Salmon and trout angling | Coarse angling
Monday 5th to Sunday 11th May 2008.
The weather was warm, sunny and dry and the Drowes ran at low levels for the week. This meant there were few rods fishing for the week with the exception of the guests booked into the Fishery Cottages. The weekend was very quiet with no rods fishing. Sunbathing and barbeques seemed to be more in order! There were 3 salmon recorded however over the first two days of the week. On Monday, Philopp Tra recorded a fine 13lb salmon caught from the Island Pool on an Ally’s Shrimp fly which he released. Urs Banninger accounted for a 10lb salmon caught on an Ally’s Shrimp fly which he released. On Tuesday, Derek McLaughlin recorded a 4lb grilse caught on shrimp.
At present the river is low reading 4 on the gauge and the weather is forecast to be dry and sunny into next weekend which should see the river continue to remain low. A little rain would be welcome to lift the river though we are all enjoying the heat.
The weather was warm and sunny all week with winds blowing mainly from an easterly direction. All this amounted to few anglers fishing. The trout fishing seemed very patchy and few anglers seemed to be targeting trout. There were a few salmon anglers out and a number of fish caught. On Monday, Darren Maguire accounted for a 9lb salmon and a lovely trout of 6lb caught trolling. On Monday, Tommy Duffy recorded a 12½lb salmon caught trolling from the Rossinver Fishery and Dennis Maguire accounted for an 8½lb salmon also caught trolling.
The weather is forecast to remain warm and sunny into next weekend with winds still from an easterly direction unfortunately.
The Erne Estuary remained quiet this week and the fish seemed hard to come by, probably due to the very bright conditions and easterly winds. I only heard of a couple of fish caught at the weekend.
The weather was warm and very sunny all week on the Owenea and there was no rainfall. This all meant that the river continued to fall away and is now running at very low summer levels (0.09 metres at the time of writing). The gauge average for the week read a low 0.13 metres! Only three visiting rods were fishing for the week on Monday and I have no recorded catch to date. The forecast is for more of the same with only the odd chance of a shower. A small flood would be desirable to take out the remaining kelts and encourage the smolts downstream!
15 May 2008
Four French anglers who have been coming to the Butlersbridge area for 22 years have recorded the best ever catches of Pike. Over a nine day period they bagged 600 Pike, the two biggest measuring in at 1.07m and 1.03m.
Peter Lynch and two others fished Annaghmakerrig on Sunday last and bagged 70 Pike. They moved to nearby Doohat Lake in the evening and bagged a further 52 Pike.
Some anglers who fished Bunerky last week report that they bagged 170lb mixed bag including Bream. Corduff Lake, Ballinamore produced 40lb mixed bags mainly Bream and Tench. The narrows at Killykeen produced mixed bags 35lb to 40lb of Roach and Hybrids
A three day festival took place on Garadice recently the winners are as follows: Day 1- 1st. Tony Lynch 4,520. Day 2- 1st. Simon Huthwaite 6,610. Day 3- 1st. Paul Lee 8,780. (All three days were won from D section on Church. Overall, 1st Paul Lee 14,960 2nd Richard Pratt 12,560 3rd David Burleigh 12,540.