Salmon and trout angling | Coarse angling
Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th June 2008.
With very little rainfall for the week, the Drowes remained at low levels with bright sunny conditions still prevalent. This meant very few rods were fishing save for those anglers already booked into the fishery cottages. One of these anglers, Urs Frei, recorded 2 grilse for the week however. The fish weighed 3 & 4lb and were caught on the fly and the worm. We hope for rain to raise levels on the Lough and River!
The Lough remains at low levels with little rainfall this week. There were no anglers fishing for salmon it seems and so little to report on this front. The trout fishing was very good however with good catches of fish, both sonaghan and gillaroo on wet flies and dry flies. Anglers reported catches of up to 8 good fish per angler. Around Bilberry Island and Kinlough Bay fished particularly well with fair hatches of mayfly in Kinlough Bay and good hatches of buzzers around Bilberry and over other areas of the lough. The Ireland, England, Scotland & Wales international competition takes place this coming week with practice days on Wednesday and Thursday and the competition on Friday. It will be interesting to see how the Lough fishes.
The Erne Estuary fished well once again this week. With the dry conditions, there is little water coming through the power stations and this always equates to better fishing. Also, there are now good numbers of ‘Sprit’ in the Estuary, There were good numbers of sea trout caught to 4lb plus on spinners, flies & sand eels.
The weather was dry and sunny except for a little rain on Wednesday evening. Consequently the Owenea ran at low summer levels again this week except for a small fresh on Thursday reading only 0.16 metres on the gauge. The gauge average for the week only read 0.10 metres. With the low conditions, only 3 visiting rods were fishing for the week and the only reports are of sun burn and no fish!
The Eany River ran at low levels for the greater part of the week except for a small flood of 0.60 metres on Wednesday. This was a very dirty flood however, since the river had ran at low levels for some 2 months! It did however encourage a number of salmon to ascend the fishery. The gauge average for the week read 0.22 metres. The river was however quiet this week with no visiting rods in attendance and we await news of the first salmon of the season.
11th June 2008
The Stenna Challenge Festival 2008 took place last week on five sections in the Gowna area. Leonards Farm, Leonards Deeps, Corfree, Kevins Shore and Tessie's Shore, all sections fishing well with excellent weights. Fifty five anglers took part over a five day period. The following is a list of the winners: 1st. Kevin Johnson 80.090kg 2nd. Paul Bennett 63.450kg 3rd. Francis McGolderick 62.400kg.
Some pleasure anglers fishing the Arva area report good catches of Bream, Tench, Skimmer Bream, Roach and Hybrids.
Anglers fishing the Killeshandra area report good mixed bags with Foxholes giving Bream up to 4lb. One angler bagged 70lb of fish at Foxholes on Sunday last. Sean Reilly's shore at the Derries average mixed bags 50/60lb. Eonish Shore, Lodge Section nice Bream 5/6lb while Sandy Point 50lb mixed bag. Killykeen is reported to be steady with some Bream. Town Lake Killeshandra is giving good mixed bags while Aghabawn is producing Roach and the occasional Bream.
Fishing on the Dromore River, Annalee River, Coravoo, Drumlona, Bairds Shore and Sillan is reported to be good with Tench up to 5½lb, big Bream, Roach and some Skimmer Bream.
The river at Belturbet is fishing really well at the moment with good bags of Roach being bagged.