River Moy
The Moy continued
to fish well this week with the arrival of fresh grilse adding to the
good stock of spring salmon already in the system. Despite the bright,
sunny conditions which prevailed for much of the week, a total of 172
salmon were reported bringing to season total, so far, to 1,130.
Salmon were reported from most fisheries throughout the river from the
Cathedral Beat, in Ballina, to the Ballintemple Fishery, just downstream
of Cloongullaun Bridge. The best fish of the week, weighing 16 lbs.,
was taken on prawn on Armstrong’s water.
On the Ridge
Pool, Klaus Friebertshauser, Germany, had a fine salmon of 11.35 lbs.,
on fly, while John Seery, Ballina, had two, at 3.77 lbs. and 3.84 lbs.,
on worm. On the Cathedral Beat, Joe Sammon, Co Cork, had a good fish
of 11.5 lbs. on fly. Up river, Martin King, N. Ireland, had a salmon
of 11.50 lbs., on prawn, while fishing the Foxford Salmon Anglers water
at Rinnanney. On Cloongee, Mark Sweeney, Co. Louth, had a fine
fish of 12.5 lbs. on worm and another, at 9 lbs., on a spinner.
The East Mayo Anglers fishery produced a total of 39 salmon for the
week. Roger Janneau, France, accounted for 5 for his 3 days on the fishery
with 3 taken on spinner and 2 on worm and the best weighing 8 lbs. Hughie
Gillespie had two on fly, one at 9 lbs. and one at 10 lbs, while Gunter
Profanter, Austria, also had a 9 lbs. salmon on fly.
Moy Estuary
The estuary
produced a reported catch of just 15 sea trout for the week with northerly
winds making fishing conditions difficult for much of the time and discouraging
anglers taking to the water.
Lough Conn
& Lough Cullin
The warm, sunny weather early
in the week, and northerly winds towards the weekend, resulted in reduced
angling activity on Conn and Cullin this week but those who did venture
out were rewarded with some good fishing. From Kelly Boat Hire, Cloghans,
Peter Roche had two trout for 2 lbs. for an evening and Ray Jones, Wales,
also had two trout for 2 lbs. which came to mayfly. From Pontoon Bridge
Hotel, John McKernan, Belfast, had two salmon, at 6 lbs. each, and one
a trout at 2lbs. all of which were taken on a dry Wulff pattern. Fishing
from Gortnorabbey, Fraicie White, Sligo, had thee trout on wet flies
while Ian Wyse, Crossmolina, had four all of which took Mayfly patterns.
At Murphy Boat Hire, Massbrook, Ecky Muller, Austria, had two trout
for 3 lbs. Meanwhile, Foxford Angling Club fished their annual Presidents
Cup competition on Sunday, 7 September with 25 anglers catching ten
trout, mostly to dry flies. The event was won by Gary Binley with two
trout at 5.86 lbs. (2.66kg) Stephen Browne was 2nd. with 3 trout weighing
4.76 lbs (2.16 kg) while John O’Connell was 3rd with three
trout at 3.43 lbs. (1.56 kg).
Carrowmore
Lake and Owenmore River
The bright,
sunny weather this week had a particularly negative effect on this shallow
lake and only one salmon, at 8 lbs., was reported. No fish
were reported from the river due to low water conditions.
Lough Beltra
& Newport River
No fish were
reported from this system this week.
Ballin Lough
Unsuitable
conditions also resulted in reduced activity on Ballin Lough this week.
However, the lake produced 38 rainbow trout of which 17 were returned
to the water. Six rods from Rosmuc Fishing Club caught 22 trout for
their day of which they returned 10 to the water. Best flies for the
week were Minkies and various Deer Hair patterns. For booking
and boat hire, contact Mrs. Gill at the lake (098-26128).
Ballisodare
River
The Ballisodare
Fishery continued to fish well this week with a total of 25 salmon reported
of which 14 were released. The catch of the week fell to Gerry
McHugh who banked a fine salmon of 14.5 lbs. which he caught on an Ally’s
Shrimp fly. John Walsh had a 10 lbs. salmon on worm and Trevor Goulding
had one of 8 lbs. Some grilse have also started to appear in Ballisodare
with a number of fish in the 4lbs. to 5lbs. bracket being caught this
week.
River Bonet
The Bonet provided
some lively fishing this week with two French visitors to Dromahair
who fished the Dromahair Cottages beat upstream of the town. Jean
Michael Zapata landed a 9 lbs. salmon on a Blue fox meps spinner and
Jean Marie Borreca landed an 8 lbs. fish which took a similar lure.
Lough Arrow
Fishing on
Lough Arrow quietened down this week as the main mayfly season tapered
off but some good catches were still recorded. John Hargadan had four
fine trout over a few days of which two weighed 2 lbs. each, one tipped
the scales at 3 lbs. 13 ozs. and his fourth weighed in at 4 lbs. 2 ozs.
Michael Gunning had two trout at 2 lbs. and 3.5 lbs. while Peter Dunne
had two at 2 lbs and 3.5 lbs. Ken Murray had three trout of which he
returned two and retained one at 2 lbs. Most of the trout were
caught on dry flies with Murroughs and Spent Gnat working well. It is
most encouraging to see Arrow producing such quality fish again after
a number of years of disappointing fishing. It is also good to see that
many anglers are assisting conservation of stocks on Arrow by releasing
some or all of their catch.
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