Permits Available From: Lander’s, Tralee – O’Neill’s, Killarney – O’Sullivan’s Shop, Beaufort Bridge – Billy Cotter, see below. – Michael O’Shea, see below.
5 salmon landed on club waters, all coloured, best was 9lbs caught on a fly.
Go fishing…
The River Lee drains a catchment of 484 square miles of which much is taken up by two large reservoirs. Salmon Angling is confined to an 8 mile stretch from Inniscarra dam to Cork city.
Lee Salmon Anglers Club
The Lee Salmon Anglers club was established in 1967. It was formed by a group of anglers interested in protecting and promoting the sport of salmon and trout angling on the river Lee. Day tickets available: http://www.leesalmonanglers.ie/
Inniscarra Fishery
This salmon fishery is located between Cork City and the dam at Inniscarra (9 miles). The fishery is run by the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) and an ESB permit is required. There is a fair run of fish with a very good grilse run dependent on water. Permits can be purchased on site from Dan O’Riordan, ESB Inniscarra; 087-9983879.
The River Ilen is a medium size spate river that fishes best on a dropping flood for both salmon and sea trout. Spinning, worm and fly fishing are the methods used and allowed on club water.
The river is beautiful and a joy to fish, pools along club waters are easily accessible with seats, steps and stiles put in place for the anglers comfort. With selective tree pruning done along the river in recent years fly fishing has become a more available option especially on the lower river with numerous pools opened up to suit fly fishermen, night time fly fishing for sea trout is a pleasure with great stocks of trout entering the river from April.
18lb salmon about to be released by Mossy Browne #CPRsavesfish
Salmon fishing was reported as very good throughout the system with Trout fishing exceptional good as the season wound down. Fish were taking once again in the lower beats below Ballyduff and Lismore with a lot of anglers practising Catch, Photo, Release #CPR. This is good to see at any time but more so in the final week of the open season. It looks like having been a fantastic period on the Munster Blackwater and hopefully will finish the year on a continued high.
The Fortwilliam Fishery had as many as 18 salmon in a day in the last week of the season. And there were some fine sized salmon in the catches too. Mossy Browne caught and released a serious fish estimated at 18lb. This super fish wins Catch of the Week.
18lb salmon about to be released by Mossy Browne #CPRsavesfish
Glenda Powell tells us that there was some autumn lovely fishing in the last few days of the season on her beats too. The change in the weather really improved things for the anglers out for teh seaon’s close.
#CPRsavesfish
Go fishing…
Blackwater Salmon Fishery
Blackwater Salmon Fishery has 3 beats downstream of the weir and 2 upstream of the weir. Blackwater Salmon Fishery offers fishing on approximately 5 miles of the river Blackwater. The fishing is spread throughout the middle section of the river to offer good sport throughout the fishing season. Due to the location of the beats, fishing can still usually be offered in low or high water. Contact Glenda Powell: Lismore, Co Waterford, Email:[email protected] Mobile: +353 (0) 872351260 Telephone: +353 (0) 5853929 Web: www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com
Fortwilliam Fishery & Self-Catering Cottages
Fortwilliam Fishery offers two miles of double bank salmon and trout fishing over five beats on the river Blackwater.
Our salmon include – Springers, May Salmon, Grilse, Back End Salmon, and in Summer sea trout.
Our beats provide a wide variety of water, suitable for both beginners and the more experienced fishermen.
Fortwilliam Fishery, Glencairn, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland Web: www.fortwilliamfishing.ieEmail: [email protected] Tel: (00353) 87 8292077 or 058 75299
Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery
Ballyduff Bridge fisheries control a number of beats of the Munster Blackwater. The Ballyduff Bridge beat is almost a mile long offering a huge variety of water and is particularly suited to fly fishing. Upstream near the village of Ballyhooley (a few miles outside the town of Fermoy, Cork) we have two beats. The Ballincurrig Beat is one of the most beautiful locations along the river and has an excellent piece of fly water flowing into a deep pool. Just downstream on the opposite bank we have a short but productive beat, called Magners. This beat fishes also well in high water.
