Osgur Grieve has the angling report from the Erriff for 01/06/17 – 06/06/17…
The arrival of the grilse has produced 12 fish for the week. On June 1st local man Peter Coyne fished and was rewarded with a wild salmon of 6lbs, which he returned. This fish took a willie gunn in the middle garden pool. Next up was regular visitor Ian Ferris who on Friday 2nd had a 4lbs grilse from the falls pool on a cascade. Later on Ian lost a much much bigger fish at the falls after playing him for 5 minutes much to his disappointment! Bank holiday Monday proved to be a red letter day for regular visitor Kevin Attride who landed 5 fish in total these fish weighed 4lbs.,10.75lbs.,3.75lbs.,4lbs.,4lbs. The fish all came from the falls and middle garden pool and wild fish were returned.
Both Gilbert Veillerose (France) and local club man James O’Neill fished on Monday and returned a grilse each of 4lbs. and 3.75lbs. from the middle garden and bridge pool respectively, James also had 5 sea-trout in the 0.5lbs bracket returned. With the river holding nicely above 1.1m during Tuesday, regular visitor Stuart Royle had his first and second ever salmon from the Erriff. His fish came from the middle garden pool and coronation pool on beat 8 and weighed 6lbs. and 5lbs. both of which he released. Stuart also lost another fish in the gauge pool. Visiting angler Paul Boyle (Northern Ireland) released a nice 3lbs. grilse in the middle garden pool also on Tuesday. While the cascade did catch fish it was good to see other flies such as the Garry dog, Yellow Ally’s and Foxford shrimp also do the business. Prospects look good for the coming week with more rain forecast.
For fishing bookings please call the fishery office on (095) 42382.
