Moorbrooke Fishery

adriany · Moorbrooke Fishery

Headed to Co.Derry/L'Derry this morning to fish what used to be my regular, Moorbrooke Fishery.

I arrived at the lodge around 11am and a warm greeting as usual from William (Fishery Owner). We chatted about recent events and how things were going for them. After a good chat and some friendly banter I set up the 9ft 6in Greenheart with a floating line. I saw a load of fish taking off the surface so striaght away I put on a size 14 CDC F Fly. First cast I rose a fish but missed it, as was the case for the next few casts until I worked out the way the fish were taking the dries. Sometimes when a fish comes to your dry it aint always that it will take the fly straight away. Instead they drown the fly for a mili second then take it as it just goes under the surface. 1st fish was a lovely fish of around 2lb well marked with good fins. I took a further 6 fish on the F fly so I thought right I know what the fish are taking lets try buzzers to see if they were interested in these.

I changed to around a 20ft leader made of flurocarbon. I set up a dropper about 5ft from the point fly. I attached 2 of my quill buzzers in size 10 and cast at rising fish. I tend to fish my buzzers with a slow slow retreive but they wanted them static so after a few casts I nailed my first fish on the buzzer. Another 2 fish were returned after this on this method.

Ok they wanted my buzzers now for a change again lol. I took off the buzzers and replaced them with a GHHE and a PTN which had been successful for me at Woodford the previous day. 2 fish came to the GHHE.

For the last hour I fished a black sleetch type lure on the floater and 1st cast I hit into a big fish. As some people know I like to get the fish in and released as quickly as possible and I use 6lb flurocarbon so in reality it should cope with most situations. After a good scrap I released a fish of probably around the 10lb mark. A few more casts proved fruitless until I got the slightest tap on the lure. Then another tap tap tap. I lifted into what I thought was a small rainbow only to find that I had indeed hooked a Perch of around 1lb. Id never seen a perch in real life before and I was amazed at the beautiful colours these coarse fish have. The bright red fins and the big spikey dorsal fin.

A great days fishing yet again but by god was the weather up there harse, I endured rain, sleet, snow and hail for my quarry but it didnt dampen my enthusiasm.

fossil-fish

Great report Adrian and one hell of a catch. We had hail stones like golf balls here so the weather was certainly something to endure.

Perch really are a beautiful fish and a pound is a good one. Where they occur they readily take a fly.

FIREY BROWN · moorebrook

Super report Adrian

glad you`re making the best of all that free time you have on hands now mate and hooking fish,,ahhhhhhhh its a hard old life eh Very Happy

,, brilliant bag of fish for the day and you say mate its not easy in this weather,, is there any end to this cold spell we`ve had just about everything this month,,,

Regards
FIREY BROWN

Watty's Rock

Great report mate and what a good day by the sound of things. Sorry I couldn't make it. Maybe get up there with you again sometime in the near future. I had to endure paint charts and looking at wallpaper all day. Crying or Very sad