Kylemore Abbey Fishery.
June 2007.
Water conditions throughout the month were, with one exception, very low. The usual mutterings from the anglers of ‘’never seen the river as dry’’ could be heard for miles and as a consequence, angling effort at 5 rod days for the entire month reflected the situation accordingly.
However, one small spate did manage to grace us with its presence in the middle of the month and this yielded us one of the last fresh run springers of the year at 8 ˝ lb, the first fish out of the Rock Pool for 2009. Only two other 3lb Grilse were caught for the remainder of June, one to Jeremy Shannahan and one to David Christie.
The June run was visibly poor with less than forty Salmon seen to enter the system. In contrast, the numbers of Sea Trout running during the month were both in quality and quantity impressive and given that we will have two more months of a trout run we should be in for a bonanza year.
With only 2.5 inches of water running over the newly installed fish counter it has been heartening to see a few fresh grilse in the normal spotting pools and realize that they can in fact, enter the river during these periods of low water. Certainly prior to the installation of the counter and the subsequent removal of a shelf of rock under the estuary bridge, salmon would not have entered on these low water levels.
Contact Nigel Rush
00353 (0) 95 41178.
www.kylemoreabbeyfishery.net
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