Rathbeggan Lakes

hawkhead

Down there today. Weather was a bit crap but the fishing was enjoyable.

The lake was topped up with new arrivals today which made things a bit lively.

bitemybanger

Can't beat a bit of stockie bashin now and then.
A nice pic of me on the wall in there from waaaaay back. Not tellin ya which one tho:p

ironbluedun

bitemybanger wrote: »

Can't beat a bit of stockie bashin now and then.
A nice pic of me on the wall in there from waaaaay back. Not tellin ya which one tho:p

the one of the lad that has no fish?

coolwings

ironbluedun wrote: »

the one of the lad that has no fish?

Ooooooh ..... you're mean !!!

experimenter

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/rathbegganlakes

ironbluedun

letting them in nice and gently i see..... all the same there must be shillings in this rainbow stockie fishery lark...

skipz

ironbluedun wrote: »

letting them in nice and gently i see..... all the same there must be shillings in this rainbow stockie fishery lark...

I used to fish there but gave up on it. Its more about making money then good fishing.
Where else would you find people trying to fish, and then have a 50+ lads with airsoft guns running around at the same time???

experimenter

That's a pity.

I have seen a few places like this... where you are fly fishing and there's 10 guys hammering the water with spinners 20ft from you.

ironbluedun

experimenter wrote: »

That's a pity.

I have seen a few places like this... where you are fly fishing and there's 10 guys hammering the water with spinners 20ft from you.

one of the reasons why i very rarely go anywhere near those places..........they give stockie fisheries a bad name.

coolwings

The rainbow fisheries that buy the more expensive triploid rainbows usually look after them and are generally restricted to fly only, possibly with a "bait pool" for the all methods newbies.
You will know a triploid when you hook it!!

Evac105

Any chance of an explanation of the difference between a "normal" and "triploid" rainbow there CW?

experimenter

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Triploid fish look, swim, jump, and taste like normal fish, except for one important difference—they never develop normal eggs or sperm and are unable to reproduce.[/FONT]

The triploid is a sterile trout that spends its entire life gorging on feed rather than thinking about creating offspring. These fish can grow to trophy size if not caught in the first year and if the lakes have plenty of feed.

bayliner

do the normal rainbows reproduce?? i always thought they were all the same and didnt, didnt know about the normal/triploid difference! would you know by looking at them which was which?

experimenter

""You will know a triploid when you hook it!!"""

I agree, I am thinking Rathcon lakes :eek:

coolwings

Incredibly hard fighting, and spanking perfect condition, all season round.
Imagine hooking into a railway locomotive .... it's something like that!

I had a 4lb-er last season, hooked at about 20 metres, a 30 metre run, stop for 2-5 seconds then another 30 metre run, and then a third 20 metre run followed by jumps. I had about 130 yards of backing and the shooting head, and the line left on the spool was getting very thin!
It was like a 6-7lb fresh run salmon performance-wise.
Some of the rainbow fisheries use triploids.
Rathcon, Annamoe that I know directly. Others do too but I'll let people with directly acquired knowledge name them.

The difference is at it's most marked in early spring when normal rainbows are blackened in colouration and sometimes spawn bound.

wgsten

A fishery that i fish on and has hard fighting Rainbow Trout is Curragh Springs Fishery. I recently wrote a report on this fishery which can be read here : http://bit.ly/a2z4CD
wgsten

bitemybanger

Will be making a trip there. Looks and sounds fantastic.
Great review wgsten.

coolwings

I will do likewise over the winter.

ironbluedun

wgsten wrote: »

A fishery that i fish on and has hard fighting Rainbow Trout is Curragh Springs Fishery. I recently wrote a report on this fishery which can be read here : http://bit.ly/a2z4CD
wgsten

Smashing report there. Seems like a good spot.

stevenmu

bayliner wrote: »

do the normal rainbows reproduce?? i always thought they were all the same and didnt, didnt know about the normal/triploid difference! would you know by looking at them which was which?

Yep, they're a fully normal wild species in their own right, they're just not native to Ireland so they're bred in farms. They're native and in the wild in the US, they have them in their rivers etc the same way we have brown trout. They also have steelhead, which are rainbows which have adapted to sea migration the same way our sea-trout do. The same in the New Zealand apparently, and interestingly they farm brown trout over there and use them for stocked lakes because they farm so well and grow to such sizes in the NZ climate, the same way we farm rainbows and use them for stocked lakes here.

stevenmu

I agree on Rathcon, excellent fighting fish in there. Hadn't heard of Curragh Springs will have to give it a go.

DVD-Lots

Was a Curragh Springs today, quality place, quality fish, will definately be back.