16/5/21
Straight to the apologies department because I failed to report yesterday that Currane
Angler Mr. Roger Dickeli caught a fine 7 lbs. Salmon on the troll. Now to today’s
manipulations, there were a few boats out and there was one Salmon caught in
the 7 lbs class on the troll by an angler fishing on his own. Wind North Light and
just for the record it made a nice drop of rain last night but nothing big.
15/5/21 The Currane
Anglers were all quiet on all fronts this day after yesterday’s fine bit of
action, just for the record their were 5 boats out today, so on that note we
head for the archives, you may ask why? Well I have seen a lot of the past on
Facebook on Lough Currane on how good it was in the last twenty years, personally
I would rather be debating the present and the future, but today I will be a hypocrite
and reminisce on Lough Currane and its fishery of the past and in my opinion it
puts the last twenty years in its proper perspective, the year 1970, starting
on January 17th to March 9th there were 45 salmon caught,
the biggest was 18.5 lbs. plus Mike Moriarty RIP caught a 12 lbs. Salmon on Derriana
all caught in 52 days.
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Tam's Salmon
Wild Atlantic Way
13/5/21 The Battle is really on and it’s great to see a good few boats out, seven to be precise, with all their efforts just one Sea Trout caught. Wind NNW and variable and sunny all day.Eric Jouen
12/5/21 The
Battle of the real 2021 Salmon and Sea Trout Season got off to a cracking start
today with a cracker of 10 lbs. Salmon caught on the troll by Local Gillie Mr.
Eric Jouen and of watervilleboats@gmail.com
so congratulations to Eric for converting to the blue tags in style as well as
being a Brown Tag winner and converting his Brown tag into a Salmon. The rest
of the Currane Anglers had the blues but no conversions. Wind SSW and Veered NW
light to fresh with showers.
Now to the Comment department, Alan replies to last night’s notes, It’s all yours Alan.
Well very
sad to read your blog last night Vincent, what is going on with IFI, why are
they coming down on anglers so hard, we all know anglers are not the problem to
the salmon and sea trout decline in Currane, fish farming has destroyed that
wonderful fishery, drift netting at Dursley island, Ballinskelligs bay, dingle etc,
IFI should concentrate on these illegal activities and leave anglers alone, and
as far as fish farming what are salmon watch Ireland at, farms increasing in
size and our wonderful sea trout almost wiped out, and no opposition to fish
farming. Sad, Alan
Hand Me Down Salmon
11/5/21 Just 3 boats out and all the headlines go to one angry angler and when I say angry that’s an understatement and that’s after catching the last spring hand me down Brown tag Salmon of 2021. This is his say on the Lough Currane Brown Tag Season.
Used my hand my down brown tag today, Well today was the last day of the brown tags,
and 14 tags fished Currane, 25 tags never wet a line, and best of all some brown tag winners tried to
hand down their tags with 3 and 4 days left and locals begging for tags all
year, what an insult to the real fishermen on Currane , people in office really
making decisions like this should be ashamed of themselves and should look at
the bigger picture before introducing something as farcical as the brown tags
on Currane , today I ask IfI where are the other 25 tags and why didn’t they
make an effort to give tags to people that wanted to fish. And to the person
who came up with brown tags idea, how or what do you think of yourself and your
idea now, from a very very disappointed local angler.
Wind WSW
light and variable.
10/5/21 Just
3 boats out this day and nothing for their good efforts, on that note all I can
say is one more day to go and one more day of sorrow and then it is the end of
the Brown Tag Spring season and the 2021 Salmon and Sea Trout Season can get into
full swing on the 12th Wind WNW then veered WSW fresh with
reasonable cloud cover followed by the odd shower. Now we head for your point
of view Department and Currane fly Angler Mr. Bill Bullock makes his point,
It’s All yours Bill.
Yes Vincent,
of course you can. I do hope you're
well. If the fate of Lough Currane
saddens me, I can only imagine how you and all the other ghillies around the
lake must feel. It's an absolute
disgrace. In my lifetime and indeed not
that long ago, it was the finest seatrout fishery in the British Isles. The dogs in the street know what the problem is,
and the political prevarication is blindingly obvious. It's farcical to have anglers putting fish
back and running around with brown tags when the fish farms are murdering the
trout in the manner that they have been proven to do since the late
1980's. I hold John in high regard. He
tells the truth. If only the fishing
recovered, we'd be back in Waterville tomorrow.
With very best wishes – Bill.
2006 was the
first year I returned to Waterville after a long sabbatical. We were there at
the end of May and caught some lovely trout with Frank Donnelly. Then the sun
came out and spoiled it. However, we
were in no doubt about the quality of fish in the lake. On the day we arrived,
we saw a 6lb+ trout in the Lobster and the gannets were working the
estuary. We were privileged to be in
Waterville. It makes me sad to see today’s results. Brown tags and C&R will
not solve the problem. Get rid of the fish farms, otherwise we will never see
Currane restored to its former glory- Bill
