Salmon and trout angling | Coarse angling
Monday 9th to Sunday 15th June 2008.
There’s no change this week. The sun still shines and the drought continues! The river ran at very low summer levels. No rods were fishing apart from visitors booked into the fishery cottages and most of these fished Lough Melvin for trout rather than the river for salmon. There is no reported catch of salmon to date.
Conditions on the Lough were variable over the week with some nice overcast days and decent breezes. We did not receive any rain however and the Lough remains at very low levels. There are some rocks showing that are never normally seen! Local anglers are navigating known areas slowly and caution is wise! Some rain would liven up the Lough. Nobody is out fishing for salmon at all. There were variable reports for the trout fishing with some anglers reporting good catches and others, very poor catches.
The Home International Trout Competition was held on Lough Melvin this week fishing out of Breffni Pier with Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales competing. Wednesday and Thursday were practice days with the actual competition taking place on Friday. The fishing was fairly good over the practice days with good numbers of trout caught. These were mainly sonaghan. However, the fishing was harder on Friday with the fish being less responsive and harder to come by. The competition was fairly close with the Welsh teaming winning with 20 fish. In second place was Ireland with more fish at 21 caught but weighing less than the Welsh catch. In third place was Scotland with 18 fish and bringing up the rear was England with 15 fish caught.
Also, the local competition for the O’Connor Cup was fished on Sunday. 17 boats fished out of Breffni Pier in the boat (2 man) competition. The fishing reflected Fridays result with fish somewhat hard to come by. The winners were Jacquie Mahon and Mark Deavin with 3 fish caught. In second place were the father and son team of Sean & Darren Maguire with 3 fish caught. Third place went to Bernie & Vincent Kilkenny with 2 fish caught.
We received some rain this week and the forecast is for some more rain but at the time of writing, this has not been sufficient to raise the Lough by any discernible amount.
The weather was sunny and there was little rainfall once again this week. The river ran at very low summer levels all week. The gauge average for the week read a very low 0.09 metres! There were no rods fishing and consequently no recorded catch.
The report for the Eany is much the same as the Owenea with no rainfall, sunny weather and very low water all week. The gauge average for the week read a very low 0.09 metres. There were no rods fishing and consequently, no catch to report!
19th June 2008
Anglers in the Killeshandra area report good catches of fish. One angler on Mary Kate’s shore on Glasshouse bagged a 10lb Bream. The Derries at Sean Reilly is giving good mixed bags up to 80lb with some Bream. Town Lake Killeshandra also giving good mixed bags with some Bream and Tench. Bream up to 7lb has been caught on Aghabawn. Sandy Point at Eonish has been producing plenty of Hybrids.
100lb of fish mostly Tench and Bream were bagged during one day’s fishing on Cullies Lake by an angler staying in the Carrigallen area.
All small lakes in the Arva/Gowna/Carrigallen/Killeshandra area have been giving good bags of Pike in recent weeks. Lisney Lake is producing plenty of nice Bream and Tench, also Tessie’s shore and Kevin’s shore on Lough Gowna have been producing good mixed bags of fish.
Bolganard, Corgar, Drunlonan and Corduff have all been giving good bags of Tench and some nice Bream. Some Bream have been caught on Lough Awaddy. St. John’s is giving plenty of small fish while Brackley has been consistently producing Bream and Roach. Pike fishing has been extremely good during the past few days in Templeport Lake.
Trinity and Foxholes has been fishing fairly good during the past week with good mixed bags of fish.