Superb fishing for the few rods out.....................

 
With the water very high it looked as if no-one would venture out on Friday.

Eventually Kieran Conlon went out for a half day at Ballyhooly - the only rod out on the fishery.

It turned out to be very well worthwhile.

He killed one fish of 6lb. on worms (below on net) & released a grilse on spinner & this 11 pounder on fly.

A remarkable result considering that the clarity of the water was at best between 1 - 1 1/2 feet.

Yesterday (Saturday) Tim Harty (left) & Steven Slattery also fished Ballyhooly.

They released two fish on spinner - this lovely 8 pounder for Tim & a 5 pounder for Steven.

Pat Quirke also had two sea-liced fish from Kents on the lower river on spinner.

He kept an 8.8lb. and released another fish of ~6lb.

 Ballyhooly is definitely the place to be at the moment. 

Today (Sunday) Chris Whelan (left) landed three - these two fish of 9.1 & 9.4lb & a grilse he released.

Larry Sheridan (right) fished with him & took this 7.4lb. They lost another three fish as well.

They saw a large number of fish running through the beat during the day.

Joe Lonergan caught a sea-liced 5 pounder at the Jole on Lower Kilmurry on the lower river to make it 5 for the day.

The upper & lower river were both dropping slowly overnight.

However some heavy rain later yesterday (especially in the upper catchment) brought the upper river up 27 cm this morning, peaking at lunchtime & now falling again slowly.

The clarity above wasn't great as the rising water was rather dirty.

The lower river was rising slowly & steadily through the day, but the clarity was good at 2 1/2 - 3 feet.





Prospects
As I write (23.00) there is another band of quite heavy rain coming into the upper catchment which will keep the river topped up.
With the high water & the superb run of fish coming in, prospects of sport in the coming weeks are brilliant!