Careysville Fishery offers some of the best salmon fly fishing in Ireland and includes 26 named pools. It is considered by many to be one of premier beats for salmon fishing in Ireland. Wading is excellent and among the numerous streams, pools and glides there is a great variety of fly fishing to suit both complete novice and challenge the most competent of fly casters.
We provide Day Tickets for some prime Salmon fishing in Mallow Co. Cork. We have excellent fly water, shrimping worming and spinning also. We also have very competitive Day rates and we have very recently upgraded our fishing.
Tickets available from “The Bridge House” and “Vincent Downes Menswear” Mallow.
Located on the Munster Blackwater in the south of Ireland. Situated mid river between the towns of Fermoy and Mallow. A productive left bank beat in stunning surroundings.
For bookings contact Conor Arnold: +353 87 755 4682
For details on availability and conditions of fishing for salmon and trout on the Longueville House waters please contact them at Contact : Longueville House Hotel, William O’Callaghan Address : Mallow, Co. Cork. Telephone : 00 353 22 47156 Email:[email protected] Website: www.longuevillehouse.ie
It took a long time to play the fish to the shore where it could be safely released
Vincent Appleby reports from Lough Currane…
24/9/20 The Currane anglers were stranded on the shoreline as the yellow wind warning took control as the Northwest gales hammered the lake and veered North with no respite, but not all was lost as the heavens opened last night and early this morning, which made good fishing for the River Inny. Today’s weather as already stated. Yesterday’s weather, maximum air temperature 14.4 centigrade.
26/9/20 Calm to light and variable wind with bright sunshine all day and as you can see by the picture, not great fishing conditions, humidity 52%. So, to all you Currane Anglers who were disappointed with today’s fishing, click this link it might cheer you up.
27/9/20 There were at least 10 boats out manipulating this day, which was great to see, plus the majority were on the drift, by all accounts there was a nice mixture of Sea Trout and Brown Trout caught on the drift. In the Salmon drifting department one unlucky Currane fly Angler got into a fine Salmon but sadly My Noble Salmon was well educated saw that the anglers engine was down and headed straight for it and got an automatic catch and release, the rest is history. Wind light and variable and overcast, humidity 93%. Yesterday’s weather, maximum air temperature 13.9 centigrade.
Lough Currane on Monday
28/9/20 Going by the spy glasses just four boats out manipulating the Currane waters and going by the lack of texts it is all quiet in all departments. As you can see by the photos it was hard going with little enough wind from the Northwest and bright sunshine all day, humidity 87%. Yesterday’s weather, maximum air temperature 15.0 centigrade.
29/9/20 There were four boats out, two on the northside and two on the Southside and by all accounts their lines were slack, that’s only speculation on my part, what isn’t speculation, Kerry is on a yellow rain warning, their forecasting 25 to 40mm of rainfall for the Southwest and as we know tomorrow is the last day of the 2020 Salmon Season, so all bets are on the Currane anglers converting back to the Inny catch and release fly anglers. All I can say is tight lines to all the Waterville Fishery Anglers. Wind South Southwest light to fresh and overcast, humidity 85%. Yesterday’s weather, maximum air temperature 15.4 centigrade.
It took a long time to play the fish to the shore where it could be safely released
30/9/10 Covid 19 as we all know dictated proceedings this 2020 Salmon and Sea Trout season, especially denying long time and new Currane fly anglers coming from all over the World to this world famous Salmon and Seatrout Fishery, well I have great news in the Salmon department, Currane fly angler Mr. Phil Staniforth while fly fishing with his Gillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdom.com caught a cracker of a Salmon of 14 lbs. on a 6lbs leader and what a battle Phil had with this monster of a Salmon, it took 2 hours to safely manipulate this Currane fine Salmon into the shoreline so he could be put back, so congratulations to Phil, a day I’m sure you will never forget and the same goes to your Gillie Dominic. Weather wind Southwest and the photos tell it all on this last day of the 2020 Salmon Season.
