We’re into October, the nights are closing in, and for some of you, pike fishing awaits, or evenings fly tying at the vice. But the off season also means the Irish Fly Fair in November and this week’s guest is Darryl Mooney who tells us about his involvement as the fly manager and some of the incredible fly tyers who will be jetting in from around …

It was very saddening to hear the news that John Gierach, the world famous and beloved fly fishing writer, has passed away at the age of 78.He was a huge inspiration to us here on Ireland on the Fly for his books, personality, style and approach to fly fishing as well as life. There was much we could all learn from him.And so, in honour of the late…

So, that’s pretty much it for the season for brown trout, sea trout and salmon fly anglers. Currane, Sheelin and a few other lakes are still open until October 12th but for the vast majority of you the rods are being put away for the winter. Over the coming weeks we’ll be reviewing how the season went on the rivers and loughs around Ireland for sal…

This week we’re ‘following the fin’ with Louth native, Joe Quinn, who has been based in Mayo for the last fifty years, and is a well-known international angler who has fished for salmon, sea trout and his first love, brown trout. We talk to Joe about brown trout on Lough Conn, night time sea trout fishing, why he ditched the salmon rod over twenty …

We spoke last week about the disastrous escape of thousands of farmed salmon from Killary Harbour and the consequences that will have on the wild fish stocks on the west coast of Ireland. Billy Smyth is chairperson and co-founder of Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages which has been instrumental in fighting the development of fish farms and raising awa…

For the last few weeks of the season we wanted to speak to fly anglers to find out how their season has gone.You hear different stories about how conditions have been and how loughs and rivers have fared around the country, so what has it actually been like for anglers on the ground?This week, it was great to chat once again to James Barry, the fis…

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It’s hard to believe but we’re into the final few weeks of the salmon and brown trout season and while you’re trying to fit in as much fishing as you can, for this week’s Ireland on the Fly we wanted to find out how some of the loughs are fishing for brown trout in September and we’re joined by Dominic Kerrigan, a fanatical fly angler who regularly…

Glenda Powell, who is well known in Ireland and abroad as a fly casting instructor and guide on the river Blackwater joins us on this week’s Ireland on the Fly. In recent years Glenda has also been organising trips for salmon, sea trout and Arctic char to places such as Patagonia, Greenland and Iceland and having just spent two months in the land o…

This week we speak to Judd Ruane, the well-known sea trout fishing guide on the Moy Estuary. Judd talks to us about the incredible days he has had as well as some of the famous names that have been in his boat, plus you’ll also hear about 16 years on the road touring Ireland, the UK and America with a Glen Miller style big band. It’s fair to say th…

Here are the timestamps I promised I'd give you, you're welcome. 00:30 - Aimless Solipsistic Preamble 02:45 - Extensive Slander of Michael Eisner, Disney, and Disneyland. 34:17 - The Little Mermaid (1989) 49:31 - Beauty and the Beast (1991) 1:04:24 - Aladdin (1992) 1:29:40 - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 1:43:38 - The Lion King (1994) 2:06:…

The Costello & Fermoyle fishery in Connemara is one that evokes historic nostalgia mentioned as it was in Kingsmill Moore’s A Man May Fish as a favourite location of his for sea trout. The fishery comprises the Casla River and a series of lakes, including Glenicmurrin, Fermoyle, Clogher, and the Schoolhouse Loughs, set in beautiful scenery against …

If you'd have asked me years ago which of the protagonists of these two movie musicals was sympathetic and which was unredeemably evil, I'd have had a very different answer than the one I have today. The tragedy of this episode is that in my recent quixotic podcasting efforts, this is more fun than I've had in a while but the movies are obscure eno…

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This week we’re joined by the prolific angling writer, Chris McCully. Chris has been a regular contributor to Trout & Salmon magazine and in his spare time has written not just on fishing, but also English academic works as well as poetry. In Ireland though he’s probably best known for 'Nomads of the Tides: Fishing for Irish Sea Trout', which he wr…

And I can't remember if I cried cuz Moulin Rouge felt so contrived But I got bored and mortified the day movie musicals died.על ידי Chris Kerrigan

Joining us on this week’s show is Paul Molloy from Oughterard whose family has been steeped in Irish fly fishing for generations living and working by the shore of Lough Corrib. And as a kid growing up, Paul tells us of the mayfly market where they would be selling mayflies by the dozen and then as he got older how he got more and more into the fly…

