Cong Canal July 2017

19/11/2017

This is me at the Cong canal. I caught my first fish here when I was five years old. The Cong Canal is a good place for catching wild brown trout. It connects Lough Mask and Lough Corrib. In July of this year at the start of the school holidays my dad and I spent a day there. My friend Rowan was also there. 

I caught the first fish of the day, a two Pounder on a rod borrowed from a friend. I caught it on a ledgered worm. This means there is no float. There is a ball of lead which pulls the worm under the water as it rolls in the current. 

Then my dad caught a two and a quarter Pounder trout on a float fished live caddis. A caddis is the maggot of a sedge fly. Trout love all stages of the caddis.

We gave the first fish to my friend, and we brought the larger trout home. My dad gutted the trout, and fried it in butter in the pan. Salmon is my favourite fish, but trout fried in butter is really nice too.