Hi all!
My family is traveling to Ireland in 3 weeks. I'm a knitter and my husband has arranged a cool knitting thing for me. He's a fly fisherman and I'd like to find something fun for him. He once read an article about fly fishing in Ireland and above the stream was a pub and they'd bring you drinks while you fish. I can certainly bring him the drinks but a pub near a fly fishing stream (with brown trout preferred) is what I'm looking for.
I'd also be willing to hire him a fly fishing guide for a day or afternoon, again on a stream, and fishing for trout is preferred.
Any where Dublin to Galway and south.
Anyone have any ideas? TIA
Posted by
Colorado Mountains, USA
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We spent two weeks in Macroom, in County Cork, two years ago. The Sullane River passes through the town, and while neither of us fish, we noticed several fly fishermen a number of times when we’d drive from Macroom’s west end (aka Masseytown) to Macroom’s downtown area to the east. They were wading in the water immediately downstream from a bridge that connects the west and east sides.
I just now did a Google search on “fly fishing Macroom,” and apparently the river is well stocked with brown trout. There was a pub we never went to a couple of blocks up the Masseytown Road from that bridge on the west side, and looking at a map on my phone just now, it’s Mary Anne’s Bar. Once across the bridge, the road on the east side becomes Main St. in Macroom, and there are several watering holes not too far from the bridge, including Granville’s Bar and Restaurant, Golden’s Bar, and the TP Cotter Pub, all which I’ve spotted on the map. I don’t know if there are any fishing guides available in the area, but maybe narrowing it down to Macroom would let you investigate the possibilities for his fishing activity.
Posted by
OP
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Great info! Thanks so much!