Lochs & loughs: Venues

Corrib, Mask, Derg — the wet-fly drift, the dap, and the particular joy of a wild trout in the wave.

Wet-fly team on the drift. Lift, don't strip.

Big lochs that fish like seas, hill lochs the size of a field, and freestone rivers full of wild browns that don't read magazines.

Big lochs: wet-fly team. Hill lochs: stealth. Rivers: dry fly.

Atlantic Ireland at its wildest — brown trout on the loughs and silver sea trout that, unlike their British cousins, oblige in daylight.

Sea trout on loughs: DAYTIME. On rivers: night.