Vincent Appleby reports from Lough Currane where the sun has hardly stopped shining once since we last reported…
14/5/2025. The weather conditions significantly affected the activities of the Currane anglers, resulting in low morale. Despite heavy rainfall in surrounding areas, it is believed that Currane remained dry. No reports were received from the Currane anglers. The wind was variable, ranging from light to gentle, with directions including E, SE, SSE, SSW, SW, W, and WNW. Yesterday’s weather recorded no rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 22.2°C, and 10 hours 5 minutes of sunshine.
May 15, 2025. According to the Currane anglers meteorological service, the weather was bright and sunny with light to gentle variable winds shifting from ESE to SE, SSE, SSW, WSW, and SW. There were no reports of any catch and release activities. Yesterday’s weather included 7.2mm of rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 18.0°C, and 9 hours and 8 minutes of sunshine.
May 16, 2025. The Waterville fishery encountered dry conditions, causing frustration among Currane anglers. The area experienced significant sun exposure, with light to gentle winds variably shifting from southeast to south-southwest, west-southwest, and southwest. Weather conditions from the previous day included 0.1mm of rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 19.1°C, and 14 hours of sunshine. So, on that note the Mad Fisherman will have the last say on today’s notes so click the Mad Fisherman.
May 17, 2025. The Currane anglers experienced extremely hot conditions as the sun beat down on the Currane waters. As expected, no notable fishing activity was reported today. Moving on to today’s weather conditions at Currane: wind directions varied from light air to gentle breezes, shifting from east to ESE, SSE, SSW, SW, and WSW. Yesterday’s weather recorded no rainfall, with a maximum air temperature of 17.7 degrees Celsius and a total of 14 hours and 8 minutes of sunshine.
May 18, 2025. Currane Salmon anglers faced challenges across the board. However, there was a silver lining as Currane Sea Trout angler Mr. Adam Healy caught and released a fine 3 lbs Sea Trout while trolling and landed several Brown Trout. Currane’s weather of the day featured variable winds shifting from ESE to W and bright sunshine. Yesterday saw no rainfall, with a maximum air temperature of 22.2°C and 14 hours and 9 minutes of sunshine.
May 19, 2025. Anglers faced challenging conditions on Currane waters as they attempted to manipulate their lures under intense sunlight. Unfortunately, there were no reports of any catch-and-release Salmon or Sea Trout. The weather conditions for Currane today featured light to gentle and variable winds from the ESE, veering SE, SW, WSW, SW, and SSW. Yesterday’s meteorological data recorded no rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 19.3°C, and 15 hours of sunshine.
May 20, 2025. The Currane anglers experienced mostly cloudy conditions with very light rain followed by gentle to moderate variable winds from SSE, veering to S and SSW. Although the weather was generally reasonable, low water conditions persisted. No reports of any Salmon or Sea Trout catch and release were made. Yesterday’s weather included no rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 18.9°C, and 11 hours and 6 minutes of sunshine.
Vincent Appleby
Eureka Lodge, Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry.
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Sea Trout – Catch and release only
Inland Fisheries Ireland wishes to remind anglers that the Conservation of Sea Trout (No.7 or Kerry District) Waterville Area Bye-Law No. 971 of 2019 remains in effect. This Bye-law prohibits the retention and possession of any sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) taken by any fishing engine or by rod and line in the Waterville area i.e. that part of the sea eastward of a line drawn from the most westerly point of Bolus Head to the most westerly point of Lamb’s Head and to all the waters discharging in to it.
The Bye-Law mainly affects seatrout fishing on :-
- the river Inny (Knockmoyle) and its tributaries
- the waters of the Waterville system, including the Waterville River, Lough Currane, the Cummeragh River and all their tributary rivers and lakes
- the waters of Ballinskelligs Bay
For more information on the daily conditions, all the craic and news be sure to check out Vincent Appleby’s Salmon and Sea Trout blog for regular reports with back dates, petitions, public consultation notices, readers letters and videos and more of what’s happening on Currane.
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