Gerry Teggart is a professional guide who offers his services on Ireland and Northern Ireland's large loughs - Sheelin, Melvin, Mask, Erne and Corrib to name a few, justly famous for the quality of their fishing amidst beautiful surroundings. The fertile limestone loughs produce trout of impressive size and power. Gerry has fished and guided the loughs since he was a young lad and few people know more about fly fishing these special places. Gerry is fully qualified and insured.
Fish with Gerry to target truly wild brown trout in stunning surroundings on some of Ireland's most famous loughs. He grew up in a family that loved fishing the wild loughs and was regulatly to be found on Lough Sheelin, one of Irelands great limestone loughs. He is a well-known face in Ireland's angling circles. A top class boatman such as Gerry is a necessuty on these wild loughs as are large making it hard to locate fish, tricky to navigate, and can be dangerous if the angler does not know the area.
The fishing can be challenging on the loughs, for like most fishing the lough angler is very much at the mercy of the weather, however it when it comes right the fishing can be very rewarding and many real trophy trout are landed each season. A wild fish of a lifetime is always a possibility on these waters.
On the loughs there have three main methods of fly fishing: Wet Fly, Dry Fly and Nymphing. The conditions, time of year, and fly hatches this will dictate the most successful method - and Gerry has mastery of all three. Wet flies tend to be the go-to method throughout the season but anglers need to be able to switch at a moment's notice for some of the early season fishing with nymphs, buzzers and lake olives can only be described as phenomenal, and dry fly sport can also be excellent.
For tackle, Gerry would recomend single–handed trout rods ranging from 9’6’’ to 10’ for dry fly fishing or 10’ to 11’ feet in length for wet fly fishing. The AFTM weights range from #5 through to #7. The heavier weight rods enable the use of lines other than a floating line when conditions dictate. Gerry helped with the development of specialist lough fly rods the Cadence 10' and 11’ #6 ranges with his good friend well known fly angler Stevie Munn.
Lough Sheelin. Perhaps Ireland’s finest wild brown trout lough, Lough Sheelin (from the Irish Loch Siodh Linn, meaning "lake of the fairy pool") is a limestone freshwater lough covering an area of 1900 hectares located in the Irish Midlands. This is fabulous fishing water and there is a really good chance of landing a fish of a lifetime, although anglers have to work hard and at times the lough can be tricky – as with all fishing. Sheelin has always held a lot of trout – by some estimates more than 100,000 – and a good head of large trout in the 4-8lbs range. It is certainly one of Gerry’s favourite places to be. The lough has widespread shallows, rocky shores, and wooded islands, and it is in these places where the best trout are to be found.
Lough Erne. Located in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Lough Erne has two halves. The smaller southern lake is called the Upper Lough as it is higher up the river, while the bigger northern lake is called the Lower Lough. The lovely town of Enniskillen lies on the short stretch of river between the lakes. Lower Lough Erne is renowned for its wild brown trout fishing; it is a very large expanse of water, 15 miles long, so it pays to know where to look for the lies. Gerry tends to favour the long rocky shallows, numerous bays, and its many named islands. The Lough is renowned for its Mayfly fishing from the middle of May continuing into the middle of June. There is excellent spent-fly fishing to be had. July on Lough Erne sees a second hatch of Mayfly and Olives, which can on occasion fish better than in May. Later in Summer Erne sees a big hatch of Sedges and trout can be seen rising freely to take them. Later in the season a change of tactics may pay in August and September, moving into deeper water to target fish feeding heavily on Daphnia and Fry.
