Frank Maunsell from the Owenmore Fishery reports:
16 July: Thursday we had a man on the Lake at 8am and by 10 am he had 7 trout landed up to 3 lbs. The wind changed direction and started to blow gales so he had to come in off it.
The mist came down and it turned to rain on Friday and didn’t stop until Sat evening resulting in a terrific flood. When the water was s very low on Thursday the bottom 3 pools filled with seatrout and we had a good run of grilse with them. On Friday night when the water was still low the lads had terrific night fishing.
There were some good fish met on Saturday both seatrout and grilse but the wind changed to northwest in the evening and the whole river just went dead.
The water was a little bit on the high side on Sunday morning but there was still plenty of fish seen running. There were no grilse landed today but there was a few seatrout caught.
There are heavy showers forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday which should see the river fish until at least Friday.
Frank Maunsell
Owenmore Fishery
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There are approximately five miles of fly fishing along the main part of the Owenmore River in Kerry, with 33 named pools and an additional 180 acres of lake fishing in this Kerry beauty spot. The salmon, grilse and sea trout begin to run in April. The runs continue through spring and summer into early October.
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