The Bandon Angling Association reports that the salmon were still on the take over the weekend with a few fish landed. This week, Monday July 13, started with the river in tip top condition with more reports of fresh fish caught. Fly has been the most successful method over the recent days.

Sea liced 3lb grilse being released
Sea liced 3lb grilse being released

Local and visiting anglers are requested to exercise extreme caution when entering the river to fish Roughole from the main road. Some of the riverbank has collapsed and is unsafe to use.

Report and photos courtesy of the Bandon Angling Association

Go fishing…

The River Bandon is a most scenic and prolific game fishing river flowing through some of the most picturesque country side in West Cork. It’s source is a few miles north west of Dunmanway from where it flows through that town and and on through the villages of Ballineen, Enniskeane, Kilcoleman, Bandon and Innishannon where it become tidal and widens into an estuary before meeting the sea past Kinsale.

Day tickets are available – http://www.bandonangling.com/visitors.html

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Today’s conditions on the Bandon. Water levels for the Bandon can be checked on the Farsom Digital Watercams site.
Today’s conditions on the Bandon. Water levels for the Bandon can be checked on the Farsom Digital Watercams site.