These photo's were taken many years ago before digital cameras were available as you might well of guessed!! but I couldn't leave them out as this brings back some very happy moments from two trips to the Emerald Ilse's and some big nets of bream.
This was a trip which was organized by the Irby Angling National squad and sponsored by the Irish tourist board, the trip was arranged for a week with a total of three competitions to be fished on two lakes.
The first was on lake Killykeen and the other two where on Lake Ramor.There were five trophies up for grabs , one for each match and the others were for the best aggregate weight , and the best specimen fish.
With the knowledge I had from previous visits there and the enormous amount of bait you needed at that time, I was able to win the first two competitions and in doing so took the specimen fish trophy, and also finished with the top aggregate weight, therefore returned home to collect four of the five trophies not bad eh!!
My best weight of the week was 92lbs of bream this was the photo of that catch were I am lifting them out. Perhaps the one thing I should have done is taken another net, so if you intend going there it would be wise to double up with everything.
Just for the record the first match was won, on Lake Killykeen using the pole with 52lbs of bream using an eight gram pole float in approximately 15 foot of water, which you needed in order to get the bait down to the fish and hold it still.
The other was won on swim feeder tactics at approximately 40yards out, I chose to fish on the swim feeder because the Lake was shallow, both matches were won with a cocktail of worm and red maggots, fished over beds of sweetcorn and loads of casters, mixed in a fifty- fifty mix of brown and white bread crumb, nothing special!!
I can recall being laughed at when I boarded the coach with my over sized lunch box. But I think I had the last laugh, It just goes to show the more you know the more you catch! one things for sure is that if you sit amongst the vast shoals of bream in Ireland, is that you will certainly find it difficult to over feed them.
To sum it up this was a very memorable trip bye for now.
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