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Mon 12 Dec 2008Catching rainbows
ANGLING NOTES:THE TEMPERATURE gauge in the car hovered between minus one and two degrees as I set out from Dublin in the early hours during the current cold snap. I was tempted to turn back. After all, fishing is really only a summer activity, isn't it? But I had spent two days preparing rods, tackle box, boots, loads of jumpers and an overnight bag. And I remembered Eddie McCarthy's words: "We're open 364 days of the year and the locals give out to us for not opening on Christmas Day".
I am travelling to fulfil a long standing invitation to Ballyhass Lakes in Mallow, Co Cork. As I turn off the Killarney Road, passing Longueville House (famous for its apple brandy), I soon enter the 38-acre world of Ballyhass Lakes.
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