After a very stormy and windy night across the country.
A window of opportunity opened for me today to fly fish Lough Ramor for winter pike. I launched my boat from the slip way at Virginia College and motored up the lake to fly fish some of my usual marks. The water itself was very coloured with less than 14″ of clarity due to the excessive rain fall the night before. The afternoon temperature’s peaked at 7.5C with a bitterly cold westerly wind making the day feel more like 3C.
I had caught nothing on my first two drifts so I decided to venture down the lake a little keeping my boat about 80 yards away from the shoreline. I soon hooked a nice double that fought with me for 14 minutes. This fine pike was hooked on a Stuart Wylie self tied barbless Pike Fly. Stuart lives in N.Ireland and is a keen fly fisherman and fly tyer, fishing the Lough Neagh Rivers for brown trout and dollaghan. Over the last 8 years or so Stuart has been targeting pike on the fly. His pike flies range from bait fish to attractor style patterns, both large and small he is also Ireland’s representative for the Pike Fly Fishing association (pffa) – Many thanks Staurt your flies worked a treat for me today.
If you would like more information about this article or wish to inquire about a guided days fly fishing for Pike on Lough Ramor, please feel free to contact me.
Damien Willis +353(0)86 8012546
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