Water badly needed to improve fishing on the Drowes

Lindsey Clarke reports that the Drowes is low and fishing is quiet… The Drowes continued to run at low levels all week again. The fishery...
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Drowes very low and very few salmon caught

Lindsey Clarke reports that water levels have continued to fall on the Drowes and few fish are being caught… The Drowes ran at very low...

A few grilse taken from the Drowes but anglers want more water

Lindsey Clarke reports that though the Drowes is quite low a few grilse were landed during the week... Once again the river ran at low...
Brian Carty With His 14.5lbs Fish From The Sea Pool On Fly on Sunday Evening

Drowes still low but a couple of nice fish about

Shane Gallagher reports that water levels remain low on the Drowes despite recent heavy rain but some good salmon were taken nonetheless... 18/08: There was...

Sonaghan trout on wet flies on Lough Melvin but in general a quiet week

Lindsey Clarke IFI reports from Lough Melvin – Monday 29th July  to Sunday 4th August 2013. Lough Melvin was fairly quiet this week. I did...

Anglers wait for more desirable water levels on the Drowes

Lindsey Clarke IFI reports from the Drowes - Week Monday 29th July  to Sunday 4th August 2013 The river continued to drop over the start...
Virgilio Alonso With A good Grilse from last week

Bright sun made fishing tough on the Drowes last week

Fishing slowed considerably last week as the long hot dry spell continued and water levels dropped further. The gauge at the Four Masters’ Bridge...

Water temperatures at 17◦ make fishing difficult but not impossible on the Drowes

The weather has been the main talking point on the river over the past week. Temperatures since the weekend have reached up to...

Good grilse run on the Drowes, anglers catches up

Lindsey Clarke reports that there was some rainfall on the Drowes last week but this had little effect on water levels. At the start...

Plenty of grilse in Melvin, but not taking well

Melvin did not fish particularly well last week. There was a number of grilse recorded but not in the numbers one would expect given...