Bill Thornton, IFI, reports from the banks of the River Moy…
Fresh water and an increase in angling effort saw the reported Moy catch rise to 793 salmon for the week. Salmon were caught on all fisheries from Ballina to East Mayo. However some fisheries faired better than others.
On the Ridge Pool out of a total of 63 salmon. Graham Hunter, Northern Ireland, had a 7.5 lbs grilse on the fly and Roland Capouillez from Belgium had 3 grilse on fly, best 6 lbs. Roland also had a 4 lb grilse on the Cathedral beat.
All fisheries upstream of Ballina reported good returns with Steven Hoper, Northern Ireland, taking 3 Grilse on worm from the Coolcronan Fishey.
The Foxford salmon anglers water downstream & upstream of Foxford reported 215 salmon for the week. On the Cloongee fishery Bill O’Regan Dublin had 5 Grilse for 2 days and 17 year old French angler Clement Lelimousin had 5 fish and his father Jerome had 2 fish on spinners for week.
East Mayo anglers had another big week reporting 139 Salmon. Among the successful anglers were Adoulf Reding Switzerland 2 x 4 lb grilse on worm also Marco & Maurizio Engheben had 2 fish each on worm.
