Fishery manager Trevor Doen reports that fishing at Screebe has really improved, with heavy rain on the 14th and spring tides, which bodes well for the next weeks. One interesting characteristic of Screebe is that even in low water levels salmon and sea trout can still get to the top of the third lake and to the Salmon Pool.
From the 7th of June sea trout fishing picked up with 23 recorded up to 2lbs, and 36 brown trout recorded to 3lbs from Screebe Lake. On the 21st June a small run of grilse livened up fishing at the Salmon Pool, with 3 lost and one landed at 5lbs things looked promising , over the next week this story continued with fish lost and one landed each day – 7 salmon for the week to 6.5lbs. On the 29th Fisch n Fang magazine from Germany arrived for a week ,the first 3 days saw calm and sunny conditions but they still managed some nice brown trout and sea trout from the tidal loughs, on the 4th day conditions improved with cloud cover and a good strong westerly stirring things up. Tre3vor guided them to their first Screebe salmon of 5lbs. So the Screebe grand slam was caught, photographed and logged (salmon ,sea trout and brown trout.) The last 2 days they switched to perch fishing on one of our many lakes where jigging soft plastic lures paid off with over 100 perch caught and released. On the 4th of July 4 anglers from the Moyola angling club arrived – Brian Bigmore , Phillip Maguire , Tommy McGrath and Patsy Harkin had 4 days trout fishing the bottom 3 lakes. They did the club proud with 210 brown trout, 35 sea trout and one 5.5lbs grilse for Phillip, releasing all the trout in sporting fashion.
On the 10th July regular German angler Eberhardt Jahnke arrived for 4 days fishing – he caught 3 nice grilse to 5.5lbs and lost 4 others after acrobatic fights – in all a nice weekend in low water conditions. The rain on Monday and Tuesday has really improved water conditions, and Trevor was in touch again last night with a “live feed” from the fishery, sending a photo of Ken McMillan with a nice grilse just after being landed. With good conditions and fish running, I expect to hear of more fish from Screebe over the next few days.
To book fishing contact Screebe House at 091 574110 or visit www.screebe.com
