Ghillie Vincent Appleby reports on the salmon and sea trout fishing in the past week on Lough Currane from his blog at http://wwwsalmonandseatroutphotos.blogspot.com/
15/5/14 Straight to the belated Salmon department, last night Vincent’s Son-in-law Mr. Tam Hitmiangsong of Waterville, caught a fine Salmon on the troll in the 9 lbs class, on that note I will go straight to his quote of the day, What honorable Father-in-law can do in the morning, honorable Son-in-law can do in the evening, what dose this mean in practical terms, if you are out there you can catch honorable Salmon and its better than nursing honorable hangover, ah that reminds me, must go to Lobster Bar to celebrate, cheers. Now today’s facts there isn’t any, and not surprising with bright sunshine and very little wind and what wind was there was from the SW light.
16/5/14 My Noble Salmon were well smoked out to day and for good reason because someone didn’t use their intelligence the good Lord gave them by lighting a lunchtime fire? Right beside the Edery Bay Forestry and thank God for the Kerry Fire Service who I might add did a first class job in saving this wild beauty spot, and to all you punters out their enjoying yourselves think before you light because you put these firemen’s lives at risk and maybe putting someone else’s life at risk because there is no Fire Crew to come to their rescue. I will let the pictures tell the story. I will finish today’s note by saying no wonder my Noble Salmon stayed deep. Wind SW light to fresh.
17/5/14 My Noble Anglers went out firing on all cylinders’ on Lough Curran today after yesterday’s excitement, and first in the striking zone was our Honourable secretary of www.loughcurrane.com Mr. Kevin O’Sullivan of Waterville, who caught a fine Grilse. Now for catch of the day and that goes to Mr. Ken Towner of the UK and Waterville, who caught a cracker of a salmon weighing in at 10 lb. 9 oz on the drift off Church Island, and for the rest of the angling community, they failed miserably in their duties in the Salmon department. Now to the Sea Trout department, Mr. Harry Edghill fishing with his ghillie Mr. Tom O’Shea of www.flyfishingatloughcurrane.com caught a fine Sea Trout in the 2 lb. class on the troll. Wind SW light to fresh with reasonable cloud cover at times. 18/5/14 There was great action on Lough Currane today in the trolling department. We start on the North side and Waterville Boats and first in the striking zone was Mr. Trevor Dewberry of the UK, who caught a cracker of a Salmon weighing in at 10 lbs. while fishing with his Gillie Mr. Michael O’Sullivan of Waterville Boats and at [email protected] and in Michael’s Hired out Boat Department. Mr. Andy Wishart of Northern Ireland also caught a cracker of a Salmon on the troll in the 9 lbs. class.
Now we cut across to the South side. Swiss Angler, Mr. Frank Rossat fishing with his ghillie Mr. Frank Donnelly of www.lakelandshouse.com caught a fine 9 lb. salmon on the troll. Now we head to the western end of Lough Currane, Local ghillie Mr. Bob Priestley caught a Salmon on the troll and last but not least an Angler fishing on his own also caught a fine Salmon on the troll. Wind SW light with reasonable cloud cover this morning and bright sunshine all afternoon. 19/5/14 After yesterday’s fine action on Lough Currane, My Noble Salmon were in a benign mood, in other words, the Lough Currane Anglers failed miserably in all departments, at least the fly anglers had an excuse as you can see by the wind report, what’s that I here you say? I am full of it, well yes I agree, but there is a simple remedy, let the Salmon and Sea Trout do the talking. Wind NE light to calm and overcast with light rain this evening. 20/5/14 There were at least 10 boats out manipulating in all departments and all failed in their duties to procure the wild Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout, so on that note I will go to the valid excuse department, very humid and thundery, www.met.ie put out a yellow alert for flash flooding, so far its North Kerry, that’s had the brunt of the flash flood storm, I think one of the reasons we have missed it so far, the wind was coming from the West and has just veered into the NE, so ready and waiting? 21/5/14 There was some great fishing on the Waterville Fishery today, so straight to the action, first in the striking zone was Mr. Andy Wishart of Northern Ireland, who caught a fine 11 lb. salmon on the troll at 9 am this morning even before his ghillie Mr. Dominic McGillicuddy of www.fishingwithdowww.fishingwithdom.com had arrived to take Andy out, well I can tell you it wasn’t long before their trolling rod went off again with another fine Salmon in the 11 lbs. class. Also in good form in the trolling department was Mr. Liam Ellis of Waterville, who also caught a fine 10 ½ lbs. Salmon on the troll. Now to the fly department, Mr. Marcel Guillou of the UK caught a fine 11 lb. Salmon on the Fly with a Trout rod and by all accounts going by what his Gillie Mr. Vincent O’Sullivan of www.vincentsfishing.com said, Marcel had one almighty battle with his noble Salmon and the rest is history. Now to the Sea Trout department, Mr. Arthur White of the UK fishing with his Gillie Mr. Bob Priestly caught a fine 4 lb. sea trout on the troll. Well the action didn’t stop there, upstream on the Commeragh River, there was also some fine action, first in the striking zone, fishing with the Black Birds fancy, was Mr. Mike Teahan the Matador of Waterville and the Bull Ring, Tralee, who caught 2 Salmon ranging from 8 lb. up to 10 lbs. Sadly I only got a photo of his first Salmon. And last but not least Jean from France and fishing out of www.kbfishingireland.com caught a fine 6 ½ lbs. Salmon and also caught another fine Salmon which he sportingly put back both fish were caught on the lower part of the Commeragh River. Wind was all over the place and light, with bright sunshine and just for the record it made 17.5 mm of rainfall yesterday.
22/5/14 Mr. Arthur White of the UK and his ghillie Mr. Bob Priestly take all the headlines, Arthur, caught a fine Grilse in the 6 lb. class and finished his day off with a fine Sea Trout in the 2 lb. class, both caught on the troll and staying in the Sea trout department, guests fishing with their Gillie Mr. Frank Donnelly of www.lakelandshouse.com also caught 2 fine Sea Trout in the 2 lb. class. Wind was NE fresh to strong with showers and very cold, amount of rainfall yesterday was 7.2mm.
Vincent Appleby Eureka Lodge Caherdaniel West, Co. Kerry. Telephone: +353 (0)66 9475248 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.salmonandseatrout.com
