Fishery manager Colin Folan reports from Lough Inagh, with relief that the prolonged hot spell has passed at last. Recent rains have brought the water levels up, and the water temperature down. The temperature of the lake is now 16.7 degrees C (down from 22C, two weeks ago). Large numbers of sea trout and salmon have entered the lake lately, but they are slow to rise to the fly at present. I am sure of a good September on Inagh, and although it has not been a great year for fishing, we are on course to end up with a respectable number of salmon in the book for 2013.
9 salmon and 81 sea trout were landed for the week for 50 rod days. John Dardis (Kildare), fished the Derryclare Butts for two half days and landed a fish each day, weighing 4.5lbs and 7lbs. Both fish took a size 12 Cascade. Peter McGuinness (Galway) landed his first Inagh salmon during the Galway Garda Anglers annual outing on Inagh this week, the fish weighed 4.25lbs and took a Gold Dabbler. Michael Heery and Dennis Murphy (Dublin) fished Inagh for 2 days and recorded 16 sea trout to 2.5lbs, mostly on a Green Dabbler. Colin Folan managed a 4lbs brown trout from Corloo Beat on a Sunray and finally Andy Walsh (Galway) had sea trout of 3lbs and 3.5lbs on a Telephone Fly.
We could do with a few more days rain to get things going again, and September should be worth a visit to Connemara.
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