch 100 sea trout and a dozen salmon waiting to run. Owenmore is much more than a grilse river in salmon terms. Double figure summer fish not uncommon. Fantastic place. There's an even smaller river on the road in which carries very big salmon. Fortunately, the Owenmore is difficult to fish (and poach) which is why it's still so good. I reckon, the best small river system in Ireland. Frank watches it like a hawk. As good a fishery manager as there is in Ireland.

Thank you!

Thanks for watching! We are hoping to get back hopefully in the next year or two to try our luck again, will have to research dallagan.

yes i know its so annoying

@@markdeer952 if You don't your dry skin will take more scales off the fish, allowing infection or parasites in easier, trout have delicate scales, best practice in catch and release is to remember this when handling

TBH my hands are never dry when fly fishing. It's a constant struggle to try and get a roll up made.

While I enjoyed the video, it does not represent fishing in Ireland accurately, there is tons of free fishing, any method, all across the country and it is possible to land sea trout of 10 /12 pounds, and some even bigger, the same for brown trout.

It's a small pool and a line flying back and forth will spook the fish. I've fished it a bit and one wrong move kills the fishing.

Yes you are correct bass seatrout an salmon heavily poached in brandon bay

Not sure, we didn't do any coarse fishing while there, though we did give pike a try, without any luck.

Catch and release is way more prevalent in the USA than Ireland. The paddies should take a queue.

We appreciate the concern @MrBrysie. As someone who also works at a trout hatchery I can attest that during trout stockings it's necessary to toss trout in particular up a bit so they slap the water. This aerates them and snaps them back to life and they tend to take off rapidly afterwards. If you don't, they tend to roll over belly up and die unless you right them. Some people even stock trout via airplane with minimal loss of life: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLBgqM-bla3Gd2g.html .

@@OnTheWaterMedia ok appreciate your professional viewpoint but chucking them back is not something that I would not do . And what about lifting them out of the water on the end of the line?