Artist Greg Long's blog, or Ramblings of an Artist more interested in fishing most of the time...
The last fish of the season..
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)14 Oct 2008 at 3:07 pm
I got this 6 lb 12 oz beauty on the final day of the season on lough sheelin.
It took a silver invicta on the point.
I moved one other fish for the day but it just followed the flies without taking. Later I increased the fly size to try to induce a take, and this fish followed the flies again. This time I stopped the retrieve and waited for a few seconds, then lifted the rod. Thankfully he had t
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Following on from my previous post...
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)8 Aug 2008 at 6:38 am
I didn't win the next Saturdays competition sadly :(
I did win the following competition though :) It was fished on the upper Liffey river.
I have had quite a bit of sucess this year, catching well even though most anglers are struggling with the conditions. The loughs have not fished well at all this year, and with all the rain we have had the rivers are often unfishable. I have only failed to cat ... read more
two good days on the river...
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)17 Jun 2008 at 1:33 pm
I fished two competitions last weekend, both on rivers. I won the club competition on Saturday with the best three fish (a 3 fish bag limit, I caught about 8 takeable fish in total).
On Sunday it was the provincial championships, where I came second on my beat behind the overall winner. He and the beat winners of the other 4 beats will represent the province later in the year. I ended up as first ... read more
Bohernabreena reservoirs.
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)18 Apr 2008 at 2:45 pm
I had an enjoyable afternoons fishing Yesterday. I fished the two lakes up at Bohernabreena, where the river Dodder rises in the Dublin Mountains. I caught a few nice little brown trout in the upper lake, and then walked down to the lower lake and fished for the larger fish there, catching a few of them also.
I had plenty of fish without fishing hard, and found them to be hard fighting in the cold ... read more
two competitions, two fish, two different results.
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)14 Apr 2008 at 7:44 am
I have fished two competitions last weekend. It was hard work, and we had hail storms and cold northerly winds to contend with. I got two fish both days. On Saturday it was a four man team competition and we did not do well, only weighing in* (measuring, it is catch and release) 5 fish between the four of us, not nearly enough for success. I also lost a very good fish when it ran underneath the ... read more
Duckfly time
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)4 Apr 2008 at 6:36 am
I have had a couple of days out in the last week. With the mild spell of the last couple of days the buzzer or duckfly have started hatching. The fish are actively feeding on them and I have had some good catches. We stayed out until dark last night on lough Lene, there were some good trout feeding well in the wind lanes. They were difficult to catch though, ignoring dry flies and emergers. I ... read more
The season is well under way....
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)29 Mar 2008 at 5:56 am
I may take a trip down the country next week, but I have a couple of Fishing competitions in the next fortnight, so I will be busy with them. Of course I've had a couple of days out this week too..... sucessful ones on the lake. I am due to fish a river competition tomorrow, but with heavy rain yesterday, last night and more today, things are not looking good. The river will be high and coloured ... read more
Fishing for brown trout again...
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)22 Mar 2008 at 5:34 am
Iwas out fishing yesterday morning. It was the first time since my last post as the weather has been less than suitable. We had clear skys for a change yesterday, although with strong winds. The conditions were only just fishable with the fly rod. I did manage a few trout though. I hooked one fish about 1.5lbs, solidly in the root of the pectoral fin...I thought I had a big one on! The fish took a ... read more
Another successful day on the lough.
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)2 Mar 2008 at 4:39 pm
I fished the opening day on lough Lene in Westmeath yesterday. Conditions were hard with the weather cold and with strong blustery winds. I did manage to get one good fish, just short of 2lb, and missed another couple, the main reason being that it was difficult to control the flies in the surface in the strong blustery wind. The Claret Dabbler worked again, although I'd tried half the flies in ... read more
Time marches on....
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)28 Feb 2008 at 2:59 pm
I am away fishing on Saturday, March 1st. It is the start of the season for the majority of trout fisheries. I will let you know how I got on. ... read more
Back from Lough Corrib
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)18 Feb 2008 at 9:41 am
I enjoyed my trip to the west. Lough Corrib fished quite well, I managed one trout and a Salmon Kelt, but I also hooked 5 other trout that failed to stay on. In all I rose about 12 fish, but most were either coming short or following the flies in. It seemed to be a problem with others I spoke to. Noel got a nice fish at the other end of the boat and missed one other. All the fish came to either ... read more
Fishing and St. Valentine
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)13 Feb 2008 at 4:46 pm
I have everything organised for tommorrow, flowers,card, dinner reservation.......it is Valentines Day.....I am treating Christine as she deserves to be treated, she looks after me well..........
.........and I am dissapearing at 5 am the following morning, off to the West and fishing on Lough Corrib. She's not a bad wife at all.... Sometimes one has to make sacrifices, it would be a bit much to h ... read more
3 days to go....counting down to the new season
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)12 Feb 2008 at 6:30 am
Three days away from the first trip of the trout season. We will be off to Lough Corrib for the 15th. I am hoping the mild spell continues, if it does we may get some fly life on the lough. The trip to Corrib on the 15th is always speculative though. It is more about getting out than getting fish. I still have to organise myself for the trip. I have been busy painting and travelling, details o ... read more
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by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)4 Feb 2008 at 1:11 pm
We have had poor weather for the last week, wet windy and cold. The forecast is for much of the same for this week too. I had to drive over to the midlands yesterday for a meeting and conditions on the road were poor, gusting gale force winds, sleet, rain & snow, air temperature at midday of 1 degree celcius. I was not looking forward to the trip home, but luckily I was able to leave early a ... read more
Happy New Year.
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)4 Jan 2008 at 7:33 pm
Happy New Year, and tight Lines for 2008.
I haven't been posting since New Years Day, I have been a little busy painting. I am also in negotiations for a commission to design a number of concepts for promotion and packaging. It might be profitable. I have to start work on another commissioned work over the weekend too as the client wants it by the end of the month. I will have my work cut out for t ... read more
He's Back!
by noreply@blogger.com (Greg Long Artist)31 Oct 2007 at 5:58 am
Hello everyone again......I got my blog back...
Nothing to do with Blogger though, I accidently deleted the whole blog while trying to delete a spam comment..and thankyou blogger for sorting it out for me.
I have started a new Art-Painting blog here so I will probably just post my fishing exploits on this blog now....mind you it seems that it's mainly fishing on this blog anyway! ... read more