Despite very low water conditions and few rods out fishing, we have caught 58 fish in the last 2 weeks with just one blank day. On the 20th., the Best Fish of the Season was taken by Robert Savage from Kilkenny with a 14.6 pounder from Ballinaroone taken during the Ballyduff Salmon Festival charity fund-raising [...]

The Season so far Three springers were caught for February & six for March – including a new Best Fish caught by Pat O’Donovan from Castletownroche just above the Junction Pool with the Awbeg at Bridgetown Abbey beat 20 miles upstream of the Lodge. A superb fresh fish for so far upstream. April has kicked [...]

 Saturday turned out to be a very good day indeed with six springers met in the day – two landed and both released plus four lost. Not bad with only eight rods out! Michael Sheridan (Dungarvan) caught and released the Best Fish of the Season to date which was a 12¾ pounder on spinner on [...]

After a prolonged wet spell & very high water conditions, the river is now settling down and has been stable for the last day or so with excellent clarity. Perfect fly conditions. There is some rain forecast for the weekend, but it looks as if it will be mostly light, and much of it should [...]

There were only two rods out on the river on Saturday. Tony O’Keeffe from Mallow was fishing at Kilmurry with his father Dan. Tony caught this 6.6lb. fish on Flying C on the Island Stream on Lower Kilmurry. Sea-lice can be seen in the picture – two on the top of the tail and one [...]

The first four days of the season was the river in perfect condition – especially for the fly. The proof was in the first fish being caught on the 3rd. – one of the earliest on fly for many years. Since then we have had one flood after another, and the river hasn’t even come [...]

 Derek O’Keeffe, from Thomastown, Kilkenny came to the Lodge for a casting lesson with Glenda this afternoon. After the lesson, Glenda invited him to fish on for the rest of the afternoon on Upper Kilmurry. He hooked and landed a lovely fresh fish of about 8lb. on a fly he tied himself. The fish [...]

Since late October a lot of rain has fallen, and the river is considerably higher than it was for most of the season. Huge numbers of fish are now coming into the Blackwater. The fish counter at Clondulane weir reports 7,500 salmon running through in the 8 days from October 27th. The counter only counts [...]

The Heaviest Fish of the Season is caught on Fly on Sunday, July 25th Mossy McElligott (Tralee) caught the Best Fish of the Season with a 12.4lb on fly on Ballinaroone & his fishing partner Tim Quinlivan also had two on fly of 11.9 & 9.1lb. Tim’s largest was also the second heaviest weighed fish [...]