Off course there is the fly population which is plentiful making Sheelin a top dry fly venue, then there is the Mayfly which brings the lough to the boil. Trout and Pike Guide. Tel: 086 8984172 Email: trout@live.ie, John Mulvany  johnmulvanyfishing@gmail.com 086 2490076, D.C Angling & Guiding Services – contact David @ 087 3946989. Most fish were caught using a wide variety of spent gnat patterns. The lough doesn't just hold trout, there are substantial pike and a large population of course fish which becomes important to the trout angler later in the season. We are at the cusp of the sedge fishing but there is lots going on besides the sedges, there were good hatches of caenis in Kilnahard and West of Church Island, trout are feeding on daphnia in the open water, there are still the remnants of the mayfly season so that’s the greens as well as the spent, the buzzers are there in sheltered warmer bays and there are the terrestrials (beetles, moths, daddy long legs and a variety of flies). They have good access to the local grapevine, and will know where and when an area is coming into form. 22 trout were recorded for this week, with the heaviest trout at slightly over 4lbs caught using a Spent Gnat pattern at Holywell. 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This was his first visit to Sheelin in 18 years. The season begins in March at which time the trout are feeding mainly on freshwater shrimp and freshwater louse. We will send you notification and highlights for free. Lough Sheelin (from Irish: Loch Síodh Linn meaning "lake of the fairy pool") is a limestone freshwater lough (lake) in Ireland located in County Westmeath, County Meath and County Cavan near the village of Finea and the town of Granard County Longford. We would implore anglers and all other users to wear life jackets for their own safety as well as it being the law. These ingenious little sedge larvae might be the world’s first carpenters and stonemasons. For a person to fish with more than 2 rods at any one time. 087 4194156 Areas worth trying, depending on wind direction, are Sailors Garden, the south shore of Derrsheridan, Ross Bay and all of the north shore of the lough fro… Buy your permit online at: shop.fishinginireland.info or from any of the permit distributors listed here. Water  rarely gives second chances and a life jacket is just that – it saves your life. Lough Sheelin is situated in the North Midlands on the borders of Cavan, Meath . Water temperature at 16°C are a little high for good surface trout feeding. It’s not even clear if catching fish is actually the point’. Also, from early August onwards, a Sedge flies go through egg, larva, pupa and winged adult stages, all stages of which are potential food to a cruising trout. Like most places nowadays, Sheelin’s mayfly population is a shadow of its former self but still delivers one of the highlights of the lough’s season when after big hatches they end their days spread-eagled on the surface providing protein packed trout fodder. I will be happy to lead the campaign to eliminate the term ‘sedge’ from any reference connection to the caddis fly’. April signals the start of the olive and buzzer fishing. trout@live.ie 0868984172 Please feel free to contact But the amount of attention the lake gets from anglers is phenominal. Lough Sheelin’s mayfly season naturally tapers off around the middle of June but nonetheless there were still some hatches of the greens and some dances particularly around Crover and in Walker’s Bay although the fall of spent was sparse with a poor response from the trout as evening temperatures dropped and wind directions and speed continually changed tying the anglers here into … To fish or to attempt to take or to fish for, fish of any kind other than during the period from March 1st to October 12th in any year. Bog Bay, Sailors Garden and into Goreport. Towards the end of the week the lake shifted up a gear and most anglers were catching three or more trout averaging 3 to 4½ lbs. Perhaps it is because Ephemera danica presents a more picturesque profile as compared to the caddisfly which is not the most beautiful or delicate of bugs. There were some hatches of Murrough but no response from the fish. Despite the unwelcome chill Ephemera danica still made its presence felt here with a particularly impressive hatch around 3pm last Thursday followed by a heart stopping rise of fish. Most sedges hatch during the evening and at night time and unlike mayflies they don’t spend much time hanging around the surface after changing from pupa to adult. Lough Sheelin, a lake famous for its trout fishing, is just outside Mountnugent. Useful fly patterns are Hares Ear, Claret & Mallard, Sooty Olive; even a large black lure e.g. Trout stocks began to decrease in the early 1970s as pollution from various sources including agriculture entered the lake. If weather conditions are favourable there can be johnmulvanyfishing@gmail.com Lough Sheelin can be a very moody lake but that always adds to the challenge. THE END of the mayfly season on Lough Sheelin has arrived, evident by the significantly reduced number of boats on the lake. Finea sits on the river Inny which runs between Lough Sheelin and Lough Kinale under a mighty bridge that divides Cavan from Westmeath. Would you like to receive an email everytime a new Irish Angling Update goes online? Silty areas of the lake were the places to head for – Goreport, Bog Bay, Sailors Garden and down by Corru. The traditional sign that the trout are on sedge is a slashing rise so using an Elk Hair Caddis skittering them across the surface can sometimes provoke a violent rise. Caddis are part of the Trichoptera group of insects, with over 14,500 species recorded with thankfully only 20 for Sheelin or we would all get horribly confused. Its application to the caddis might have originated from the fact that the adult caddis often cling to sedge grass along the water’s edge. Fishing the greens and spent usually happened in late afternoon and ended around 6pm. Adults are moth-like insects with hairy wings which are folded back along the body. Lough Sheelin. Some catches were recorded for Wednesday when there were moderate north westerly winds blowing but the majority of success were restricted to before 6pm and a downpour around 9pm effectively pulled the plug of optimism for all anglers as the odd take on the murrough just stopped. On Sheelin last week anglers were treated to large hatches particularly in Orangefield and along the western shoreline. Lough Sheelin,Grey Duster Guiding. Damien Willis 22nd February 2016 Blog, Latest News Read more “Fly Fishing” A beginners guide. The numbers of anglers fishing this lake are increasing and anglers targeting the mayfly trout are being most successful using Mayfly nymphs and traditional mayfly patterns of grey, ginger, green and yellow. Normally we would boat 3-7 fish on an average day on Sheelin and up to ten fish depending on weather conditions. 1,182 likes. However, dapping can be productive in the first week or so of the mayfly hatch when the trout are ‘on the greens’. There is a good hatch of mayfly from the middle of May, which lasts sometimes to the second week in June. At this time of the year and into early June Spent Gnat … Similarly there were some reasonable numbers of caenis off Kilnahard shore but no fish on them. A persistently cold north to north easterly wind coupled with night time frosts caused a staggered and somewhat patchy start to Lough Sheelin’s 2020 mayfly season. The gradual easing of lockdown on May 18th is of little or no consolation to the majority of trout anglers, the Governments tentatively flagged date of July 20th effectively wipes out the best of the buzzer, olives, mayfly, murrough and even the bloodworm fishing here. Some species, like the Grousewing (common in Sheelin, where huge numbers hatched last Monday) have very long antennae. https://m.facebook.com/christopher.defillon?refid=0&fref=seaperch#, Michael Farrell Kenneth O’Keeffe Please put on and keep on that life jacket until you are back on dry land. As the weather temperatures swung from being July one day to January the next, buzzer fishing seemed unaffected. Lough Sheelin sparkled this week like a well polished jewel in Ireland’s angling crown. Gradually Lough Sheelin is moving from the mayfly and spent towards the sedge – reputed to be the cream of fishing on the lake, according to fisheries officer Brenda Montgomery. 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