Osgur Grieve reports a good week on the Erriff with a total of 13 grilse and 1 springer landed, with more hooked and lost. Some of the lucky anglers included Kevin Attride who fished with us again on Saturday 10th and was rewarded with a fresh wild grilse of 3.5lbs from the Broken Bridge Pool on Beat 5. Thomas Merkel released a nice fresh grilse from the Colonel’s Pool on Beat 6 which weighed 6lbs. Local men Peter Joyce and Peter Coyne both caught grilse on Sunday 11th before the weather conditions got too bad, weighing 4.5lbs and 3.85lbs respectively; these fish came to a shrimp fly and a Cascade. Vaughan Lewis (UK) returned a fine fresh springer of 8lbs on Monday 12th from Beat 6. Archie McCauley had a very memorable half-day on Tuesday afternoon catching 4 grilse! 3 of these were wild and were released from Beat 9. These fish ranged in weights from 3 – 3.75lbs and fell for a Cascade and a Willie Gunn tube.
The recent rain has brought some more fresh grilse into the system and we look forward to the week ahead. Flies that worked best this week were the Cascade, Willie Gunn tube and Garry Dog.
For fishing bookings you can call the fishery office on (095) 42382 or you can email [email protected] to avail of our reduced angling rates for 2017.
