Second best day of the season........

The daytime water temperature increased
from 10 to 16.5°C between the 20th. & 27th. May, but has now dropped back by a degree.

 The Ballyduff gauge is steady on 0.25m

More fish were being seen every day up to the 28th. , and they are taking more freely, but often short as a good number have been met & lost.















Benoit Perros (France) caught his Second Ever on the 23rd. with a 4.3 pounder on spinner on the lower river. His father André lost a fine double figure fish on fly which would have been his First Ever salmon too!
We then had a couple of very hot bright days  which made fishing difficult.
Then on the 26th., Kieran McClements (N. Ireland) caught his first ever - a sea-liced 4 pounder.

The 27th was the Second Best Day of the Season with 3 fish to 7.8lb caught - all on the lower river.
There was another from the lower river on the 28th., & one from the upper river on the 29th.

The total for the month now stands at 19 for 152 rod days & the season to date is 46 for 330 rod days.