The Brown trout is native to Ireland and it's a favourite of my guests. These Trout primarily feed on freshwater invertebrates and will also eat fish or 'fry' when they get bigger. Trout are opportunistic feeders that exploit seasonal prey such as Duckfly, Olives, Mayfly and Caddis.

To catch these brown trout we use a variety of my own effective patterns that mimic those flies, from wets to dry flies which are all tyed by myself.

We are passionate about fishing for wild brown trout and often offer the opportunity to my guests to fish different loughs chasing these brown trout.

The famous Gillaroo trout which can only be found on Lough Melvin and no where else in the world, feed almost exclusively on bottom living insects such as snails and fly lava. The name Gillaroo is derived from the Irish for red fellow, it has a bright, buttery golden colour in its flank with bright crimson and vermillion spots and also has a gizzard which is used to aid the digestion of hard food items such as water snails.

Legend has it that Saint Bridge was offered chicken to eat on a Friday as she walked through Garrison in County Fermanagh. After being offered Chicken, which was forbidden on Fridays for members of the Catholic faith, she was so enraged she threw the entire bird into the river whereupon it changed into a fish, hence the gizzard. Fishing for these fish usually consists of fishing in shallow and rocky shore lines.

Sonaghan trout is another species of trout that only be found on the beautiful unspoiled Lough Melvin. The Sonaghan however, can be caught anywhere in any depth of water, since their staple diet consists of mainly daphnia and other insects. Fishing for Sonaghan usual consists of fishing in deep open water pulling a team of wetflys in a rolling wave.

Sea trout, also know as White trout and Finnock, are native to Ireland particularly along the west coast of Ireland. Sea trout are part of the same species of brown trout, where Sea trout migrate from the streams in which they where born to the sea to grow and mature before returning to their native river to spawn.

Fishing for these fish usually consists of a team of wetfly pulling in a nice rolling wave.

The Atlantic Salmon is known as the king of fish, they are migratory fish that hatch in freshwater rivers and migrate to the ocean where they mature and then return to their natal freshwater river where they were born to spawn.

Fishing for Salmon usually involves pulling a team of wet flys in a nice rolling wave, and there is definitely something special about catching one of these.

Salmon features strongly in Irish mythology, with Fionn mac Cumhaill receiving great wisdom after eating Salmon. The story goes that the poet Finegas spent seven years fishing for this Salmon. Finally Finn caught the Salmon and gave the fish to Fionn, his servant and son of Cumhaill, with instructions to cook it but on no account eat any of it. Fionn cooked the Salmon, turning it over and over, but when he touched the fish with his thumb to see if it was cooked, he burnt his finger on a drop of hot cooking fish fat. Fionn sucked on his burned finger to ease the pain. Little did Fionn know that all the Salmon's wisdom had been concentrated into that one drop of fat. When he brought the cooked meal to Finegas, his master saw that the boy's eyes shone with a previously unseen wisdom. Finegas asked Fionn if he had eaten any of the Salmon. Answering no, the boy explained what had happened. Finn Eces realized that Fionn had received the wisdom of the Salmon, so gave him the rest of the fish to eat. Fionn ate the Salmon and in so doing gained all the knowledge of the world. For the rest of his life, Fionn could draw upon this knowledge merely by biting his thumb. The deep knowledge and wisdom gained from the Salmon of Knowledge allowed Fionn to become the leader of the Fianna, the famed heroes of Irish myth.