David McEvoy reports from Delphi where they have had a good start to June…
11 June: We have made a very encouraging start to June with fourteen fish in the first ten days, and, we had quite a bit of broken weather with the system as a whole slowly being topped up after the long dry spell. These were all grilse bar one cracking fish taken by Urs of 16lbs6ozs. Bertrand Fenart got the ball rolling on the 1st with a nice sea liced grilse of approx. 5lbs off Doolough. Giles Rawlingson have his first ever salmon on the 2nd, a grilse of 3lbs5ozs off Doolough. Holger Peres, from Munich also had his first ever on the 3rd, a nice grilse of 5lbs2ozs off the Grilse Pool on a Foxford Shrimp. There was also another first ever on the 5th when Niall Bollard had a fish from the Whin Pool of 4lbs9ozs on a Bann Special. Fred Eberle had one of 3lbs10ozs off Finlough on the 6th on a Red Shrimp. Brendan Keenan had a great morning on the 7th with two fish of approx. 2lbs and 1.75lbs on a Willie Gunn Variant. Manfred Wolf had one from the Turn Pool on the 8th of 5lbs9ozs on a Willie Gunn. The dynamic duo of Alan Molloy and David Dunne had three on the 9th, Alan landing a lovely fish of approx. 7.5lbs from the Whin on a Willie Gunn and David landing two off Fin in the afternoon of 2lbs7ozs and 4lbs6ozs, both on a Silver Stoat.
Urs Leibundgut was over for the weekend wiith some Swiss friends celebrating three 6oth birthdays in the same year, and he got a wonderful birthday gift, landing two before breakfast on the 10th. The first was a grilse of 3lbs1oz and the second fifteen minutes later was a magnificent fish of 16lbs6ozs. Well done again Urs. Both fish were from the Turn Pool and both on Cascades. Mark Corps finished off the day with another off the Turn Pool of 3lbs6ozs again on a Cascade.
Hopefully this is the start of a good grilse run and if anything it seems to be a little ahead of previous years as regards timing or the run may be greater. There are some rods available over the next two weeks so give us a call.
David McEvoy
Delphi Fishery
Go fishing…
At Delphi Lodge, with many years of experience with the timing of the best runs of fish, we have in place a price system that offers both great value fishing and lets our anglers know when they have the best chance to catch a fresh run spring salmon or a summer grilse or Delphi sea trout.
Delphi Fishery
Delphi Lodge, Leenane, Co. Galway.
Tel: +353 (0)95-42222 Fax +353-95-42296
Web: www.delphilodge.ie
