Darren Haire With His 17lbs Fish On Prawn From The Sea Pools Today.
The water level has dropped to just over 0.7 metres on the gauge by 9pm this evening. There are still good numbers of fresh grilse and some larger fish running. The drop in water levels has improved fly fishing conditions and good numbers of fish have been taken on fly in recent days. Rain is forecast for Thursday night and Friday, mainly in the south, with heavier more persistent rain returning at the start of next week.
Walter Huldi With His 8lbs Fish On Fly From The Mill Pool Yesterday Evening.
John O’ Neil Had These Three Fish On A Size 8 Double Snaelda Fly From Brineys And Lennox’s This Morning.
Darren Haire With His 17lbs Fish On Prawn From The Sea Pools Today.
Herbert With His Fish From The Red Roof On Worm Today.
The week got off to a real good start for Trevor Norris from Derry. Using klinkhammers and olives he hooked and released eleven trout which averaged 2.5lb. Jim Russell and Danny Walker (Newtownabbey) accompanied by Danny’s 15-year-old son Ryan spent a beautiful day using suspender buzzers which bagged them two each for home and another seven trout in total which were released back into the lake. Unfortunately, these anglers lost around a dozen trout which seemed to take their flies. Maghera’s Daniel Reilly, spent a couple of hours on Sunday evening banking him one trout which took a wee dry fly.
Well done to all!
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Robert Tamer, Poland, with his pike of 32lbs, Lough Corrib, May 2012. The fish had been caught and released a week earlier prior to spawning when it weighed 35.5lbs.
On the pike fishing front, Tomi Kurman from the Corrib Predator Team reported on some great fishing during May for Tomi, fellow guide Jack Gorny, and their clients. On many days they recorded landing several fish over 1m long, with many fish in low to mid-twenties in weight, but these were dwarfed by their best fish. A member of Hybrida Team Ireland- Maciej Dukacz – landed a beast of 123cm and 16.1kgs (35.5lbs)! The fish took a Hybrida J2 Jerkbait. 6 days later another one of their guests- Robert Tamer – caught the very same fish! In the space of the week she had lost some weight (due to late spawning) and on the second capture she weighed 14.55kgs (32lb).
Maciej Dukacz with a huge 35.5lbs pike, Lough Corrib, May 2012Robert Tamer, Poland, with his pike of 32lbs, Lough Corrib, May 2012. The fish had been caught and released a week earlier prior to spawning when it weighed 35.5lbs.
Fishery manager Colin Folan reported that high water and higher winds have helped freshen and cool down the fishery this week. Although there are not too many fresh fish entering, there is a feeling that something is about to happen. Angling effort has slowed down considerably, but with September only around the corner, it will improve. Last season the top month for all species was September.
Forty-two rods fished this week and recorded 8 salmon and 60 sea trout. Michael Heery from Dublin fished Inagh for two days and recorded three grilse of 4-6lbs, 11 sea trout to 1.5lbs, and a char. Top flies for Michael were his own version of a Green Dabbler, and his own creation the Snow White. The Barton party from Galway consisting of 8 rods fished Inagh for a day and recorded 16 sea trout to 2.5lbs and a 5lbs grilse, top flies for the group were the Silver Daddy and Green Sedgehog. Vincent Foley had two grilse this week for three short sessions on both the lake and river, best fish was 6lbs, and Colin Murphy, Co. Galway, also took a 6lbs grilse on a Silver Daddy from Inagh. Colin Folan also had 2 grilse this week, one monster of 3lbs from Corloo and a 6lbs fresh fish from Inagh, both returned.
Nigel Rush reports that Kylemore Abbey Fishery enjoyed more success over the last few days, with Colm Gallagher landing his first Dawros fish, a grilse of 3lbs from the Lunch Pool, and Hugh Maguire landed a 6lbs fish off the Middle River, both fish taken on the Kylemore Killer pattern. Michael Gallagher landed a 4.5lbs fish from Siddies Pool on the Lower River, and had another fish of 4.25lbs the following day. Neil Spellacy landed 2 fish, both approx. 3.5lbs, from Lavelle’s Pools on the Lower River, both taken on a Galway Black and Yellow fly.
Water levels are dropping away again after last week’s heavy rain, but a lot of fish have been seen in the river, with good numbers of sea trout also starting to appear, although fishing effort on the lakes has been very low so far.
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Monday at 12.57pm: The upper river is still holding it’s level – it hasn’t fallen at all since early morning.
One fish ~8lb on spinner reported from our very top beat 28 miles upstream.
The clarity is excellent. 2+ feet downriver & 3 feet upriver. The height is holding. At Ballyduff it has held @ 0.95m since 21.00 yesterday evening. It is only down a few centimetres over night at Killavullen too. This will help to encourage fresh fish to move in especially as the water is so clear for the height it is at!
Later at 17.19pm: 12lb sea-liced fish on spinner on the upper river – just reported! Four fish in total for the 11th. of 7, 8.5 11 & 12lb. all from the upper river. 3 on spinner & 1 on worms. One sea-liced & the others all very fresh. The river is still only dropping extremely slowly.
