Salmon fishing reports

Salmon fishing reports

Update: Salmon regulations 2026

Salmon Anglers: Open, closed and catch and release rivers, quotas and bye laws remain the same as in 2025 while the Department considers the views...

Ballisodare seeing grilse caught every day

Ballisodare Fishing Club report... Fishing The spring run of salmon at Ballisodare is essentially over for this season in Ballisodare. Numbers through the counter to end...
Eric Logan with his 8lb 4oz sea trout

Good sea trout fishing on Kylemore last week

Janet McDonnell from Kylemore House Fishery was in touch with a report of a very large trout caught by Eric Logan last week. The...
Ridge Pool at the Moy Fishery, Ballina

Fluctuating waters on the Moy but rise in water levels leads to Moy Fishery...

Moy Catchment Angling Report - Week ending 20-07-2025 Water levels at Ballylahan fluctuated greatly again this week rising sharply from 0.23 m on Sunday 13th...

Salmon catches on the up on the River Moy!

Kevin O'Boyle reports from the River Moy... The relaxing of Covid-19 travel restrictions from 10th May permitting inter-county travel stimulated increased angling on the River...
Ridge Pool at the Moy Fishery, Co Mayo, which is now closed to angling

River Moy Angling Report week ending 10 August 2025

Michael Murphy reports from the River Moy... River Moy Report -Week ending 10-08-2025 Still lower than usual angling activity reported on a lot of fisheries in...

First salmon of the season caught on Carrowmore Lake & Lough Beltra

Carrowmore Lake near Bangor Erris in County Mayo is renowned as a great spring salmon venue, and quite often the first salmon of the...

Moy Estuary produces some nice sea trout

Skipper Judd Ruane reports from the Moy Estuary... Now that water levels have dropped angling conditions on the Moy Estuary have improved immensely with good...

The best salmon fishing advice ever received

Noel Fitzmaurice of Blackwater Salmon Fishery passes on some wisdom he received from two wise old angling sages when he was but a young...
Water on a weir

A couple of fresh fish in Galway get the season going

April saw water levels remain high in Galway, with little angling until the last few days of the month, when the weir was closed...