22/8/2025

 August 22, 2025: No catch and release of Salmon or Seatrout was reported by Currane anglers. The weather for Currane anglers included a light to gentle variable wind from SSE veering to S, SSW, and SW. There was no rainfall recorded yesterday, with a maximum air temperature of 18.6°C and 0.2 minutes of sunshine. Next, we proceed to meet the Happiest Man in the world, also known as The Mad Fisherman.

21/8/2025

 August 21, 2025: Currane anglers reported no significant activity in either the catch-and-release salmon or sea trout categories, with conditions remaining consistent with those observed on the previous day. Meteorological observations indicated light to gentle Northeast winds shifting through Northwest, West, West-Southwest, West, and West-Northwest directions, accompanied by moderate cloud cover. The preceding day's weather featured no recorded rainfall, an air temperature high of 19.0°C, and a total sunshine duration of 2 hours and 4 minutes.

20/8/2025

Ballinskelligs Bay

August 20, 2025: Currane anglers reported no activity in the catch and release of Salmon and Seatrout across all sectors today. This lack of engagement is attributable to unfavourable weather conditions, which likely resulted in no boats being deployed on Currane. Photographic evidence suggests limited prospects for successful angling. Regarding today's weather, there was a light variable wind shifting from ESE to SE, SSW, SW, WSW, W, and WNW. Yesterday's recorded rainfall was zero, with a maximum air temperature of 21.2°C and a total of 2 hours and 2 minutes of sunshine.

Digle Bay tonight

 

 

19/89/2025

 August 19, 2025: There were no reports from the  C&R Salmon and Seatrout anglers today. The focus moved downstream into the Atlantic and Ballinskelligs Bay, where one bass angler reported catching 30 bass, with the largest weighing approximately 5 lbs. The weather for bass anglers included variable winds ranging from light air to light ENE, veering E, ESE, S, SW, W, WSW, and SW, along with good cloud cover. Yesterday's weather recorded a trace amount of rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 19.8°C, and no sunshine.       

18/8/2025

August 18, 2025: There was no reported activity among Currane anglers regarding catch-and-release salmon or sea trout. In light of this, attention turns to the local weather conditions. The area experienced variable, light to gentle east-southeast winds accompanied by consistent cloud cover. Meteorological data for the previous day indicated no recorded rainfall, a maximum air temperature of 18.0°C, and an absence of sunshine.  

17/8/2025

 August 17, 2025: No reports were received regarding Catch and Release Salmon or Sea Trout; for the record, there were four Currane boats on the water. Regarding today's weather conditions for Currane anglers, winds were variable, ranging from light to moderate ESE and then veering SE, SSE, and SE, accompanied by substantial cloud cover. Yesterday's meteorological data includes rainfall of 1.8 mm, a maximum air temperature of 24.81°C, and 4 hours and 5 minutes of sunshine.    

16/8/2025

 

August 16: 2025. Waterville boats of watervilleboats@gmail.com reported that the Killarney fly anglers were out trout fishing and caught 20 Brown on the drift then hell broke lose and had to head back in Waterville boats harbour because of thunder and lightning and no the flie. Just for the record there were boats out and there were no reports of any C&R Salmon or Seatrout. Now were head for the Currane wind chart of the day, wind moderate to fresh ESE veered SE and very humid and cloudy. Yesterday’s weather amount of rainfall none, maximum air temperature 25.1°C, amount of sunshine 10 hours and 10 minutes. Nowe head for the Salmon Tragedy In Co Cork I was aked to put it up Thanks for updating the press release so promptly this morning. Since then I have discussed the situation a number of times today with our chairman. We have come up with an estimation as to how many are dead or in the process of dying. See below.  THE ESTIMATION IS 46,000. This is the headline figure we have discussed with RTE (Eileen Heron Country Wide RTE Radio 1)today in advance of further interviews tomorrow with Conor and a Biological expert, Dr Ken Whelan and the figure I intend to use when contacting National, International and local media. Helen had no idea before our conversations of the scale of this. I believe that the media last Monday / Tuesday have either been misinformed or misled and that they should be made aware of the full scale of this unmitigated tragedy. I will leave it up to you as to whether you want to include in your press release even with some caveats but it would be really helpful if you could as I believe a headline figure of 46,000 dead fish from a source that neither the IFI or EPA have failed to disclose some 4 days o So the story so far in figures. Thursday evening Lombardstown,  Mallow and killavullen clubs recovered approx 3500 fish from the river blackwater. There was the same volume in the river that were in water too deep to recover. That's approx 7000 fish.There was also the same amount observed still swimming but obviously affected...That'  s 10,500 fish. Allow perhaps 10% for predation from birds etc and it totals over 11,500 fish. This was only covering approx one quarter of the affected stretch which spans some 30km.So, 11,500 x 4 which totals approx 46,000 is the actual number of what has been affected so far....and it is still ongoing.