The holiday base was the Angler’s Rest in Ballyconnell, County Cavan, with fishing on three different fish-filled waters where his guests from the UK and Ireland caught bream, roach, hybrids and perch.
Organised by specialist angling holiday operator – Active Irish Angling – the party of anglers revelled in the attention given by Bob for seven hours each day, explaining the finer points of feeder and pole fishing, the two most productive methods for catching lots of fish in Ireland.
Bob never unpacked his own fishing tackle, instead he concentrated on his guests and on the final day spent on Lough Oughter at Killykeen Forest Park, the end point was reward enough as 11-year-old Callyn Murphy (see header pic) from Roscommon tipped more than 23lb of roach and skimmers back into the lake.
The heaviest catch on the day was a little more than 50lb of bream, roach and hybrids, from John Errington (right) who had travelled all of the way from Swindon.
Bob Nudd is one of Ireland’s biggest fans and says unshakably: “Without a doubt, Ireland has the most natural and best coarse silver-fish angling in Europe”.
And to prove the point, Bob travels back in Ireland in late August to compete in five weeks of festival match angling at Lough Ramor, Gowna, Arva, King of Clubs and the Monaghan Pairs.
More information and images available from Dave Houghton on dave@activeirishbreaks.com
