Salmon fishing reports

Salmon fishing reports

Wind ESE light with reasonable cloud cover, air temperature 7c felt like 5c

No salmon as storm brews on Lough Currane

Vincent Appleby reports on the first week of the season on Lough Currane… 18 Jan - 24 Jan There have been a few boats manipulating but...
Opening day on Lough Currane

Mixed emotions for Currane anglers as salmon season opens

Vincent Appleby reports from Waterville in the Kingdom of Kerry where the salmon season opened on Lough Currane... 17/1/17 Its great to be back in...

Salmon watch – 9 days and counting

Shane Gallagher from the Drowes Fishery reports that anglers are doing their part but despite good conditions the first salmon is yet to be...
Gareth Mc Ateer in action on the Mill Pool on New Years Day 2017

The start of a new season on the Drowes

Fishery manager Shane Gallagher reports from the Drowes as we start a new season: The first days of the 2017 salmon season has ended without...

73 rivers open for salmon angling in 2017 

Minister Orders  review of “Catch and Release” Element of Fisheries Management Policy Mr. Sean Kyne T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Climate...
Paul Lawton

Paul Lawton strikes on the last day at the Currane

Guide Vincent Appleby reports from Lough Currane where floods are causing problems… 12/10/16 On this Last day of the 2016 rising of the wild Game fish...

25 salmon on the last day at Delphi

David McEvoy from Delphi tells us of the last day frenzy when anglers made up for lost time during the floods: The 2016 angling season...

Last week on Erriff produces grilse and sea trout

Fishery manager Osgur Grieve reports that the final 5 days of the angling season produced 1 grilse and 5 sea trout. “We had good...
Padraic Fahy with the best Lough Inagh sea trout of 2016, a beautiful fish of approx. 5lbs

Good season on Inagh comes to a close

Fishery manager Colin Folan reports on a decent season for 2016. Very little rain early in the season did not help the early run...
Giuseppe Messina from Italy releases an August grilse on the Moy Fishery

Disappointment with catches as salmon season closes on the Moy

Salmon angling on the River Moy was patchy in the 2016 season. The final figure for the entire catchment was just over 6,000 salmon,...