Vincent Appleby is joined by The Currane Angler in this week’s reports from Lough Currane…
May 1, 2025. The Currane Salmon and Sea Trout anglers experienced a quiet day due to the exceptionally hot weather with minimal cloud cover and a gentle Northeast wind, which affected their fishing conditions. The weather for the previous day reported no rainfall and a maximum air temperature of 24.7°C, with a total of 13 hours and 4 minutes of sunshine. The rainfall for April amounted to 97.4mm.
May 2, 2025. The weather conditions today were very hot for the six Currane boats fishing on Lough Currane. It was evident that the primary outcome of the day was their need for suntan lotion. Regarding today’s weather, the wind was moderate from the northeast and variable, accompanied by clear blue skies throughout the day. Yesterday’s weather recorded no rainfall, with a maximum air temperature of 19.0°C and a total of 13 hours and 6 minutes of sunshine.
May 3, 2025. The anglers at Currane experienced another challenging day in their pursuit of salmon and sea trout. This can be attributed to the bright and sunny weather conditions, accompanied by a gentle to moderate variable northeast wind. The only alleviating factor was an increase in cloud cover and slightly cooler temperatures. The previous day’s weather recorded no rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 16.2°C, and 13 hours and 5 minutes of sunshine.
May 4, 2025. The Currane anglers experienced another sunny day with no reported catch and releases, likely due to the weather conditions. The wind was variable, ranging from gentle to moderate Northeast, accompanied by clear blue skies. Regarding yesterday’s weather, there was no recorded rainfall, the maximum air temperature was 16.2°C, and there were 13 hours and 8 minutes of sunshine.
May 5, 2025. There were no reports from the catch and release Salmon and Sea Trout Currane anglers on this bright and sunny day, despite intermittent periods of reasonable cloud cover. Regarding wind directions, there was a variable gentle breeze originating from the ESE, which shifted to SE, SSE, WSW, and W. The previous day’s weather included no recorded rainfall, with a maximum air temperature of 15.3°C, and total sunshine duration of 14 hours and 14 minutes.
May 6, 2025. According to a Currane angler,
“The lake was lower before the flood, and there is no argument to that. However, as observed in the video, it remains low, which is not surprising given the prevailing East winds.”
As indicated in my report, there were no activity reports from Currane anglers. Today’s weather at Currane features variable light to gentle winds from the Southeast, shifting to South, Southwest, and West-Southwest, accompanied by mainly clear skies. Yesterday’s weather recorded no rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 14.7°C, and 14 hours and 2 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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