Vincent Appleby gives his weekly round up on the fishing in the waterville area.
15/7/2026, Just three Currane boats out, and sadly no reports of any C&R Salmon or Sea Trout.
Straight to the Currane tropical weather chart: cloudy in the morning, followed by bright sunshine as the wind wandered lightly from E, veering ESE, SE, SSW, SW, WSW, WNW, and finally W.
Yesterday’s weather, Rainfall, 0.0 mm, Maximum air temperature, 26.4°C, Sunshine, 14.
16/7/2026. No Currane boats headed out today, and hardly a shock considering the conditions. So it’s straight to the Waterville Fishery weather report: a variable wind swinging from NNE to N, NNW, WNW, NW, back to NW, and finally settling at N, all under a blazing sun from dawn to dusk.
Yesterday’s weather: Rainfall: 0.0 mm, Maximum air temperature: 25.9°C, Sunshine: 3 hours 2 minutes
It’s been a fair stretch since we’ve had a Currane angler’s point of view on the wild Atlantic Salmon, and one thing’s for sure, the Salmon are feeling the heat as much as we are. Low water, bright skies, and a stubborn northerly don’t exactly inspire them to show themselves. Still, that’s fishing: the waiting, the watching, and the hope that the next cast will break the silence
Now Currane angler has view, I hear the draft nets have had a record year, filling their quotas in no time and with top quality salmon to boot. Yet we anglers aren’t allowed to keep a single fish in September. How can that be right? The weather has been brutal for fishing, the rod effort is tiny, and still the rule stands. Meanwhile, hundreds of salmon are taken in the drift nets, and we can’t keep even one. It’s a bloody disgrace, plain and simple. Tom.
Tom has had his say. Now the Mad Fisherman has his say on his video; just click www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLVdygaiR-Q
17/7/2026. There were two Currane boats out, and all lines remained slack on this bright, sun‑soaked day. So it’s straight to the Currane Anglers Weather Chart, wind light to moderate from the NNE, later veering North, all under blazing sunshine.
Yesterday’s weather, Rainfall: 0.0 mm, Max air temperature, 25.8°C
Sunshine, 14 hours 1 minute.
18/7/2026. Just the odd Currane boat out today, and sadly no reports of any C&R to brighten the brighten the day up, as for the Currane anglers’ weather chart, wind NE, light to moderate, and the lake was under the command of bright sunshine from dawn to dusk. Yesterday’s weather: rainfall 0.0mm, maximum air temperature 22.2°C, and a cracking 14 hours 9 minutes of sunshine.
19/7/2026. No reports from the Currane anglers on this bright and sun-soaked day, and by the looks of things, not a cloud in sight to give them cover. One might say the anglers were as scarce as a salmon on a scorching July noon, or perhaps they took one look at the blazing conditions and wisely declared it a day for the deckchair rather than the drift. On the Currane weather chart, the wind started light to moderate NE, later veering NNE. Yesterday’s weather, Rainfall 0.0 mm, Max air temperature, 20.7°C, Sunshine: 14 hours and 6 minutes.
In other words, a grand day for sunburn, a poor day for salmon, and a suspiciously quiet day for the Currane anglers, but we won’t hold that against them.
20 July 2026. The photos say it all on Lough Currane today, capturing the Currane anglers in their full glory. Turning to the photographer’s weather chart, we were under a gentle to moderate NNE breeze, shifting now and again just to add character to the day. As for yesterday, the stats speak for themselves: not a drop of rain, a balmy 22.0°C at its peak, and an impressive 15 hours of sunshine lighting up the Kingdom.
21/7/2026. The Currane anglers were all quiet today. On the weather front, it was much the same as yesterday, except there was some good cloud cover this morning. Come the afternoon, bright sunshine took over for the rest of the day. Now for the Currane anglers’ weather chart, wind gentle to moderate NE, veering NNE.
Just for the record, that doesn’t mean that my noble Currane angler didn’t catch a Salmon or C&R Sea Trout the same goes for the past week.
For more information on the daily conditions on Lough Currane, 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 in Waterville and beyond
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
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