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Post by bwlodge on Feb 23, 2013 13:03:49 GMT
One Fish – Two Firsts!
The First Fish of the Season was caught on the Lodge beats yesterday.It was taken by Gary Byrne from Dungarvan on spinner, weighed 9.65lb & was sea-liced. It was his First Ever Salmon and his first visit to the Lodge. 
Like most special events at the Lodge, there’s a story……………………………………………. I had sentGary & his mate Mark to fish on Upper & Lower Kilmurry and they arrived there about 10.00am.For those of you that know the Lodge, Glenda was teaching at the Hut Pool on Upper Kilmurry (her Office!).
I called into see her, then left at 12.00 to head for Fermoy. As I was driving away, I glanced into the top field (“The Inches”) of Upper Kilmurry and saw Gary - rodbent – looking as if he was into a fish. I stopped, shouted to him to confirm& then parked & hastened down the field to him. He was on the high bankat the tail of the Inches with an obviously fresh springer played out. Unable totail it out, we nervously waited for Mark to appear having returned to the Hut Pool some 400 yards away to get the net. I landed the fish and the smile on his face really does say it all! The fish was tagged and entered into Gary’s logbook even although it wasn’t a kelt! If you don’t understand this ironic joke go and read all about the logging controversy on our Facebook pages!
 The river is now fining off nicely, and it is only now that we can really fish with confidence as there is already a good headspring fish through the system even to the upper river.
Theforecast is for continuing dry cool weather, so the river will be coming intoexcellent condition & the chances of catching a springer must be very good in the coming days.I just had a phone call from the river to tell me that there are good numbers of springers showing on Kilmurry. The first fish of the season off the river had been reported on Tuesday on Killavullen club waters 20 miles upstream. This is probably the first time in living memory that the first fish of the season has been recorded this far upstream. Obviously a consequence of the high water & mild temperatures we have had since the beginning of January. On Wednesday 20th., one of our rods lost a sea-liced fish of 8-10lb at the bank - he had forgotten his net! He also saw half a dozen fresh springers.
The same day there was also a report of a sea-liced fish caught on another private lower beat. |
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Post by bwlodge on Mar 5, 2013 15:58:51 GMT
 The river is in absolutely fantastic order. The gauge is on 0.49m this morning with clarity ~6 feet.
The water temperature is 7.6°C @ 10.00 today. Air: +7°C
It's in perfect order for the fly at the moment.
This kelt below was caught by 17 year old Dan Hawker on fly at the Lug Pool on Lower Kilmurry.
It was an absolutely superbly conditioned fish that was duly released (and logged of course!!!!!)
All the spent fish are very well mended & fight like hell.
So if you are fishing here, make sure you don't confuse them with a fresh one - it's easily done.
Prospects The weather looks as if it'll be broken in the run-up to next weekend but without appreciable amounts of rainfall.
This means we can probably expect conditions to remain quite stable through the week. The run of springers was good the week before last when our first two were hooked.Since then we are seeing occasional ones, but none have been hooked. |
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Post by bwlodge on Mar 27, 2013 17:42:01 GMT
 We are having a period of dry weather now which is due continue until well into next week. Following the big flood on the 22nd., the river is now fining off very well and will only improve further in the coming days. 
The Ballyduff gauge is on 0.70m at 5.00pm today. Beats on the upper river are now in fly order, and some of the lower beatsshould be fly-fishable by tomorrow & all of them should be in fly order by the weekend.Temperatures are cold with the air struggling to get to 5C during the day & is about 0 to +2C at night. The water on the lower river is just over 7C & on the upper river it is only about 4.5CWe have high (3.9m) tides for the next couple of days, so hopefully this - combined with the flood fining off
- will encourage more fish to move in.
Prospects are looking very good for the Easter weekend. |
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Post by bwlodge on Jul 31, 2013 12:07:03 GMT
 This was the radar rainfall picture at 05.15 this morning. I had 10mm rain on the Lodge gauge @ 08.20 this morning  This is the rainfall/river height for July at 08.30 today.  By 09.45 a second band of rain was crossing the catchment. By 12.15 another 7mm of rain has fallen. It looks as if we could be due a good flood on the river later today. |
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Post by bwlodge on Aug 11, 2013 10:33:45 GMT
Superb Salmon Fishing in the Last Week....................................  With the spell of dry weather, the river has fined off to summer level. The Ballyduff gauge is now on 0.26m this morning & the clarity is 4-5 feet. The forecast for the week is dry except for some light rain perhaps on Wednesday & Thursday.  We have had superb fishing in the last week. For the 7 days to Saturday 10th., we have taken 108 fish to 12lb. for just 87 rod days. The August total is 118 which is already the best for the month for the last 4 years - & this is only in the first 10 days! Fresh fish are continuing to run in good numbers. One angler who was fishing our top beat just below Mallow (28 miles/45km upriver) caught 4 sea-liced grilse in one hour in the late afternoon & lost 2 more. Prospects Excellent for the coming week. Very small flies are the most successful. There's no problem for availability for fishing & accommodation for most of August. |
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