Recent weeks saw some good salmon fishing on the Glencar/Drumcliff System. On the Drumcliff River several salmon were landed, mainly on worm and spinner. Successful anglers included local Sligo anglers Micheal Carr with a 5 lbs. fish on worm, Paul Scott who also had a 5 pounder but on spinner and Paul Mulligan with a fine 8 lbs. salmon on worm.
Glencar Lake produced 2 fine grilse weighing 7 lbs. and 6 lbs. respectively for local flyangler, John Davis, while Pat Davis, Dublin, had one fish of 5 lbs. also on the fly.
There is also some sea trout fishing reported from the system with a few smaller fish caught on the Drumcliffe River.
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The lough gets a really good run of seatrout and a fair number of salmon, both spring fish and grilse. The average size of the seatrout is quite big – over 1½lb – and local anglers claim that the lough produces the largest average size of seatrout in the west of Ireland.
www.fishinginireland.info/salmon/northwest/glencar.htm
