{"id":7055,"date":"2017-08-07T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2017-07-29T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:26:35","slug":"40-atlantic-salmon-landed-on-the-erriff-fishery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2017\/08\/07\/40-atlantic-salmon-landed-on-the-erriff-fishery\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Atlantic salmon landed on the Erriff Fishery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Osgur Grieve reports\u00a0from the Erriff Fishery\u00a0(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)\u00a0who caught a nice 4lbs wild grilse which he returned. Steve was using a collie dog variant in the middle garden pool.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visiting angler Eric Podgorski (from France) caught and released a\u00a0good 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\u00a06lbs and 4.5lbs from the falls using a badger and shrimp fly. On Thursday 20th July, Glen\u00a0Harmon released a\u00a0fresh wild grilse of\u00a06lbs from the falls pool\u00a0using a Cascade and a\u00a0fine 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 \u2013 John\u00a0released four grilse of 2.75lbs, 3.4lbs, 3lbs and 3lbs, all from the falls on a Munroe killer variant\u00a0while Billy\u00a0had a ranched grilse of 3.5lbs and\u00a0released a wild grilse of 5lbs, both on a Calvin shrimp.\u00a0Jim Delahunty was unlucky to have lost a good fish as well that evening.<\/p>\n

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Glen Harmon returning 6lbs wild grilse below the falls. #CPRsavesfish.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Jurgen Mantel fished\u00a0the morning of the 22nd July and\u00a0released a 4lbs wild fish from Nee\u2019s run on Beat 6 on an Ally\u2019s 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\u2019Neill\u00a0released 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.<\/p>\n

After the rain on Tuesday night, the river rose to 1.5 metres on Wednesday 26th July and fluctuated all day between 1.5 \u2013 1.6 metres\u00a0and remained relatively clear.\u00a0There was a total of 13 salmon landed for the day, some of these catches included\u00a0former fishery manager, Jim Stafford, who had a ranched grilse of 5.46lbs from the\u00a02nd square pool\u00a0and released a wild grilse of 4lbs from the middle garden on a Cascade.
\nConor O\u2019Leary and Jenny Kass had a great day with Conor\u00a0landing 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\u00a0through 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.<\/p>\n

Regular visitor Mark Helmore\u00a0released three wild\u00a0salmon for his\u00a0day a fine 7.5lbs salmon from yellow banks on Beat\u00a05, 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!<\/p>\n

#CPRsavesfish<\/p>\n

Source: www.fishinginireland.info\/news\/salmon-reports\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Osgur Grieve reports\u00a0from the Erriff Fishery\u00a0(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)\u00a0who caught a nice 4lbs wild grilse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[383,440,417,17],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catch-reports","tag-atlantic","tag-errif","tag-fishery","tag-salmon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t