A great weekend's salmon fishing on the Drowes and the prospects are rosey

Monday 29^th February  to Sunday 13^th March 2016
On the 29^th water levels were lovely with the gauge reading 0.64m. The river then rose to read 0.77m on the 4^th but then the river fell gradually and was reading 0.64m by the end of the day on the 13^th. This meant the river had 2 weeks of lovely water levels. Over the 1^st week a few rods were out but from Thursday 19^th onwards, the much nicer weather meant that good numbers of rods fished over the last 4 days. Catches really picked up with 17 salmon reported to date with 13 of these caught in the last 4 days. On the 6^th March, Johhny O’Neill recorded an 11½lb salmon caught on a Flying ‘C’ lure from the Island Pool and Gunter Vaivads accounted for a 6lb salmon caught on a lure from Tinkers Hole.

 
Last week, on the 7^th, Brendan Lyons recorded a 6lb salmon caught on worm from Lennox’s Bridge. On the 8^th Mark Donaghy reported a 5½lb fish caught on a tube fly from the Blackwater. On the 10^th, Paul Martin reported an 8½lb salmon caught on a spinner from the Island Pool. Jack Brown registered a 9lb salmon caught on fly from Lennox’s. Richard Agnew logged an 8½lb salmon caught on a ‘Tosh’ fly from the Mill Pool and Chris Shepherd accounted for a 9½lb salmon caught on a Purple Cascade fly from The Grazings.
Over the weekend,on the 11^th, Brendan Bourke recorded an 8lb salmon caught on a Cascade fly from the Island Pool. Eoin McManus reported a 10lb salmon caught on a Rapala from The Grazings. Paul McCausland registered an 8½lb salmon caught on worm. John O’Connor logged a 7lb salmon caught on a fly from the Old Sea Pool and John Stephens accounted for a 9½lb salmon caught on a Cascade fly from the Island Pool. On the 12^th, Nash McDaid recorded a 7lb salmon caught on a Rapala. Gary Bennett reported an 8lb salmon caught on shrimp from the Money Hole and Chris McDaid accounted for an 8lb salmon caught on a Rapala from the Mill Pool. On the 13^th, Stephen McGimpsey recorded an 8lb salmon caught and released on a Flying ‘C’ lure from The Wee Drain.
With the weather forecast, the rapidly increasing salmon run, the lovely spring weather and cracking water levels, prospects for the coming week are very rosy indeed!

Lough Melvin

It seems Melvin has been fairly quiet and I have not yet received any reports of catches. If I hear more, I will include this fortnights catches in the following report.

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The Drowes Fishery is one of Ireland’s premier spring salmon and grilse fisheries. The Drowes is among the earliest opening salmon fisheries in the country and regularly claims the honour of producing Ireland’s first salmon of the season on opening day, January 1st. The river is some 5 miles in length, with over 70 named pools, flowing from Lough Melvin at Lareen Bay and entering the sea at Tullaghan, just outside Bundoran. The Drowes has a wide variety of water suitable for all fishing methods, including several miles of good fly water and deeper slower moving pools suitable for spinning and bait fishing.
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