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Ireland at the World Fly Fishing Championships
This time last week the Ireland fly fishing team was in the Czech Republic getting ready for their shot at the World Fly Fishing Championships and with…
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The 2025 Mayfly Review
We’re nearly into June and the mayfly is finally petering out.
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Stan Headley on a life fly fishing Scottish Lochs & Irish Loughs
Stan Headley is a fly angler and fly tyer who would be known to so many people in Ireland and the UK.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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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‘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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The unique and special Lough Carra
This week we’re finding out about the unique and special Lough Carra, renowned for its marl bottom which gave the water an alluring blue and aquamarine…
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Why George McGrath gave up the dry fly rod for pike
‘It’s been the strangest of seasons,’ George McGrath tells us on this week’s Ireland on the Fly.
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