Wednesday, 4 July 2012

River falling slowly & plenty of fish about.....

The river was out of order on Monday (2nd) & no rods fished.
Yesterday, it was still high & a wet day, but 3 of our local rods went to do some bank clearing at Ballyhooly (2 on strimmers & 1 with a rod alternating.) Apart from doing a great grass cutting job they managed to catch 3 fish on spinner. James Hill had these two of 3.7 & 5.7lb & Christopher Whelan released one about 5lb. The clarity of the water was only about 1 foot.
Today, Tim Harty & Steven Slattery from Co. Limerick fished Ballyhooly & caught 5 fish on spinner between the two of them for the day.
Steven released 3 fish of 12, 8 & 3lb & Tim killed a 9.5lb (bleeding) & released a 6lb.
The clarity of the water there at the end of the day was around 3 feet.

Surprisingly (considering the showers), both the upper & lower river are dropping slowly but steadily since yesterday & the water is fining off nicely.


By 19.00 this evening the gauge in Ballyduff was on 1.20m with clarity 1 1/2 - 2 feet.
There's a bit more rain for Friday night but then it looks to be drier through the weekend & into next week.

Prospects for sport are superb as soon as the river fines off a bit more.

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