1/10/20 All the Trout headlines go to the hired out boat department of Waterville Boats and at [email protected] and for good reason, an Currane fly angler, fishing out of [email protected] caught and released a cracker of a Brown Trout or it could be a Sea Trout ? For the rest of the Currane anglers all quiet. Wind light with good cloud cover, followed by heavy showers at times. Yesterday’s weather, maximum air temperature 14.3 centigrade.
The rivers and lakes of Waterville drain a large catchment and are regarded by many as the foremost Salmon and Sea-Trout fishery in the country. The lake system is well developed with access to boats and guides being readily available to the tourist angler. The Sea-Trout caught here are renowned for their size and quantity. For more details see
On the latest episode of the Ireland on the Fly podcast, Daire Whelan speaks to producer, Monica Hayes, about her six-part radio documentary series on the salmon for KCLR called Make Way for the King.
Make Way for the King is a documentary of interest not just to salmon anglers but to those worried about protecting the fish and Daire finds out about the past, present and future of salmon on the Nore.
Don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe to the Ireland on the Fly podcast on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts from and for more information to go to IrelandontheFly.com
River Moy at Foxford (image courtesy of Farson Digital Water Cams)
Foxford Salmon Anglers report…
The final tally for the last 3 days of this year’s salmon season… we have 37 fish reported with well over two-thirds released. There were more fish reported this year compared to the last number of years which is a welcome sign for the coming generations of fish and anglers. The biggest change we have witnessed is the fact that more anglers are releasing fish. Thank you all for your support over the year. A strange year, no doubt. Hopefully next year things will be better for us all.
After a fine second summer in the middle part of the month, the wind and rain came back with a bang this week with very stormy conditions off parts of the west coast and very heavy downpours in the east. It is noticeably cooler now and, with this year’s autumnal equinox occurring earlier this week (meaning that the night is now longer than the day), the salmon anglers and many of the trout anglers have begun to count the days, rather than the weeks, until the end of their season…
But fear not, there is still great fishing to be had if you know where to look for it and this week plenty of anglers knew exactly where to look, especially those fishing for big game species off our southern, western and northern shores where a great mixture of shark species and super bluefin tuna were caught. Indeed, that mysterious species the sixgill shark made its annual appearance alongside the Clare Dragoon fishing out of Carrigaholt; skipper Luke Aston continuing an uncanny roll of at least one sixgill a year since 2008! This year’s fish wins Luke our Catch of the Week. Another first for our reports this week was that we haven’t seen four of the West Cork charter fleet land at least one bluefin tuna each in the same week, well they performed that very feat this week, so good work and great fishing for them. Wreck fishing has been going well elsewhere with plenty of bluemouth and white fishes featuring in the reports.
Carrigaholt sixgills – thirteen good years and the winner of this week’s Catch of the Week
From the shore we have seen a very fine bass caught on the east coast and some unusual late summer visitors, the triggerfish, on the south coast. Anglers targeting bass, wrasse, pollock and smaller shore species have done pretty well around the coast when conditions allowed.
A smashing wrasse from the rocks
To freshwater and the pike fishing is starting to improve with the fish reacting to cooler conditions. Some bigger fish, the ones that have been sulking in deeper water during the summer months, are starting to make an appearance around the loughs and some good fishing has been had for pike and perch on the canals too.
A lovely perch from the Grand Canal
We would normally be reporting on a whole series of coarse angling festivals and events this time of year where hundreds of our regular UK visitors love to take part but, for obvious reasons, the coarse reports are few and far between this week; hopefully next year we’ll be back to angling normality.
