Drowes dropping nicely

Drowes water levels rose to 0.77m over the past week and is falling nicely now giving excellent water levels. The run of fresh fish...
Ideal conditions at Brineys.

Very few fishing on Drowes but salmon to over 20lb landed

 Sunday 28th February 2020. The Drowes still has very good water levels and there seems to be a good run of fresh salmon. With the country...
Opening Day on the Drowes 2021

Drowes gets its first salmon of 2021

The River Drowes had its first salmon of the season on Friday. The honours went to local angler Joe Broderick from Bundoran. Joe caught...
Drowes prize

Drowes reopens in 3 short weeks, bar of silver for first salmon caught and...

Shane Gallagher reports from Drowes Fishery office... The 2021 salmon fishing season is due to commence in less than a month. At time of writing,...
Rainbow over Melvin

A couple of salmon reported from Melvin last week

Monday 16th   to Sunday 22nd March 2020 Melvin was fairly quiet over the week given Covid 19. There were a couple of lovely spring...
Easter on the Drowes

Not many on the Drowes but good numbers of salmon about

Monday 16th   to Sunday 22nd March 2020. The Drowes ran at nicer levels this week. On Monday the gauge read 0.84m and dropped over the...
A Choppy Melvin Where Many Fish Will Find Sanctuary Until Spawning In A Few Months Time.

A very quiet week on Lough Melvin

Monday 9th   to Sunday 15th March 2020. Melvin was fairly quiet over the week and it seems given the inclement weather at times and the...

Decent water on the Drowes, salmon to 12lb caught and released

Monday 9th   to Sunday 15th March 2020. The Drowes ran at nice levels at the start of the week reading 0.88m on the gauge. Heavy...
Rainbow over Melvin

Lough Melvin gets its first salmon of the season

Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th March 2020 The stormy and wet conditions on Melvin continued for the most part with Saturday being a very rough...
The River Drowes at Red Roof

Good fishing on the Drowes over the weekend

Monday 2nd   to Sunday 8th March 2020. The Drowes was still running at a high level on Monday (1.07m) but with the lower precipitation over...