Salmon fishing reports

Salmon fishing reports

State-managed rivers in Donegal to close due to heatwave

Due to the continuing heatwave resulting in high water temperatures, the following IFI permitted rivers will close to all angling from Friday morning 17th July...
Ridge Pool at the Moy Fishery, Ballina

173 Salmon reported from the Moy last week

Michael Murphy has compiled the Moy Catchment Angling Report - Week ending 05-07-2026  Water levels at Ballylahan remained steady, with clear water across most of...

A few more salmon from Laune and lakes last week

Martin Ring in our Macroom office reports that there were 3 grilse of around 4 lbs each caught spinning on Beat 2 of of...
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Six salmon and a few sea trout from Currane last week

Tim Moore in Kerry reports  that there were 6 salmon caught on Currane last week and anglers also landed a couple sea trout. For more...
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Big grilse this year in Ballisodare

Gerry Merrick has been in touch with an update from Balisodare... The last two weeks at Ballisodare Fishery have been very successful, with grilse arriving...
Ridge Pool at the Moy Fishery, Ballina

Water Temperatures Alert – Cloongee, Erriff, Moy, Galway Fisheries Now Closed

UPDATE: 10/7/26 - The Galway Fishery is now closed due to elevated water temperatures. UPDATE: 10/7/26 - The Moy Fishery (including the New Beat) is...

Plenty of grilse in Galway but water temperature increasing again

The Galway Fishery reopened last week after a long closure due to high water temperatures. Water temps finally fell below 18C on Thursday, and...

Erriff River records its first salmon of the season

Fishing on the Erriff this season has been slow with conditions often poor for angling. There were only a handful of fish landed since...
Ridge Pool at the Moy Fishery, Ballina

139 salmon from the Moy catchment despite fishery closures due to warm temperatures

Michael Murphy has compiled the Moy Catchment Angling Report - Week ending 28-06-2026 Water levels at Ballylahan continued to drop steadily to 0.35m as the...
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Seven salmon and a few sea trout from Currane last week

Anglers on Lough Currane had better fishing last week, on the days when sun wasn't entirely dominating the conditions. There was the first grilse...