Post by minitube on Jun 29, 2007 7:42:27 GMT
Better answered with a new thread
The Moy is mainly a lough fed river on its lower reaches. People may be wondering from another thread why the fish sometimes won't take the fly in coloured water (peat stained - not muddy or sedimented), especially spate river fishers. In my experience of Ireland there are three types of rivers, pure spate rivers, Lough fed rivers and Spring fed rivers. If I go to the Cork Blackwater, a pure spate river and it is dropping with fresh water and is peat stained I will expect to catch plenty of fresh fish on the fly but I would not expect to do so on the lower Moy, nor in a spring fed river that has coloured up. If the Cork Blackwater was low and clear I would struggle to make contact with any fish at all but absolutely not on the Moy which often would fish very well in low clear water.
On lough fed and spring fed rivers coloured water is not good for fresh fish on the fly especially over the first half of the season but they do fish well in clear settled water and indeed low water conditions to the fly.
Later on the fresh autumn fish are not so fussy as the springers and grilse.
Every river is unique and has its own quirks. It is not always possible to know why, however to know what happens when is important, and enough without exact knowledge of why as one may still act accordingly, the why is always speculation.
It is considered here to be the difference between lough fed or mainly lough fed systems and pure spate systems.
The Moy is mainly a lough fed river on its lower reaches. People may be wondering from another thread why the fish sometimes won't take the fly in coloured water (peat stained - not muddy or sedimented), especially spate river fishers. In my experience of Ireland there are three types of rivers, pure spate rivers, Lough fed rivers and Spring fed rivers. If I go to the Cork Blackwater, a pure spate river and it is dropping with fresh water and is peat stained I will expect to catch plenty of fresh fish on the fly but I would not expect to do so on the lower Moy, nor in a spring fed river that has coloured up. If the Cork Blackwater was low and clear I would struggle to make contact with any fish at all but absolutely not on the Moy which often would fish very well in low clear water.
On lough fed and spring fed rivers coloured water is not good for fresh fish on the fly especially over the first half of the season but they do fish well in clear settled water and indeed low water conditions to the fly.
Later on the fresh autumn fish are not so fussy as the springers and grilse.
Every river is unique and has its own quirks. It is not always possible to know why, however to know what happens when is important, and enough without exact knowledge of why as one may still act accordingly, the why is always speculation.
It is considered here to be the difference between lough fed or mainly lough fed systems and pure spate systems.