May 2026 – Claretbumbler

Heatwave

Our weather has finally turned warmer after months of cold. Unfortunately, it has gone from one extreme to another and today we had high temperatures and cloudless skies over Mayo. Far from ideal conditions, but I had two clients who had booked a day on lough Carra, so undeterred, we set off for the clearContinueContinue reading “Heatwave”

Lough style fishing, casting and retrieving

I want to talk about casting and retrieving in this post. For me, these are both the most important and, at the same time, the most neglected aspects of Irish lough style fly fishing. Why so you may well ask? I am lucky enough to know and fish with some of the finest anglers inContinueContinue reading “Lough style fishing, casting and retrieving”

Not yet!

While I had a reasonably good session fishing for roach in one of the rivers which flow into one of the big loughs in my area, I had heard big bream swam into the same pools once we were into the month of May. Well, here we are in the merry month so it wasContinueContinue reading “Not yet!”

Yellow Stimi

It is here at last – the merry month of May. Everything is a bit late this season, but mayfly are now beginning to hatch out on the western loughs at it is high time we fishers were about our business. While we all love our dry fly fishing, the good old wets have theirContinueContinue reading “Yellow Stimi”