Proprietor Ian Powell reports on a young angler who caught a fine salmon on his own fly at Blackwater Lodge

12 year old James O’Keeffe was fishing with his Dad Thomas last Saturday afternoon  March 28 on the Inches on Upper Kilmurry on the lower river.
He was fishing in a spot that most experienced anglers would have walked past without bothering to fish there.

He caught a 12 lb. beauty on a
#10 Cascade which he had tied himself
on a fast sinking tip line.
The fish took him 40 minutes to land.

It’s the Best Fish on the Fly
so far for the 2014 season.

Ian Powell,

Blackwater Lodge & Salmon Fishery
Upper Ballyduff
County Waterford
Ireland

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