May update - Prime pike time!

The last two weeks were really exciting up here, with several groups of anglers enjoying their stay in Boyle and some fantastic fishing too.

First of were regular guests Stefano and Roberto from Italy who caught over 40 pike with spinning methods during their three day trip.

Then last week we were guiding international journalists Henning Stuehring from Germany and Gernot Heigl from Austria to do some fly-fishing for pike. They were here for five days of fishing, which they will report on later on in an article in the German magazine "Fisch & Fang". They also filmed some fine footage of the weeks fishing. The week started off on a High, when fly-fishing enthusiast Gernot hooked and landed his first meter pike nearly straight away on the first day of their trip. Many smaller fly-caught pike followed during the week both from boats and also while fishing from belly-boats (float-tubes).

Meanwhile a group of 4 anglers from France also started their weeks fishing with all of the anglers getting pike into the boats. The week culminated however, when on the third day Jean-Yves hooked and landed what turned out to be the biggest fish of the season so far! Well Done to Jean-Yves and also to our guide Brendan for boating such a cracking fish!
The Beauty measured 107cms and weighed in at exactly 28lbs.
This was a nice early Birthday present for the French angler who celebrated his Birthday the next day. On the same day we also boated pike of 97, 92 and 76 cms plus an amount of small pike, providing some great fishing for the group on their first ever trip with us.