David McEvoy reports on a decent season for fishing at Delphi.
Well, we’ve reached that time of year again, when all is quiet on the Fishery front, for a while anyway! I normally go around for the first week or two not knowing what to do with myself and actually arrive home at 5.30pm., which takes a bit of getting used to. The down time is indeed nice for a while and thank God for the seasons.
Obviously, we finished up the season, since my last update. September ended up being relatively quiet from a salmon perspective, with another 11 landed which brought the total to 17 for the month. Rainfall only amounted to 105.6mms(4.15”), so water levels throughout were relatively low. There were 6 more fish landed before the last day. Paddy Breheny from Dublin, who actually coxed me when I rowed for Neptune many years ago had a nice fish off the Turn Pool of 5lbs on a Francis on the 21st. Brian Collington had one of approx. 8lbs off Finlough on the 24th. David Flynn had a fish of approx. 3lbs from the Grilse Pool on the 26th. On the 27th Liam Dunne and Charlie MacLennan had a grilse each off Finlough and finally Karsten Kronburg had one from the Stream on Finlough on the 29th.
The 30th was a much more relaxed affair this year, with just locals and staff. Some people fly fished and a few others did a bit of spinning and we landed 5. Ray Walsh and Douglas O’Toole, two local teenagers had a fish each and then Tom worked his magic and managed to get fish for Svetlo, Maura and Eve even landed her first ever, a good hen fish of approx. 8.5 that was duly returned. That brought our total for the month to 17 and for the year to 303. There were also a few more escapees, which brings our total landed to 19. Well done to all. BBQ didn’t start till about 5 and after that we had a most enjoyable evening and night!
September proved to be by far and away the best month for sea trout with 218 landed. They proved a little more difficult to catch towards the end of the month but there was some good sport to be had and Dorrie Gibbons from Cong organised a great day out for the Damsel Fly Fishers, who I’m sure we’ll see again. John Somerville had the very unusual experience of hooking a Brownie and it then getting taken by a Sea Trout of 3lbs+. The sea trout held on and John actually landed and returned both. Donal Costello from the Neale had our second best sea trout of approx. 5lbs. Total Sea Trout landed to the end of September was 328.
There will be a much more detailed analysis of all the fact and figures in our annual newsletter in a month or so. Finally, I must thank everyone for all their help and support throughout the year, staff, shareholders, syndicate members and customers most of whom make it a pleasure to do the job that I do. Thanks to all. D.McEvoy
David
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 Email: info@delphilodge.ie
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