We’re nearly at the end of July and how has Ireland’s most prolific salmon river, the Moy, been doing in what’s been another difficult season? We wanted to find out if the grilse run had given any positivity to anglers this summer and so we decided to catch up with East Mayo Angler Garrett Ruigrok to find out more. Listen & follow on Apple or Spoti…

Mick O’Farrell is an Irish fly angler and is that rare breed who moved to the UK and subsequently established a high reputation for himself on the stillwaters in England in addition to his prowess in Ireland. He became well known for his book, ‘A Passion for Trout’ and could often be read in UK fly fishing publications discussing stillwater tactics…

It's come to this. Special thanks to listener Gene Bonner* for putting this all together. Here is our first best-of episode, full of highlights and clips from the first ten episodes of this podcast (back when it was called Sondheim on Adderall). *Gene Bonner is not real. There is no Gene Bonner. I cut it together myself and I'm too embarrassed to a…

For this week’s episode we’re focusing on salmon and the recent decision in Norway to close thirty-three of the country’s most prolific rivers in the southwest including the Gaula and Orkla. It was a decision that caught many unawares, including anglers who were on their way out to Norway and one such angler was Johnny Casey who we spoke to before …

You may not be into competition fishing but when the FIPS-Mouche World Championships are on surely you can’t help but wonder how the Irish team fared when pitting itself against the best in the world at fly fishing on rivers and lakes? This year the Worlds were held in the south of France where John Buckley, the Killarney angler, was the team capta…

Stevie Munn is a well-known name in Irish and UK fly fishing circles as someone who has worked in the tackle trade, guided and instructed and also set up the Irish Fly Fair first in Galway before moving to Enniskillen. Stevie is a fanatical fly fisherman who will cast a fly for salmon, sea trout and brown trout – especially the beloved dollaghan tr…

The episode accidentally becomes iconic as Chris has an energy drink, screams about his least favorite movie, takes a short break to watch a disastrous presidential debate, eats too much fast food, and then sluggishly praises a thing he actually likes. Welcome to INYTLM's Summer of Movie Musicals! (NOTE: Sorry for the weird intermittent feedback in…

The Dodder is a unique and special river that flows through Dublin’s south city boundaries with salmon, sea trout and incredible brown trout in it – a fact not many capital cities can claim. But as an urban river it faces many, ongoing challenges and Mark McAndrew, who is on the committee of the Dodder Anglers Association and fishes the river pract…

The 2024 salmon season is well under way and we're waiting for the grilse run, but having spoken to anglers around the country it appears that numbers are still down and following a similar path to 2023. However, if you’ve been despondent and down in the dumps about the salmon, fear not, for this week’s guest, Sean McLaughlin, who is a salmon angle…

I talk about The Sound of Music, which I just saw for the first time ever (dead serious). I reflect on a show I did a regional production of once called Avenue Q, during which the other characters called me fat, lazy, and worthless for 2.5 hours. Also, an exclusive sneak preview of "Regional Theatre Song" from Compassion Fatigue's historic upcoming…

Internationally renowned fishery scientist, Ken Whelan, issues a call to action on the latest episode of The Last Salmon. He says that ranching can and will work to help improve salmon numbers in relation to supporting a rod fishery for anglers and he explains to us the background to its successful development and implementation – albeit with cavea…

It’s time for our second and final mayfly update from around the country and this week we’re hearing how Lough Sheelin and Lough Arrow fared with Eamonn Ross and Jackie Mahon. Eamonn explains how the fishing was fantastic the first week the mayfly was up with some incredible fish being caught, but it’s been tougher since then. Meanwhile on Arrow, J…

This week’s episode is a fascinating look at the famous Castleconnell Fishery on the River Shannon in Limerick with Pat O’Connor who is chair of the Castleconnell River Association. It’s a fishery steeped in history when it was internationally renowned for its huge salmon in the 1800s to the early 1900s and it became a thriving centre for tackle de…

We’ve our first update of the mayfly season for this week’s show and Mike Keady joins us to tell us how Corrib has been fishing. The weather has been unsettled and cold which hasn’t helped things, Mike tells us, but he does expect it to pick up for the next 1-2 weeks so if you have the opportunity do try and make the most of it before it finishes u…

The Owenmore Fishery has been in the news recently with the State buying up the river and lands that are situated on the Dingle peninsula in Kerry. So what does the future hold for the fishery and what is the fishing like on the river and lakes in one of Ireland’s most scenic locations? Frank Maunsell has been the fishery manager there for over a q…

