Laksefiskeri - Irland

Blackwater Lodge & Salmon Fishery Newsletter - February 19, 2012

We now have five springers caught so far. 

The fifth fish caught was an 8 pounder which was released on February 14th.
This already makes this February the (joint) best since 2004 & the second best since 1994. 

This is a remarkable achievement for only 49 rod days so far for the total month,
and only 30 rod days for the 11 days when the fish were caught (Feb. 3 to 14).



We woke this morning to only the third frosty morning this winter. This is quite 
remarkable when we look back to the extremely cold conditions we had last year.


The river was coming into cracking fly order last Friday with the gauge down to 0.56m.
Unfortunately, there was some heavy rain in the upper catchment (not down here)
& the river rose a little yesterday, but a good bit more by this morning (Sunday 19th.).
The upper river was very coloured early this morning & this got to the lower river
by mid-morning. It peaked at 0.88m early this morning but had dropped to 0.70m by evening.
The forecast is mainly dry for the coming week with some rain on Wednesday.

There are good numbers of fish being seen especially up to the 17th., but catches have fallen somewhat.
Spring fish go off the take very quickly, & I think that a lot of the fish that are being seen
have been in the river since the start of the season.
Hopefully the river  will continue to drop back quickly to fly order once again.