The Owenea ran at very low summer levels for the week of the 29th June to the 5th July with the highest reading only being 0.12m. The gauge average for the week was only 0.08 metres. There were no rods fishing in the low water and bright sun and little to report this week I’m afraid.
For the week of the 6th to the 12th July we finally received some decent water conditions. The river was running at very low levels on Monday and Tuesday but Wednesday brought a small fresh reading 0.18m. Thursday saw the river dropping again but decent rain towards the weekend meant the river had risen to 0.20m on Friday with a nice flood of 0.26m on Saturday and a big flood of 0.48m on Sunday. The gauge average for this week read a more healthy 0.20 metres. With the better water levels there was some decent fishing and a number of salmon recorded for the week.
On Thursday, Neil Gallagher recorded a 5lb grilse caught on a spinner from beat 8. On Friday, Fergal Mallon reported a 10lb salmon caught on a fly from beat 8 and also lost a much larger salmon after an exciting fight! On Saturday, Frankie Byrne logged 2 salmon of 10lb each caught on a fly from beat 5 and Columba Campbell accounted for a grilse of 6lb and two sea trout weighing 1½ & 2½ lb. caught on worm. On Sunday, Jim McLean recorded a 10lb salmon caught on a spinner from beat 8. James Compston reported a 7lb salmon caught on a fly from beat 5. Finn McCrory logged 3 grilse caught on a fly from beat 7 with a 4lb fish retained and the other 2 released and Tommy Irvine accounted for a 6½ lb. grilse caught on a spinner from beat 8.
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