David McEvoy reports from the Delphi Fishery…

Our February total finished up at five, which is just above our 10 year average of 4.5. There were two more fish landed since my last update. Both fish were landed on the 27th by Peter Moran from Derry. The first was in the Waterfall and weighed in at approx. 6.5lbs. The second, a couple of hours later came from the Meadow Pool and weighed in at 14lbs 14ozs. Both fish were taken on Delphi Collies. Peter was delighted to have landed one, but when he landed the second he could not believe his luck! Well done Peter. It must be said that conditions were excellent with the river being lower than it had been for some time at 55. These two fish plus the previous three brought our monthly total to five.

It should also be noted that we had a tremendous amount of rain here for February with 484.6mms (19.1”). This is actually the highest for any month since February 2014 when we had 497.7 (19.6”). This was the end of a period of very wet weather when December 2013 was 503.6mms (19.8”) and January 2914 of 523.3mms (20.6”). Hopefully the pattern will not follow suit to the same extent.

March salmon

It looks like this week will be somewhat drier and March has already gotten off to a good start, with a couple of fish being lost and Werner had one this morning of 7lbs 6ozs on a Nightstar in the Waterfall Pool. The water had again dropped to 58.

There are rods available next week from the 8th to the 14th on a River/Fin basis, so if anyone is interested please give us a shout.

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