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28/02/2012

Nearly, never

As at time of writing we are still fishless. We had more rain on Sunday night so the river was actually up again yesterday morning to 65. It did however drop during the day as a result of which conditions were improving.

This resulted in us getting closer to that elusive first as we had a fresh fish lost in Morrisons in the afternoon.
Conditions as we speak are excellent so hopefully someone will be lucky before tomorrow evening.

If we don’t manage to land a February fish it will be the first time since 1986 that we have blanked.
Hopefully we’ll start to get fish soon and we’ll normal service will be resumed.

D.McEvoy

26/02/2012

Rain, rain

The weather forecast last Sunday the 19th was for mixed weather for the week. I’m afraid the national forecast does not takeDelphi’s micro climate into account. We had 85.3mm or 3.36 inches of rain this week and as a result the river never fell below 60 until yesterday. In fact Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday it ranged from 100 to 80 so find that elusive fish was difficult.

John Brennan, Roger Kenny and Geoffrey Fitzjohn tried hard in the early days of the week to no avail. Later as it tapered off we had Gerry McGuinness, David Allcutt and the Brady party. I’m afraid they drew a blank also.

We have some serious German anglers this week. They have been out this morning with the river at 45 and as yet that first of the year still evades us.

If the forecast for this week is correct there should be excellent conditions, and with the quality of anglers we have I would be expecting the first.

D.McEvoy

19/02/2012

Still Waiting

Well we have given Paddy Heneghan a fitting send off for one of the great ghillies of our time. I did say a few words at the funeral so in due course I will write a piece on this site that is a fitting tribute to the great man.

So far this year he has not bestowed us with fish as so far it is slow to get going, despite reasonable to good conditions and some serious effort by the usual few early spring fishers.

Among these we had Angus Sutherland and his party of David Felton, Denis Daly and Tony O’Regan who fished extremely hard as usual but to no avail. While some members of this group took some time to get accustomed to bone fishing I could not accuse them of any such transgression regarding salmon fishing.

We also had two of theDelphigreats in Peter Joyce and Sheamus Heneghan but they also failed.

We had some good fishing pressure this weekend in the form of Tom Sterling, Roger Thompson, Niall Kelly, Bill Green and Mary Martha Waltz ably assisted by myself and Peter Joyce.

From my own viewpoint, conditions were excellent and one was expecting to see the draw on the line at any moment. Alas it didn’t happen yet but I would feel that any day now it will. That’s my honest opinion not bull—-.

So for all reading this there is still the opportunity to land the first Delphi salmon of 2012.

D.McEvoy.

08/02/2012

End of an Era…

It was with great sadness that we received word that at 6a.m. this morning Paddy Heneghan passed away in his sleep. Paddy was born on the 27th June 1922, so was a few months short of his 90th birthday. He was in hospital since before Christmas and even though the body had faded the mind was as sharp as ever.

Paddy was the ultimate Irish ghillie as many of his family had been before him. His boat handling abilities were supreme. He was born in the valley and lived here all his life. He would have ghillied from the 1930’s right through to 2010.

There was no doubt that in latter years Paddy had his favourites and his favourites had him, but if we’re still sitting in a boat in our 80’s we can have our favourites too. There is no doubt that he has landed more fish than any ghillie at present in Delphi.

Paddy is survived by his brother Micheal and his sister Nonie who lived with him at the family home at Doolough.

David McEvoy

07/02/2012

Fishing Again

It’s hard to believe that we are already 7 days into the new fishing season. Personally I love February fishing when only the brave of heart venture out, (that or either they are all totally mad).There is great anticipation whilst fishing because one is always waiting and hoping.

As of yet we have no fish caught so for all of you reading this there is still the chance of landing the first of the year.

Fishing pressure so far has been relatively light. We had nice water the first day with some very serious anglers in Peter Mantle, Mark Helmore, Ash Mathews and Fergus Granville for a couple of hours but they failed to stir anything. In fairness it was bitterly cold and water temp. was low.

The river then got quite low until Saturday when we had a fresh and two experienced anglers in Conor O’Leary and John Brennan but they failed to score.
Yesterday water was 30 and it was a beautiful day for fishing. Added to this local veteran Sheamus Heneghan fished most of the day to no avail. He did however manage to rise a fish that he reckoned was fresh in the Horseshoe on his Bedger tube.

Water is at 25 today so hopefully we will get some rain to freshen things up. Remember you won’t catch him reading this blog, so get fishing.

D.McEvoy

07/02/2012

And the season begins…

Here at Delphi we are all looking forward to welcoming our first guests of the season. We will be open for three nights from the 16th February and then open fully from the following Thursday, the 23rd February.
We very much hope to see many of our past guests and also welcome new guests to come and experience this very special and unique spot.
This year we are delighted to announce that we are adding to our activities and plan to offer clay pigeon shooting and bespoke day trips around the area. You can find further details on this within the website.