The broken weather last week resulted in water levels increasing, with an extra sluice gate open on the weir. Runs of grilse were excellent all week, and there were 79 salmon landed for the week, with many coming to fly and shrimp.
Dan O’Mahony landed 2 grilse of 4lbs each on shrimp, while Patrick Cotter also had 2 grilse on shrimp. Tom Beecher took 3 grilse to 4.5lbs on fly, while James McEvoy had 3 grilse on fly, best fish 5.5lbs. John Murphy took 3 grilse on fly, including a nice fish of 7lbs, while regular visitor and Dublin football fanatic Colm Adams landed 5 grilse for his visit, all taken on shrimp. Waterford angler Mossy Browne landed a nice 7lbs fish on fly, while local angler John Anderson took 4 fish to 5lbs on fly, including 2 released. George Houston from Northern Ireland had 2 grilse on shrimp, and regular Dublin visitor Brian Howard landed 3 grilse during his visit, all on fly. Swiss visitor Martin Hunziker landed a 4lbs grilse on shrimp, while UK angler John Menzies took 2 grilse to 6.5lbs on spinner and shrimp. Henry Csgrove had the best fish of the week, a fine 10lbs salmon, but our catch of the week went to Lucie Fauquet from Switzerland. Lucie, who is a fisheries student doing a summer work placement at the Galway Fishery, landed her first ever salmon, a nice 5.5lbs grilse, to the delight of the regular anglers present.
