River Liffey, Lucan Demesne.

baller123

Anyone know whats in the river besides Pike and Trout? Anyone fished it?

Flysfisher

baller123 wrote: »

Anyone know whats in the river besides Pike and Trout? Anyone fished it?

Is it not controlled by Dublin salmon anglers?

baller123

Nope, Its not controlled by any anglers club anymore

kildare lad

im sure there'd b roach and perch as well...i only fished it once and did see a few roach, call into the tackle shop in lucan and im sure pat would give ya a head up!!

Bio Mech

There are some roach and the odd perch alright. Its not a stretch I like personally. Was good many moons ago but not now IMO. Its very accessible and as there is no club if suffers by being fished by many of a, hmmm, continental persuasion shall we say. it also tends to have a lot of brown scum/slime on the rocks and the mud/detritus never smells very good.

Whether that's from a pipe or two running in or from the sewage plant I cant say. Fingal swear the outflow from the sewage plant is clean but I am not so sure. I have swept under rocks and in the sediment a few times and the species spread suggests its not as clean as I would like.

baller123

Know what the pike fishing there is like?

killintime

s some ellls to

baller123

I caught a 6 pound and 10 pound pike down there on smelt. anyone know if anyone else has had any luck?

killintime

nice to see there still around

baller123

Yeah, haven't got a roach, trout or even an eel down there yet

killintime

nor there a good stock of roach there

emo72

Bio Mech wrote: »

There are some roach and the odd perch alright. Its not a stretch I like personally. Was good many moons ago but not now IMO. Its very accessible and as there is no club if suffers by being fished by many of a, hmmm, continental persuasion shall we say. it also tends to have a lot of brown scum/slime on the rocks and the mud/detritus never smells very good.

Whether that's from a pipe or two running in or from the sewage plant I cant say. Fingal swear the outflow from the sewage plant is clean but I am not so sure. I have swept under rocks and in the sediment a few times and the species spread suggests its not as clean as I would like.

Sorry lads what issues arise when the continental lads fish that stretch? I walk that way a lot and it's always busy with anglers. Lots of lads would be foreign.

killintime

there alot of foreigner fishing evey were but you dont mind that as long as there doin catch aand release

Boyne fisher

Was there once never went again it twas terrible

baller123

What did you use?

Boyne fisher

Float maggots plumbed depth spinned for pike no one caught anything it is a pity

killintime

ya but it nice to get out for a few hrs thow

kildare lad

i caught two trout spinning down there.. both under a pound, every swim that i fished was filthy wit rubbish, maggot bags, tins of sweetcorn etc, fuccking makes my blood people cant tidy up after themselves!!

Boyne fisher

Exactly y I never went back and the fishing was terrible

killintime

ya they shud learn to clean up after them selfs only takes afew min to do

Boyne fisher

Exactly leaving stuff around makes ur blood boil

baller123

When I was down there there was people legering maggots and chopped worms, they caught a good bag of trout and eel.
I used dead bait (smelt) wobbled and caught two pike 6 and 10 pound.

pikeman99

There's plenty of pike there, I live near it. I've been fishing it for over a year and I've had plenty of pike, a lot of jacks but the odd nice pike. Lost a good double there today and had a follow by another nice fish.