40 Atlantic salmon landed on the Erriff Fishery

Osgur Grieve reports from the Erriff Fishery (19th to the 26th of July 2017): We have had a great week here on the Erriff in the second half of July, with 40 salmon landed and more hooked and lost. Some of these catches included visiting angler Steve Mann (from the UK) who caught a nice 4lbs wild grilse which he returned. Steve was using a collie dog variant in the middle garden pool.

Visiting angler Eric Podgorski (from France) caught and released a good wild grilse of 5.5lbs from the Coronation pool on Beat 8 using a small orange shrimp fly. That evening local man Peter Coyne released two wild grilse of 6lbs and 4.5lbs from the falls using a badger and shrimp fly. On Thursday 20th July, Glen Harmon released a fresh wild grilse of 6lbs from the falls pool using a Cascade and a fine sea-trout of 2lbs from the middle garden on a blue charm. That evening saw the return of John Phelan, Billy Moylan and Jim Delahunty – John released four grilse of 2.75lbs, 3.4lbs, 3lbs and 3lbs, all from the falls on a Munroe killer variant while Billy had a ranched grilse of 3.5lbs and released a wild grilse of 5lbs, both on a Calvin shrimp. Jim Delahunty was unlucky to have lost a good fish as well that evening.

Glen Harmon returning 6lbs wild grilse below the falls. #CPRsavesfish.
Glen Harmon returning 6lbs wild grilse below the falls. #CPRsavesfish.

 

Jurgen Mantel fished the morning of the 22nd July and released a 4lbs wild fish from Nee’s run on Beat 6 on an Ally’s shrimp. James Gillespie had two ranched grilse of 5.5lbs and 4.5lbs on a Cascade in the middle garden and Jamie Senior released a nice 4lbs grilse from the upper square pool also on a Cascade. On Sunday 23rd July, local club man James O’Neill released three wild grilse of 2lbs ,4lbs and 5lbs from the middle garden, gauge pool and falls pool using a foxford shrimp and sunray shadow. Regular visitors Albert Caffrey and Donal Chambers also fished that Sunday and released wild fish of 4lbs and 4.5lbs on a Bann special in the middle garden pool.

After the rain on Tuesday night, the river rose to 1.5 metres on Wednesday 26th July and fluctuated all day between 1.5 – 1.6 metres and remained relatively clear. There was a total of 13 salmon landed for the day, some of these catches included former fishery manager, Jim Stafford, who had a ranched grilse of 5.46lbs from the 2nd square pool and released a wild grilse of 4lbs from the middle garden on a Cascade.
Conor O’Leary and Jenny Kass had a great day with Conor landing four salmon of 4.93lbs, 4lbs, 3lbs, and 8lbs, three of which were wild and were released using a Cascade from the falls and 2nd square pool and Jenny persevered through the rain and caught her first ever salmon on the fly! It was a fine ranched grilse of 5.79lbs from the middle garden on a Cascade.

Regular visitor Mark Helmore released three wild salmon for his day a fine 7.5lbs salmon from yellow banks on Beat 5, a 2.5lbs grilse from the hill on Beat 5 and a 4.5lbs grilse from Poleen on Beat 4. All were caught on a Bann special. Well done to all our anglers and especially our first timers!

#CPRsavesfish

Source: www.fishinginireland.info/news/salmon-reports/.

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