Justin and Jenny Greene of Ballyvolane House welcome fishing parties. My day with their ghillies was memorable. The
Duke also has a fishing lodge, Careysville, further up the river
at Fermay, which may be rented.
With outstanding ghillies, friends enveloped by protective gear,
the ritual of preparation, reinstruction, hours of fly fishing pass
in what seems like a few moments. Even with Norman Gillett
of Ballyvolane House, the Irish national fly fishing champion,
painstakingly guiding me, I am committed each time to return
with an American football helmet: the hook seems to fly at me
rather than away, however prosaic my movements. In the aftermath of fly fishing there is a certain strange satisfaction in the
aching back which lasts for about a week, memorializing this
HYLAND
