Tom Doc Fly Fishing

27/10/2025

Just back last night after the Irish Fly Fair over the weekend at the Fulling Mill Stand, we had a great event! It was lovely to meet up with so many people again, old friends and new ones, thanks to everyone who called to us. A big shout out to the guys who manned the stand for us, Jackie Mahon , Mike Keady and Mike Shanks. A great job was done, some lovely flies tied and on hand to help out with any enquiries about the range of materials and the new stuff. Also a big shout out to George Burdess and Jason O Riordan who joined us on the stand for some fly tying outside the Lough Style range, fair play to the lads.
Thanks to Stevie Munn and all the IFF team, the event was run brilliantly and ran off super smoothly.
Hope to see you all again next year.

24/10/2025

All ready for tomorrow to kick off for the Irish Fly Fair. Here is the timetable for tomorrow. We are delighted to be joined by two other tyers from the Fulling Mill approved guides team, George Burdess and Jason O Riordan. George will be tying a river trout pattern and Jason will be tying a saltwater pattern.
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

23/10/2025

Getting all packed up and ready this evening as we'll be heading off tomorrow to Enniskillen for the 2025 IFF this weekend. We will be at the Fulling Mill stand, that's Jackie, the two Mikes and myself tying up some killers with the Fulling Mill materials. We will have a couple of guests tying as well over the weekend, I'll post the details up tomorrow.
Looking forward to meeting with everyone again. See you there 👍

15/09/2025

The latest video that Jackie Mahon and myself did with Patrick Tillard for Fulling Mill was shot this time last year on Sheelin and has just been released. We had great craic making it but it also shows as well that the wild loughs don't always play ball.
Hope you enjoy it!

In this video we travel to Ireland to fly fish on the famous Lough Sheelin with Jackie Mahon and Tom 'Doc' Sullivan. Sheelin is known as a low density lough,...

27/07/2025

I haven't been out much myself this year as I have been busy so I was delighted to end up getting out yesterday for a day's fishing myself. The Cornamona club ran their annual Hospice event yesterday, I hadn't planned to fish but as the floating/reserve angler, I had to sit in at the last minute and ended up having a lovely day.
I got to fish with Andrew Kelly and we had a great day out, and while neither of us and our teams threatened the eventual winners, we had some great sport with missed chances and moved a lot of fish. We both had cracking fish. I had a beauty of 50 cm on my second cast in the morning. I thought I might have been in for a shot for the biggest fish of the day but Andrew put paid to that with a beauty of 52 cm straight after lunch and as it turned out was pipped for the biggest fish by 1 cm. He added to that with one of 35 cm shortly afterwards. He was in hard luck in the last hour when he hooked into a bigger fish than his 52 cm but unfortunately it found a clump of weeds and that put paid to landing him.

It was a great day for a great cause and here is a link to the report on the match on the Cornamona Anglers page.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1160397666131405&id=100064835464689

07/04/2025

Here are a few pics of some of the Duckfly catches from this year. While the fishing was sometimes patchy and conditions were not ideal a lot of the time, we still had some good action, when the stars aligned.
The hatch itself was decent this year so when the fish did come on it could be good. At the start of the hatch, it was really a case of getting a window of an hour or two during the day when they came on and making the most of it when they did. Buzzers were the key method accounting for all the fish below. The quality of the fish was excellent with some nice fish caught. Some days saw the bigger fish turn up, others saw the more average sized trout active. It is nice to see a spread of different sizes. With the Duckfly as good as over now we await the Olives and the Campto.

18/11/2024

Fantastic weekend at the Irish Fly Fair in the Killyhelvin Hotel Enniskillen this weekend. Great show and we had a great time tying at it. Thanks to David Burleigh and Shane Rogers from Fishing Tackle and Bait and Roger's Fishing Tackle for having us on their stands and thanks to all visitors who came to chat with us at the event. Finally thanks to Mike Keady, Jackie Mahon and Mike Shanks for helping out as part of the Pro Team, we had a great time at it.

15/11/2024

Getting all set and ready for the 2024 Irish Fly Fair in Ennikillen, really looking forward to it. I will be tying with Jackie Mahon, Mike Keady, Mike Shanks with some of the range of fly tying materials from Fulling Mill. We will be at the Fishing Tackle.and Bait and Rogers Fishing tackles stand over the weekend. If you're planning on attending call to either stand to have a look.

25/10/2024

Looking forward to the rescheduled Ardaire Springs open day tomorrow. Will be tying a few flies and throwing a line. Will have some of the new Fulling Mill materials on show. Drop by if you're around.

05/10/2024

So saddened to learn of the passing of John Gierach. His books gave me untold enjoyment over the years.
Here is the link to one of the highlights of my involvement with the Ireland on the Fly podcasts where we got to interview the great man. May he rest in peace.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/egnz4FqQ8zBkbtwz/

02/08/2024

Big shout out to the guys at Allt-Flyfishing George Gillespie and Jim Crawford for getting us sorted with our smaller Peli boxes for our recent trip to the Orkneys. The smaller box is much handier than our bigger ones as we didn't need all our gear. However you do need a range of lines for the Orkneys so the spool holders the guys made were excellent, this left the rest of the box with ample room for the rest of the stuff we needed for the Orcadian trout.
Three of us got these done and they were brilliant, really handy for specific trips like this one.
Well done guys, thanks!

02/03/2024

Here's the video of Jackie and myself on Arrow last year

In this video Fulling Mill Signature Tyers Tom 'Doc' Sullivan and Jackie Mahon take us along for a day of fly fishing in Ireland on Lough Arrow. As one of Ir...