Game Angling Ireland

Me and John
Sorry late report, we headed down to our favorite spot in Wicklow for a few Rainbows. It was very quite for the first few hours not a take didn't even see any fish rise. There was this bloke at the other end of the lake fishing with a spinner which is not allowed, he had about six fish stuffed them in his bag and legged it i hope he choked on them. I switched fly to a red gold headed Nymph which john tied and then a had my first Rainbow of the day. We then moved to the other end of the lake I had 2 more about 3lb then john got a cracking fish of 6 and a half lb,I gave him a hand to land it and when I went back my rod was gone. I searched the edge of the lake no joy and just as we were about to go I noticed my rod sticking out of the water it was too far out to get with fly rod so i went up and they gave me a lend of a bait rod. After a few casts John hooked into my fly rod and pulled it in with a lovely Rainbow at the end of the line, first time I've had my rod stolen by a fish, we had 6 fish and lost about 6 it was a cracking few hours fishing in a lovely place.

It this a day ticket fishery or is it members only?