Lough Melvin. Melvin sits in the Northwest of Ireland. It is large at 8 miles long and 3 miles wide, and avid angling readers will know it is described in “A Man May Fish" by T.C Kingsmill Moore who regularly fished it and wrote about it and the winning flies in his famous book. Lough Melvin has not one but two unique sub-species of trout, with which to enchant the fly fisher. Gillaroo and Sonaghan trout only exist in Melvin. The lough also holds good numbers of Brown Trout, Char and large predatory Ferox trout. And as if that is not enough, the lough gets a run of Salmon from the renowned Drowes river that runs out of the Lough to the sea, which are often caught on trout flies while chasing trout. The Gillaroo trout eats primarily snail, and is so named (from the Irish "Giolla Rum" which means red fellow) due to the bright golden colour of its flanks with distinct red spots. They are mainly bottom feeding fish, but are caught frequently on fly patterns on the surface. The Sonaghan trout is a light brown colour with large black spots, with fins also deep brown. Sonaghan are found in open deep water where they often live in shoals and quite often you would hook 2 to 3 on a cast of wet fly drifting from a boat. They are an immensely powerful fish for their size. The humble Brown trout reaches 5lbs and more, and are found mostly in the many bays on Lough Melvin, but they can also venture out into open water. March and April sees the start of the fishing for Trout with hatches of duck fly and olives, with fishing consisting of small wet fly patterns to match the hatch. May and June sees the start of the manic Mayfly season with trout starting to move in open deep water. The months of July, August and September can see some excellent fishing for trout feeding heavily on Daphnia and Caddis to lay down energy reserves for the winter and spawning season ahead.
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Lough Sheelin. Perhaps Ireland’s finest wild brown trout lough, Lough Sheelin (from the Irish Loch Siodh Linn, meaning "lake of the fairy pool") is a limestone freshwater lough covering an area of 1900 hectares located in the Irish Midlands. This is fabulous fishing water and there is a really good chance of landing a fish of a lifetime, although anglers have to work hard and at times the lough can be tricky – as with all fishing. Sheelin has always held a lot of trout – by some estimates more than 100,000 – and a good head of large trout in the 4-8lbs range. It is certainly one of Gerry’s favourite places to be. The lough has widespread shallows, rocky shores, and wooded islands, and it is in these places where the best trout are to be found.
Lough Erne. Located in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Lough Erne has two halves. The smaller southern lake is called the Upper Lough as it is higher up the river, while the bigger northern lake is called the Lower Lough. The lovely town of Enniskillen lies on the short stretch of river between the lakes. Lower Lough Erne is renowned for its wild brown trout fishing; it is a very large expanse of water, 15 miles long, so it pays to know where to look for the lies. Gerry tends to favour the long rocky shallows, numerous bays, and its many named islands. The Lough is renowned for its Mayfly fishing from the middle of May continuing into the middle of June. There is excellent spent-fly fishing to be had. July on Lough Erne sees a second hatch of Mayfly and Olives, which can on occasion fish better than in May. Later in Summer Erne sees a big hatch of Sedges and trout can be seen rising freely to take them. Later in the season a change of tactics may pay in August and September, moving into deeper water to target fish feeding heavily on Daphnia and Fry.
Lough Melvin. Melvin sits in the Northwest of Ireland. It is large at 8 miles long and 3 miles wide, and avid angling readers will know it is described in “A Man May Fish" by T.C Kingsmill Moore who regularly fished it and wrote about it and the winning flies in his famous book. Lough Melvin has not one but two unique sub-species of trout, with which to enchant the fly fisher. Gillaroo and Sonaghan trout only exist in Melvin. The lough also holds good numbers of Brown Trout, Char and large predatory Ferox trout. And as if that is not enough, the lough gets a run of Salmon from the renowned Drowes river that runs out of the Lough to the sea, which are often caught on trout flies while chasing trout. The Gillaroo trout eats primarily snail, and is so named (from the Irish "Giolla Rum" which means red fellow) due to the bright golden colour of its flanks with distinct red spots. They are mainly bottom feeding fish, but are caught frequently on fly patterns on the surface. The Sonaghan trout is a light brown colour with large black spots, with fins also deep brown. Sonaghan are found in open deep water where they often live in shoals and quite often you would hook 2 to 3 on a cast of wet fly drifting from a boat. They are an immensely powerful fish for their size. The humble Brown trout reaches 5lbs and more, and are found mostly in the many bays on Lough Melvin, but they can also venture out into open water. March and April sees the start of the fishing for Trout with hatches of duck fly and olives, with fishing consisting of small wet fly patterns to match the hatch. May and June sees the start of the manic Mayfly season with trout starting to move in open deep water. The months of July, August and September can see some excellent fishing for trout feeding heavily on Daphnia and Caddis to lay down energy reserves for the winter and spawning season ahead.
