Salmon Fishing Ireland 2018.

Here are some of the photo's that I promised of the rocks in beat1 and 2 and 3, judge for yourself to see if they will improve fishing.

                                          Beat 1 they are like small islands

                                          Beat 1

 These smaller flatter stones in the pictures below would have done the job perfectly and trust me the salmon would be happier with these rather than those tall boulders.

Salmon Season 2018 " End of Season ".

Well it has been a very strange year especially with the extreme hot weather conditions and very low water levels so much so that I didn't fish at all for salmon from May till the start of September. Unfortunately the salmon that I caught in September were very coloured and stale so again another year goes by without a late fresh salmon for the freezer to see me over the winter.There has been more work done on the ESB salmon fishery but to be honest it's just a joke, it's like some body just dumped a load of big rocks into every croy in hope that it will improve the fishing.

 The upper beat 1 had huge rocks put into it last year and that has proven to be useless and now they have carried that  through most of the other croy's and to be honest beat 4 didn't fish last year after the so called improvements and for the first time in 30 years I haven't caught a salmon on beat 4 or the start of beat 1 regardless of the hot weather because there was plenty of fishing done before it arrived. I fear that next year will be bad because the fishing effort will subside due to anglers having to deal will trying to fish in a minefield of big rocks especially when losing spinners and flies to those ridiculous boulders. I will put up some photo's of the croy's and rocks on the next installment just to show how bad the issue is.