Salmon and trout angling | Coarse angling
By Lindsey Clarke
Monday 6th to Sunday 12th August 2007.
The Drowes continues to fish well with good numbers of grilse being caught. The spring tides early next week should mean the good runs of fish will continue. Some of the recorded catches are given here.
C. Fitzpatrick caught a 5lbs grilse from the Dark Hole on worm. C. Gardiner accounted for a 4½lb grilse caught on shrimp from the Sea Pool. T. Parker recorded 3 grilse caught from the Mill Pool. The fish weighed from 4 to 6lb and were caught on an Ally’s Cascade fly. G. Morrow recorded 2 grilse caught on shrimp. They weighed 5 & 7lb and were caught from McGroary’s and the Island Pool. J. English recorded a 9lb salmon caught from the Sea Pools on shrimp. B. Carty accounted for a 4lb grilse caught from Stakey’s on fly and A. Fullerton caught a 4lb grilse on the fly from the Red Roof. There is good water at present in the Drowes River with the gauge reading 6, allied to the forecast of more rain to come this week should ensure the river has good levels for the coming week.
The Lough has been fairly quiet this week. With the wet and variable weather few anglers ventured out on the Lough.
There were some good conditions this week on the Eany Fishery with plenty of rainfall giving a number of floods. On Saturday the river kept rising to give a big flood reading 1.70 metres by the end of the day making the river virtually unfishable! There was a huge gauge average for the week which read 0.75 metres! The week was busy with 80 visiting rods fishing for the week, 44 of these over the weekend.
There were good numbers of salmon caught over the week. The best fish of the week was caught on Monday by Fred Henry and weighed 15½lb. It was caught from The Devlin on spinner. On the same day John O’Donnell recorded 2 fish weighing 2 and 5lb caught on the spinner. Martin Rose accounted for a 7lb fish also caught on the spinner. On Tuesday, Alan Cully recorded a 4lb grilse caught from Bonnyglen on worm. On Thursday, John O’Donnell recorded another grilse of 4lb caught on the spinner and Patsy McHugh accounted for a 4lb grilse caught on the fly. There were a number of fish recorded on Friday. Eunan O’Connor recorded a 6lb grilse caught from Limm-na-Mhille on the fly. Gerry McCafferty accounted for a small grilse caught on the fly and Mick Doyle caught a 3½lb grilse from the Luggies. John O’Donnell accounted for a 7lb grilse caught on the fly. I caught and released a 6lb grilse on the fly in the Flag Pool losing hooking and losing another fish. Jed Cole recorded a 5lb grilse caught at Bonnyglen Falls on worm. On Saturday, Jed & Stephen Cole caught 3 grilse from Bonnyglen Fall’s weighing 7, 5 and 4lb on worm. On Sunday Stuart Henry caught a small grilse from below Ballymacahill Bridge and John O’Brian recorded a 4lb grilse caught from Bonnyglen on a spinner.
There is now a large number of salmon present in the fishery and the runs continue.
The Owenea Fishery had good water for the week with fair floods on Monday (0.31m), Tuesday (0.31m) and Friday (0.32m) and a good flood (0.48m) on Sunday. There was a good gauge average for the week reading 0.29 metres. The fishery was fairly busy with 73 visiting rods fishing spread throughout the week. There were good numbers of salmon caught as would be expected. Some of the catches are given here. The best angler for the week was probably visiting French angler, Denis Bonnet who recorded 6 grilse caught on the fly from beat 9. On Tuesday he caught a grilse of 2½lb, on Wednesday a grilse of 4lb and on Thursday, 4 grilse weighing 3½, 4, 4 and 5lb returning 2 of these. Mick McCole recorded a good grilse of 7½lb caught on the fly from the Priest’s Pool on beat 5 on Monday and accounted for another good grilse of 8lb caught from Finn’s Pool on beat 9 on Wednesday, also on the fly. John Northridge had a good days fishing on Sunday recording 3 grilse caught on the fly. Two were caught on beat 4 and weighed 5 & 6lb with the third weighing 3½lb caught from beat 5. He also missed another 7 fish!
0 August 2007
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