Fishing Low and Slow on Blackwater

Very quiet, few nice fish around Lismore mostly, but no great run of fish showing. Low water levels but rain is forecast for the coming...
Peace and quiet on the Blackwater.

Munster Blackwater very low, fishing slow

Very few fish reported from most areas and things have carried on from last week’s decrease in activity. River is very low at present. Rain is...
Munster Blackwater

Low water impacts angling on Blackwater

River levels have dropped off over the last week and fishing conditions on the main channel were more challenging and subsequently the effort also...
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Some good salmon and an early grilse on the Blackwater

Salmon fishing has picked up throughout the system with some nice fish seen and lost. Reports of a fresh grilse of about 3lbs caught...
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A few salmon running the Blackwater, conditions are good

Earlier in the week with the gauge at Fortwilliam reading 0.28 Chris Coady had a cracking fish on the fly off the Glenmore beat....
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Not many fishing the Blackwater but fresh salmon about

Very Few fishing on the Blackwater due to the lockdown, but there are a few fresh fish coming up the river. Glenda Powell caught...
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Five more salmon reported from the Munster Blackwater

Reports of 2 Salmon caught in Ballyhooley/Killavullen area this week. One of these was caught on March 7th. Noel Crowley tells us it was...
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A quest for salmon – one man’s journey

Last week we watched a review of Marcin Kantor's pike season and this week we switch gears and follow along with Marcin as he...

Blackwater’s first salmon of the season caught at Careysville

Well it's taken a full week and a half, but the Munster Blackwater finally got its first salmon of the season. The fish was...
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Floods spoil opening day on the Munster Blackwater

Salmon anglers who were looking forward to getting out on the Munster Blackwater yesterday were disappointed with the floods that put a stop to...