Salmon Fishing Reports & News

As water levels fell further during the week fish were reported off  4 of the lower beats with a number of lucky anglers meeting 2 or more fish on the day. Those beats reported fish on a number of days – a bit … Continued

The river was out of order for most of the weekend. In the earlier days of the week about 10 mostly fresh fish were  caught on the lower river with the majority running hard. Today Monday 28th, saw 5 fish landed … Continued

As the river level dropped very slowly through out the week the lower beats continued to pick up a few fish mostly still on fast sink tips and / or small brass tubes. I have only had reports from 3 … Continued

It would seem that most fish are still running through the lower beats with the great majority  caught there  very fresh and still carrying sea lice. There are few resident showing in the pools downstream of  Bunclody.  While good number fish have been … Continued

Before the rain came on Wednesday the fishing on the Slaney was starting to pick up in particular with fish being met upstream as shown by Kevin Keagan’s lovely 9 lber off the Tullow Club water (photo courtesy of Thomas … Continued

The river has stayed high all week. I know of only 4 or 5 fish landed and suspect  most new  arrivals headed hard upstream as fish were seen jumping the weirs. Of particular interest was Paul McQuins’ fish off the Kilbride beat on the 23rd … Continued

Fishing on the Slaney has been quite slow for the first week with only about 10 fish landed. The exception to this rule was rookie salmon angler Matthew Summerfield from the UK who, on his first days salmon fishing on Saturday,  … Continued

The Slaney got off to a slow start on the opening day today. At this stage I have only heard of 4 springers landed and about  6  lost or met. Top rod of the day was Eamonn Power with 2 fine springers. Not that many … Continued

The last few months of heavy rain combined with relatively mild conditions should have lead to a decent spread of fish through out the system for the opening on St Patricks day. The high, comparatively warm, water should have meant that there were no thermal or … Continued

The final 2013 redd count  has come in just on 2,000 redds which is the highest number in the past 17 years. The count has only exceed 1,500 in  2 other years (2001 and 2007),with an average (mean) over the period of … Continued