Salmon Fishing Ireland 2020.

              
Having been away from fishing for the last few months due to Covid 19, I was delighted to get a few hours salmon fishing on the Lee. Unfortunately the water conditions were challenging to say the least with low clear slow water and a lot of weed floating downstream clogging up the line and fly. Concentrating on the known salmon lies I kept casting in and around some of the large boulders and slowly retrieving line to give the fly some movement and hopefully excite a fish into a take. Grilse and fresh salmon like fast moving flies and sometimes will follow a fly halfway across the stream before taking it.Imparting some form of movement can trigger a fast reaction and I had a few pulls at the fly before eventually hooking up to a small grilse. The fish gave a great account of itself jumping and cartwheeling up and down the river before I finally beached it and held it for a few minutes to allow it to recover enough to return it back to the river. I was using a 10ft intermediate tip with a 6 ft tippet of 5kg flurocarbon attached to a size 15 allys shrimp fly. Unfortunately lately it has become hard to fish at the dam with large groups of people fishing there without permits. It's very annoying not being able to fish down the river with so many people there sitting on croys static fishing and not having paid to be there while others having permits can't get access to fish.