Monday 12th to Sunday 18th March 2018.
Water levels were nice all week with the gauge averaging around 0.52m. The gauge read 0.51m at the start and the end of the week but Saturday saw the river rise slightly to 0.55. We had some lovely sunny and dry days but air temperatures were very low.
Despite the cold there was definitely a touch of Spring in the air. The fish seemed to respond and there was a decent run of Spring Salmon into the fishery over the week with good numbers of double figure salmon in this run. The fishing picked up spectacularly this week with over 20 salmon to 14lb! Given here are some of the catches.
On Thursday, Joe Broderick caught and released a salmon from the Perch Pool and Johnny Ciconte recorded an 11lb salmon caught from Money Hole.
On Friday, Stephen Smyth reported a 10lb salmon caught from Lennox’s.
On Saturday, Michael Joyce recorded a 6lb fish caught from Briney’s.
On Sunday, Davy Gray reported 2 salmon weighing 14lb and 8lb caught on prawn from Money Hole with the smaller of these being released again and Patrick O’Leary caught and released 2 salmon caught on a fly from the Mill Pool.
Water levels remain nice and the prospects for the coming week look very good
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River Drowes
The Drowes Fishery is one of Ireland’s premier spring salmon and grilse fisheries. The river is some 5 miles in length, with over 70 named pools, flowing from Lough Melvin at Lareen Bay and entering the sea at Tullaghan, just outside Bundoran. The Drowes has a wide variety of water suitable for all fishing methods, including several miles of good fly water and deeper slower moving pools suitable for spinning and bait fishing.
For information and bookings on the Drowes Fishery & Lough Melvin see http://www.drowessalmonfishery.com
Tel: 071 9841055 (8am to 12 noon).
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