Tony Parker with his fish on fly from the Mill pool on Monday. Tony released his first 2 fish this season.

Drowes fishes well with over 30 salmon recorded so far this month

Shane Gallagher, fishery manager at the Drowes Salmon Fishery reports: 8th May - Fishing has been reasonably good since the start of May with multiple...
Sean McNiece 15.5lb salmon

Drowes fished well with 15½ lb. salmon on Monday

Lindsey Clarke reports from the RIVER DROWES – Monday 27th April to Sunday 3rd May 2015. The weather this week was more wintery with much colder...

Good water but few salmon from the Drowes last week

 26 April: The settled dry weather continued this week up until the weekend with bright sun and lovely spring conditions prevailing. This did not...
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9.5lb trout and 4 salmon on the troll on Melvin

The week brought very sunny bright conditions with variable winds which were light for the most part. Angling pressure was light on the lough....
Harry Lloyd logged a spring salmon caught on a Rapala lure from The Meadow

Lovely water on the Drowes but sun spoiled fishing

This week brought lovely weather with the days dry and sunny. Spring is definitely here and in fact it felt more like summer evidenced...

Three Melvin salmon around 9lb caught on troll last week

Monday to Friday brought bright and sunny weather which were not ideal angling conditions and winter seemed to return at the weekend with strong...
D. McKee registered an 11lb salmon caught on Worm from the Mill Pool

Lovely water on the Drowes but bright, 15 salmon caught for the week

Monday to Friday brought summer like conditions with little wind, warm air temperatures and bright sunshine. Hardly ideal salmon angling conditions but it was...

3 salmon for one angler an Easter treat on Melvin

05 April: The weather over the week was very rough with strong winds, rain and low air temperatures. The weekend was busier with a number...
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Drowes fished well last week, spinners did best

05 April: The first 5 days of the week brought wet, windy and cold weather conditions which were distinctly unpleasant! Easter Saturday and Sunday however...
Brian Mc Evoy's released fish from the Meadow on Thursday. Photo courtesy Brian Mc Evoy.

Hot firetiger rapala blazes a trail of good fishing on the Drowes

Fishery manager Shane Gallagher reports on all the activities from the Drowes: Fishing has again been pretty mixed this week. The weather turned very cold,...