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Spring Salmon Fishing on the Slaney
This week we’re delighted to bring you our first episode from the river bank.
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The Last Salmon Crowdfunder
The wild salmon is endangered.
Patsy Peril – a Limerick netsman’s fight to save the salmon
This week it’s a book club episode with Patsy Peril, who co-wrote (with Deirdre Nuttall) ‘Swimming Upstream: one man’s fight to save the Atlantic…
1:08:07
The mystique of Donegal’s hill loughs with Ronan McWilliams
He’s The Scientific Angler on YouTube whose videos of Corrib, Arrow and Sheelin show brown trout fishing in Ireland at its best, but what’s also great…
56:59

March 2025

Empowering communities to be custodians of their local rivers
Education about and local engagement with rivers and water catchments are vital for empowering communities, kids and parents to be custodians of their…
56:27
Bonus Ep: Saol ar an tSiúr (Life on the Suir)
George McGrath is well known to listeners of the Ireland on the Fly podcast, a friend of the show he has joined us on numerous occasions.
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Evo Smyth’s fly fishing & fly tying journey from Latvia to Ireland
This week we’re joined by Evo Smyth, originally from Latvia, but living and fly fishing in the Irish midlands for the last twenty years.
1:06:53
Salmon Watch Ireland & the plans against salmon farming in Ireland in 2025
Spring is in the air and it feels like the season is finally starting to click into gear and for many salmon anglers you’ll be thinking of trips to book…
53:34

February 2025

Kilbride Anglers – a fascinating history of growth & overcoming obstacles since the 1940s
This week we’re finding out about a fly fishing club that bucks the trend and continues to grow its membership in the face of declining interest in the…
42:27
Mastering fly tying techniques with Barry Ord Clarke
This week it’s a fly tying book club special with Barry Ord Clarke aka The Feather Bender.
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Willie Holmes' journey from Moorbrook trout to Vancouver steelhead
It’s a first for us I believe on this week’s episode as we speak to Ulster man Willie Holmes from the fishing shop he manages by the Ch’illiwack river…
1:16:40
‘If you can tie flies you can build your own fly rod’ Brian Martin’s tips for your first rod build
While we’re into February and slowly the season is beginning to come to life, you may not have much of a chance to wet a line in the coming weeks so…
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