David McEvoy reports on good salmon fishing from Delphi.
August turned out to be an excellent month for salmon with 79 landed not including escapees. Sea trout fishing was quieter but has really picked up in the last week. It was extremely wet here with 392mms which was the wettest August in our records back to 1986, but I had a suspicion about 1985 as I remembered that August. Records from Met Eireann indicate that 1985 was the wettest with 433.8mms dating back probably to when Paddy Heneghan started recording rainfall in 1941!
A highlight of early August was 10 year old Lea Fehlmann’s first ever salmon, a fish of approx. 3lbs, taken on a Red Shrimp, which she insisted be returned. Her family had taken the Lodge for the week so needless to say, there was great excitement. Week 32 turned out to be quite exceptional for the time of year with 37 fish landed. This was mainly due to the biggest flood of the year on the Sunday/Monday. From 10am on Sunday the 4th to 10am on Monday the 5th our rain gauge on the lawn recorded 70.6mms(2.78”), while the automatic station at Doolough recorded 80.01mms(3.15”). There were 2 fish landed on Finlough on Sunday morning before the rise and then the river hit 100 later that evening and was quite dirty but by Monday morning it was 95, but running clear, thanks to the filtering effect of the lakes. Colin Lynam had a great morning, landing 4 and losing a couple. Steve Jones landed 2 and lost too many to mention and Rocky Moran had 1, all off the Turn pool, while there were another 3 off Finlough. There were another 25 landed for the remainder of the week, with the Beattie party having 7, Luke Drea 3, Oliver Ross 3, Hamish McAuley and William Maire had 2, while Dorrie Gibbons, Fergal Costello, George Westropp, Peter Moran, Liam Glynn and Michael VanMourik all had 1 each. Special mention must go to Sophia Gaisford and Benoit Hebert, who both landed their first ever salmon on Finlough on the 8th of 4lbs10ozs and 4lbs8ozs respectively.
Sa trout fishing has also picked up significantly. 6 visiting trout anglers from Corrib and Mask fished Doolough and Glencullin for a day and boated 37 sea trout between them, most between 0.5-1lbs, but a few fish up to 1.5lbs.
Plenty fishing available in the next while.
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: [email protected]
Web: www.delphilodge.ie
