Glenda Powell reports from the Blackwater Salmon Fishery where celebrity angler Keith Barry had one lovely salmon on Monday 27 March and reported two other anglers losing a fish each. There was another salmon caught on of of the fishery’s lower beats on Sunday morning. On Saturday Glenda hosted a number of beginner spey […]
Jason Corcoran struck silver earlier in the week at the Ballyduff Bridge Fishery on the Munster Blackwater… On Tuesday (21 Feb) Jason caught and released a lovely fish of around 8lbs on a Clydecade (or some would say a BananaCascade) on our the fishery’s new beat Ballygarrett. Connie apologised for the quality of pictures […]
Well done to Noel Fitzmaurice who has landed the first spring fish of the year on Glenda Powell’s Blackwater Salmon Fishery beats on Monday, February 12th. Noel’s salmon was a beautiful silver fish, fresh from the sea with long tailed sea lice. This fish was caught on a Gold Bodied Willie Gunn Franc […]
Early last week all looked in order for a good opening day on the Munster Blackwater. Unfortunately the rains that fell over the weekend were heavier and more sustained than expected and the River was high and brown in the end. Some fisheries advised clients not to bother but other hardier souls with a strong […]
Reports in from the various fisheries on the Munster Blackwater are that water levels are currently good. Heavy rain forecast for Kerry may bring the river up but the levels will will have plenty of times to sort themselves out for salmon angling on February 1st. Some fresh fish have been seen lying in the river. […]
New 2017 Salmon Rod Licences now available. Here is a link to the price list on our website for fishing and tuition for 2017: http://www.blackwatersalmonfishery.com/price-list/ Courses in the first part of 2017 are as follows; February 1st is Opening Day and we would like to welcome you to the start of the new season […]
Paul Whelan from Fort William reports yet another fine salmon. Last week we had Tim Keane from Dublin breaking the record for the fishery by catching and releasing a 23lb fish. This week it is the turn of John Brock from the U.K. He landed a beautiful cock fish of 40inch which he estimates to […]
Paul Whelan of Fort William Estate is delighted to report that a record was been broken on Friday 16th September on the fishery with the heaviest fish ever caught on fly. Tim Keane from Dublin guided by Fort William’s own Chris Coady landed and released safely this beautiful fish on fly. After a good battle […]
Latest news from Glenda Powell Guiding & Blackwater Salmon Fishery. After a fantastic start to the fishing season, with great runs of fish coming through the beats, the low water of recent weeks has slowed catches up a little. We were still managing to catch a couple of fish most days but we were struggling […]
Glenda Powell from the Blackwater Salmon Fishery has arrived back from fishing at Halkadalsa Iceland. No sooner back than she reports a first Atlantic salmon caught on the Calvin Shrimp fly for Trond Johnsen on Saturday. Unfortunately on Sunday Trond played and lost one, but Yzabel Derbré caught a very unusual large 4lb sea-trout […]