Rory’s. It’s a famous name with a famous owner, Rory Harkin, of Rory’s Tackle Shop in Temple Bar in Dublin. But did you know it opened its doors in 1959 when there were just warehouses around the area and trout and salmon could be caught by the bucketful within Dublin’s environs? Rory Harkin may have passed on the running of the shop to his daughte…

This week we’re turning our attention to first editions of Irish angling books. The Ireland on the Fly Book Club is an important part of what we do here on the podcast and Muiris Huston, the medical contributor to the Irish times, is also a fly angler and fly fishing book collector and he joins us on the show to discuss the books everyone should ha…

It might be hard to believe, but mayfly season is starting soon and it’s expected on Lough Derg from around April 20th onwards. This week’s guest is Shane Creamer from the Garrykennedy Angling Club and he gives us some great and honest insights into fishing Derg during mayfly and the rest of the season. Listen & follow on Apple or Spotify: Rate, re…

This week we speak to Nicholas Grubb who grew up in south Tipperary beside the Suir and the Tar and he tells us about the incredible catches of fish that were to be had growing up. It’s a throwback to another age and his great grandfather Samuel also had a reported 62lber which would have been an Irish record but it was never measured or verified a…

This week we’re joined by Julie Gerry, former winner of the World Cup on Mask – and the only woman to have won it to date, she’s captain of the Irish Ladies Fly Fishing team, and now also Youth Officer with the Irish Trout Fly Fishers Association. Julie tells us how, despite the success of Irish fly fishing teams, it is still a struggle to get more…

This week’s guest on Ireland on the Fly is a fly tyer and fly angler well known to many from fairs around Ireland and abroad and it was only when he moved to Ireland over twenty years ago that he discovered fly fishing and quickly embraced the sport, especially fly tying. Having been originally from the Caribbean it’s no surprise that saltwater fly…

In this episode we talk to Chris Miran, Hub Leader, Human Potential at Medibank, an Australian private health insurer and health company. In a slightly longer episode than usual, we discuss how a company the size of Medibank goes about implementing a 4 day week trial, and some of the rigourous measurement and evaluation they have in place. Chris ta…

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This week on Ireland on the Fly, we turn our attention to the famous River Slaney. The river that was once the doyen of spring salmon rivers in Ireland has suffered more than most in recent times but there are still anglers and custodians of the Slaney that are fighting to keep it going and recover. And to hear more about their work, as well as tho…

This week’s Ireland on the Fly is another book club episode with returning author, Dan O’Donovan, whom we spoke to previously about his book, The Salmon of the River Lee. Dan has also written a very popular monograph on Sidney Spencer, who was a renowned angler and author on lough-fishing for salmon and sea-trout in the north-west of Ireland and th…

Some of you may recall the devastating fish kill that occurred last May on the Ballymacraven River in Ennistymon, Co. Clare. It is estimated that in excess of 2000 fish were killed in this incident. This culminated in a court case on February the 16th, taken by the I.F.I. where Uisce Éireann admitted liability for this event and were fined over €15…

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John Lalor, the well-known Tipperary salmon and trout angler, joins us on the latest Ireland on the Fly podcast to talk about his fishing life on the River Suir and beyond. John’s new book, ‘Fish Scealta: Game Fishing from Alaska to Lapland and the Swedish Arctic’ covers his remarkable fishing life beyond Tipperary covering many of the bucket list …

Jimmy Tyrrell, the well-known fly tyer based outside Abbeyleix in Laois, joins us on this week’s Ireland on the Fly. Jimmy talks about his fly fishing and fly tying journey from tying flies he could fish with on his local rivers to supplying shops and customers as far afield as Australia. And for those of you who want to know the perfect way to mix…

In this episode we talk to Gemma Lewis, APAC Managing Director at Resources Group, a recruitment company specialising in the market research, insights and analytics, data and strategy space. Gemma shares some of the trends they are seeing in today's recruitment market in terms of the benefits companies are offering, and what candidates are looking …

Chris the Podcaster explains his departure.על ידי Chris Kerrigan

For this week’s episode we’re joined by Dave O’Donovan, the Cork-based international angler who loves nothing better than fishing his local Awbeg and Funcheon rivers. With most of the rivers in Cork and Kerry open for trout from February 15th, we spoke to Dave about fishing in the early season and why wet fly tactics are a particular favourite. Lis…

With the opening of the Blackwater on February 1st, we caught up with Conor Arnold, the guide and casting instructor who we spoke to previously on the show, to find out how opening day went on the river and what we can expect over the next few weeks. Conor also has some good advice on how to tempt the early season springers, plus he tells us how he…