A couple of pics of Lough Conn in its current condition....
Irish team have enlisted the local Inuits to help them with their fishing techniques.

In the interest of fairness for the event, I thought the other teams should be made aware of the conditions that they will face........this should get me good brownie points prior to the Autumn International.

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Jesus mate Is that Cloghans bay

Whats the main lough like ???

The big loughs are gonna be a long time warming up this year.

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wow, great pix , it mite be a daft question, but with the lake frozen will it affect the fish or the fishing in 2-3 months time??

Wow...first ive seen it like that

Cheers for pics m8.

Cracking photos jungle bunny ,i was down at Foxford visiting a pal and the lough was very high then but that's the first time i have seen it frozen over

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A bit of a change from when I was there in August, same bay I think.

sorry about pic camra phone

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It's Cloghans Bay from Padraic Kelly's shore alright, the lake has dropped about 6ft and has now frozen over. The main body of the lake is not frozen over just yet but if the current weather continues the whole lake will be frozen by next week.

I have no idea how it effects the fishing, I suppose it will take the water a long time to heat up for those who venture out in the early part of the season.

Not only will it be cold, but the water will be at summer level or lower by 10 days time at the current rate

The poor buzzers will want lagging jackets

Great pics of clochans bay....The freezing over wouldn't effect my catch rate from clochans all that much. I rarely ever took a fish from the bay anyhow...
Looking forward to fishing Conn again after a few years of a break, although i might wait till it thaws..

Cheers
JJ

You need to fish it early in the year JJ, it gets too shallow and heats up too much so the fish seem to move out of the bay from the end of May onwards....it holds a huge stock of trout in the early season and it has some great duckfly holes......one is named after Waterlodge

Here is Waterlodge heading off to make an early start at digging out his Duck holes