Pike are stirring…
Fishing on the trout loughs has been tough and a return to early season tactics of stripping bushy wets or the traditional late season method of dapping daddys and crickets have been the most effective trout catching approaches. This time of year can throw up some good sized trout and David Smith found that out on Lough Erne last weekend with a fine late season trout as did young Harrison Browne fishing in the Wicklow hills. Away from the wilds and some of our own stocked rainbow trout lakes have fished really well in the last few weeks, particularly Loughs Fadda and Barfinnihy; permits are available from our online shop for those who are interested in getting a trout fix before season’s end.
Releasing a trout on Barfinnihy with a view of the Magillacuddy Reeks in the background
And so to the salmon and we are now in the final week of what was reported to have been one of the better seasons in recent times, it was certainly one of the better seasons for Michael Lynch from Clonmel who managed to catch (and release) a fantastic 42 inch salmon from the Suir back in August. We have only received information and photos of this fine fish in the last few days so we thought it was well worth a mention. Over on the Munster Blackwater the good salmon fishing has continued with a number of above average fish getting caught. Elsewhere the River Lee and the Moy both continued to produce fish but the Currane system remained relatively quiet as did the Laune.
Michael Lynch and his mighty Suir salmon
Inland Fisheries Ireland is reminding all salmon and sea trout anglers of the importance of returning their 2020 angling logbook and unused gill tags on time (by law angling logbook returns must be made by 19th October annually even if there is no catch recorded).
In other news, on Tuesday last, KCLR broadcast the third programme in the series ‘Make Way for the King‘. The series looks at the threats facing Atlantic Salmon both at sea and in the rivers and the conservation measures in place to protect them, well worth a listen.
And now the weather…
Predominantly dry tonight with clear spells, cold with lowest temperatures generally of 0°C to 4°C, slightly warmer in the southwest. Mist, fog and any frost will clear early Saturday to leave a dry day with spells of crisp autumn sunshine. Cool in light northerly breezes with highest temperatures 11°C to 14°C and another cold night overnight, a chilly -2°C to +2°C. Staying dry across most areas for daylight hours on Sunday with spells of autumn sunshine and light southerly breezes, highest temperatures 13°C to 17°C. Monday and Tuesday will see sunny spells and scattered showers, highest temperatures 14°C to 17°C.
Brian Cunningham enjoyed some great fishing in the the midlands at the weekend. Brian was out after pike and tells us that the fish were very active when he was on the Grand Canal.
A lovely perch from the Grand Canal
In a short 2 hour session Brian had 10 pike and a good number of lovely perch. All the fish were taken on hard plastic lures.
For the first (but hopefully not the last) time this year we have had reports of four of our bluefin tuna fleet from the Cork coast catching, tagging and releasing bluefin tuna this week as part of the Tuna CHART Programme.
Mark Gannon from Courtmacsherry Angling, Tom Collins from Sea Angling Charters, Dave Edwards from West Cork Charters and Adrian Nowotynski from Irish Deep Sea Charters all managed to get a bluefin alongside the boat this week; it was the first fish for some of the skippers after a number of previous attempts so it is great to see the effort and expense of targeting these underwater leviathans start to pay off.
A Courtmac bluefin duel at dusk for Ronan
The video below shot by David Norman aboard the Silver Dawn shows how easily a tagged tuna swims away from the custom made lip and grip tailer they use when tagging the fish alongside the boat.
In Donegal Bay the bluefin are still coming in thick and fast for skippers based on both sides of the shore. Ewings Sea Angling and Boat Charters and Kiwi Girl on the Sligo side have both been amongst the fish when the weather allowed while, from their Donegal bases, both Tuna.ie and Wildatlanticwayangling have also had a busy week.
Another beautiful bluefin for the Kiwi crew
Adrian Molloy shows us again this week what a skipper’s eye view of a big bluefin busting out after one of Deep Blue’s muppets looks like in the clip below – smashing stuff.
Authorised Vessels
Anglers wishing to engage in this fishery must only do so on a sea angling vessel specifically authorised to participate in the programme. Any person engaging in this fishery on any vessel which is not appropriately authorised will be in breach of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Bluefin Tuna) Regulations.
A full list of authorised skippers can be found below:
