Two salmon were caught on the second day of the season on Lough Currane. The first was caught by Ken Towner from London of 10-1/2lb on the fly. On the same day, fellow Londoner Michael Clifford took a 9-3/4lb fish on the troll. Both salmon were tagged under the new regulation.
Local anglers were accredited with a further three fish from Lough Gill in Co Sligo. Two for Christy Gordon of 12lb and 7-3/4lb respectively, and one for Brian Conneely of 11lb. All three were taken on the troll. On the Garavogue river, Michael McLoughlin caught the first salmon of 10lb from just above the lodge.
And the Drowes continues to set the pace with over 20 fish to date. This week George Matier took a nice salmon of 9lb at the Blackwater Pool on a Flying C while Joe Flynn from Chicago landed an 11-pounder on a worm in Bryonies Pool. Another visitor, Bob Charm, took a 12lb fish spinning a yellow belly Devon Minnow from the Mill Pool.
Fishery manager Shane Gallagher says some good fishing is forecast as the river has risen in recent days due to heavy rain.
In relation to the formation of a small syndicate downstream of Rossnaree on the Boyne, as mentioned recently in "Angling Notes", I have, as promised, passed on all e-mails received to date to the forwarding address. As the proprietor intends to let these home waters for the coming season, I feel sure further details by way of e-mail will be prompt.
Meanwhile, Dr Ian Moore replies to reference regarding fishing on the river to say he never took the upper fishing in the 1960s and wonders if the reader could be thinking of Dr J.N.P. Moore, who was medical director of St Patrick's Hospital at that time.
Further, the reader must have identified his father, who died in 1947, from the photograph because he (Dr Moore) was only five years old at the time. And the reference to free fishing in the 1920s specifically referred to the Liffey and not the Boyne, he says.
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