About 50 anglers fished the New Year’s Day salmon opener on the Drowes. As the week progressed conditions deteriorated with stormy weather and plenty of rain putting the river into flood by the weekend. Shane Gallagher reports… 01 January: At the end of the first day of the 2018 salmon fishing no fish have […]
Osgur Grieve reports on the fishing on the Erriff for the period august 6th – 12th. We have had another great week here on the Erriff with a total of 56 salmon recorded for the period. Some of the catches included Donal Chambers’s brace of salmon on Thursday 7th weighing 5lbs and 7lbs from Beat 6 […]
Water levels fell steadily on the Drowes until the 23rd when the river started to slowly rise again due to decent rainfall in the catchment. As February ended the river was in fine fettle reading just over 0.6 metres on the gauge at the Four Masters Bridge. Four salmon were caught over the fortnight with […]
Fishery manager Shane Gallagher reports from the Irish river Drowes as we start a new season: The first days of the 2017 salmon season have ended without any fish being reported. Over one hundred anglers wetted a line on the first day of the season in near perfect conditions but apart from reports of a […]
Lindsey Clarke reports from the River Drowes– Monday 21st February to Sunday 27th March 2016: Water levels were lovely over the week once again. On Monday the gauge read 0.52m and the river gently fell and the gauge on Friday read 0.49m. Rain over the Easter weekend however meant the river rose slightly again and […]