Tuesday : The river is now starting to fall a bit more rapidly than before. The upper river is now only 26cm above the level it was on June 6th. – which was the best Day of the Season.
The lower river was @ 0.82m this morning – still too high for wading on the lower beats. The clarity is excellent at 3-4 feet.
The sea-liced fish guesstimated when caught at 11-12lb. yesterday on Woodstream was finally weighed in at 10.5lb. With the clarity improving rapidly & already excellent, prospects are extremely good for the next couple of days. More rain is due Thursday night!
Wednesday: The Kanturk river (one of the major tributaries above Mallow) was in dirty flood yesterday afternoon following very heavy localised showers. This pushed the river at Killavullen up 15cm last night but it is already back down 10cm. The clarity is not great however & the upper river is borderline spinnable.
Down at Ballyduff, the river is up 6cm to 0.86m this morning but the clarity is good.
There were 3 fish to 6lb caught yesterday. All were sea-liced & all on spinner. One from the lower river & 2 from the upper.
Thursday: The upper river cleared quickly this morning & was fly-fishable. No fish caught above as only one rod out for a couple of hours. The lower river dropped steadily during the day. Just one 5 pounder was caught on spinner on Kilmurry. There was a run of “VERY” large fish seen going thru’ Kents today on the lower river.
Philip Maher from FishHunt tells us of a wonderful 18.5lb Salmon landed on the Upper Beat picture below
Blackwater 18.5lb salmon
And also congrats to all as they have a 100% pass rate for candidates at GAIA certifications in Moorbrook last weekend. Fishhunt’s own Ann Maher passed her GAIA single handed as did Myles Kelly (IFI) and Jamie Crane. Tommy Farrell passed his GAIC double handed. A super venue and a great weekend. Well done!
Philip Maher Fishhunt
Water levels dropping back after flood
Water levels are dropping back once again after a huge flood which peaked just over 4 meters. Clarity is not bad for spinning but still too high for fly fishing. One fish landed today off the Golf beat by Eddie O’Brien from Wateford. Fish was 5lbs and landed on spinner. Another angler who was out lost a fish about the same size. Good reports of fish being landed upstream so its worth heading before the next rise, as the forecast isn’t good.
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Well despite optimism that rainfall would not result in much increased water levels, the OPW who control the weir in Galway opened 6 gates this week, even though the lake did not rise that much. Hopefully this will allow the excess water to run off quickly and gates to be closed sooner, or we might have no water left in Lough Corrib at all.
Despite the flood, 26 salmon were landed for the week, with the shrimp being more successful in the heavy conditions than over the last few weeks. More and more grilse are starting to appear, and are dominating catches now, although there were one or two good fish landed as well. Former fishery manager Ned Cusack had a 4.5lbs grilse on shrimp, while Mossy Browne from Waterford had a nice fish on fly. John Anderson from Moycullen took 2 grilse on fly, while UK visitor landed 4 fish over 2 days, including 3 grilse and a nice 8.5lbs salmon, all on fly. Terry McDermott from Northern Ireland had a fine day, landing 3 grilse on fly, while Paul Gallagher from Donegal took 3 fish to 8.5lbs on fly and shrimp. UK visitor Simon White had a nice 6lbs grilse on shrimp, and Headford angler John Minnock took 2 grilse on shrimp. Swords native Padraic Cullen had a grilse on shrimp, while Clare man Michael Browne took 2 grilse on shrimp, as did Des Bluett from Galway. The fish of the week, though, was a cracking 17lbs salmon landed by regular visitor from Dublin, Michael Rodgers, taken on spinner.
With rain forecast it looks unlikely that levels will be lowered in the next couple of days, but anglers are hopeful that a few gates will be closed in the next week. Good numbers of salmon are running the river, and given a drop in water level, prospects here are very good for the coming weeks.
Michael Rodgers, Dublin, with a fine 17lbs salmon taken at the Galway Fishery, June 2012
With recent flood waters receding both the Rye and Liffey (Carton also has access to some of the more productive beats on the Liffey) have fished well over the last few days as the photo below will testify to. With some colour in the water, fishing with nymphs proved to be very productive – one pattern in particular (a hares ear with rubber legs) fishing its socks off.
The stocked lake has also seen some action over the last week with one family in particular having a ball – with several fish of over 4lb landed. These fish are in fantastic condition at the moment with the rainbows in particular taking off like the clappers and screaming reels being the order of the day.
Recent visiting anglers have included John Buckley of Irish Angler fame and Steve Cullen of Total Fly Fisher who fished both the river and stocked water.
Weather conditions are said to improve from mid week on which should see a return to more favourable conditions, in which case fishing the evening ‘rise’ should prove to be both a pleasant and productive experience.
Rob Love, Carton House Fishery,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare
Ireland
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As anticipated the packs of spurs are heading up the channel. Specimen hunting is in full swing now , but we are still getting tortured by skate which are hunting them down. One skate we caught spat out 2 half spurdogs and other bits of fish along with a small conger. There were some nice spurs for the lads from County Cavan. Spurdog fishing will continue for at least another month until I start targeting larger craters slightly more toothy and with attitude!!!
