As those who know me will know, free is my favourite price. When an accidental encounter with Charlie Baker, owner of a stunning beat on the River Moy led to the opportunity to offer all of you free fishing I jumped at the chance.
The River Moy in County Mayo Southern Ireland is the most prolific salmon river in Western Europe with an estimated 100,000 fish running it every year. This beat is situated above and below the town of Foxford (about 30 mins from Knock airport), about 7 miles from the tidewater so sees tens of thousands of fresh run fish and an exceptional number of springers. The fishery has been developed during the last five years to make it the best fly fishery on the lower Moy. Unlike much of the lower water down to Ballina, which is all slow water, this beat has a considerable gradient and a good flow throughout the beat. It is an exciting stretch to fish, although not at all difficult, particularly in the lowest two pools.
The beats fishes equally well with the floating line in normal conditions or intermediate or sinking lines when the water is higher.
This offer runs for all of May and the first two weeks of June 2012, if interested please contact me for further details.
The catch, if you can call it that is to stick to the following rules for booking.
- To qualify you have to stay in one of the b&bs or the hotel in
Foxford. No exceptions to this.
- This is a fly only water.
- All anglers need to follow the rules for Salmon fishing laid out by the local rivers board (http://fishinginireland.info/salmon/salmonregs.htm).
- All applicants must email me and I will email back with fishing permission.
- Last but by no means least, this is a first come first served offer.
Are your rifle, gun and rod gathering dust? Fear not. With an email or a phone call you can enter a season of great sportfulness. Read More »
By Howard
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Fishing, Misc, Packages, Stalking
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Tagged August, booking trips, Clays, game days, pointers and setters, quail, Roe, simulated game, South Africa, Spain, sporting agent, Test, trips to south africa, trout, volume dove
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February 4, 2012 – 10:30 am
Having had so many great guinea pig trips, you can forgive me my audacity when I planned an expedition to explore wildfowling a la francaise and invited a journalist to join me.
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By Howard
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Posted in Events, Packages, Press, Walked Up Shooting
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Tagged bag, british style, decoys, ducks, ducks and geese, evening flight, France, French, geese, grey partridge, hutte, journalist, partridge, snipe, Sporting, Walked, Walked-up, wetlands
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December 27, 2011 – 3:31 pm
I have a reputation for offering great (if unconventional) sport in obscure locations. Read More »
October 23, 2011 – 11:00 am
I’ve always wanted to see what goes on in the dark.
As eating carrots is just a myth perpetuated by the powers that be and parents, on my annual pilgrimage to that mecca of sporting kit Bass Pro, I picked up a trail cam. Read More »
October 19, 2011 – 9:05 pm
The glorious 12th came racing up on me like a steam train, leaving disarray in its wake as I tackled Yorkshire, Croatia, the 19th century and the Sussex downs in rapid succession. Read More »
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Packages, Stalking, Walked Up Shooting
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Tagged black powder, flintlock, grouse, isle of lewis, Mini-driven, partridge, pheasant, quail, Shoot, Shooting, woodcock, Yorkshire
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We are delighted to officially announce that Outside Days will be hosting the Countryside Alliance‘s Shooting Lodge at the 2011 CLA Game Fair at Blenheim Palace Friday July 22nd to Sunday July 24th. Howard, No.2, Tony and the team will be around all weekend to share their latest tales of daring do and big fish. Please drop by for a chat, to catch up and enter our prize draw for the chance to win a great sporting prize.
While quail shooting, I stumbled across a stretch of Bosnian water and, enticed by its clarity and general troutiness, proposed it as a guinea pig trip. A group of old friends took the gamble, using flicking the fluff as an excuse to convene from their homes across Europe for a long weekend in backwoods Bosnia. Read More »
By Howard
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Posted in Fishing, Packages
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Tagged Bosnia, dry fly, fly fishing, grayling, Kulen Vakuf, Martin Brod, nymph, Una, Unac, Zagreb
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Six months ago a stranger from Spain posted a comment on one of my blogs telling me that where he fished, they caught barbel on the dryfly in numbers. Never one to miss the opportunity to try something new, I packed my bags, guinea pig and tame fishing journalist for the first experiment of the 2011 guinea pig season. Read More »
By Howard
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Posted in Fishing, Packages
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Tagged barbel, Dryfly, Fishing, fly fishing, guinea pig, reservoir, sand flats, short trip, Spain, weekend trip, white sand
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I consider myself a bit of a social media baron on the quiet, as those of you reading this on Facebook or Twitter or Linkedin can attest. And I am a fully paid up subscriber to Norton’s products in addition to an external hard drive as prophylactic belts and braces. Read More »
