The occasion will be marked with the planting of ‘’Symbols of Life’’ – a tree and potatoes.

Now as we welcome guests from all over the world and are privileged to extend a genuine Irish hospitality to so many. Now is the time to finally and symbolically open our gates to the names of those who perished in those terrible times. Lorna Siggins covers all in her recent article in the Irish Times.

Michael Wade
General Manager

Water conditions were excellent with the river running at 75, so fish had no problem running.

First off the mark on Sunday was Leigh Hookes, (one of John Tappin’s party). Leigh had a sea liced fish of  7lbs11ozs off the Waterfall pool on a Monkey Dog. He also landed two other off Finlough in the afternoon of 6lbs15ozs and 7lbs2ozs on an Executioner and a Green Peter muddler. Ronan Murphy had two off Doolough, one of 8lbs12.5ozs and and one of approx.13lbs. Paul Shalvey also had two, including a cracking fish of 11lbs5.5ozs off Finlough and the second of 6lbs off Doolough. Finally but by no means least Peter Milne had a fish of 9lbs7ozs on a Clartet shrimp, off Finlough.

Ciaran Boland was first on the score sheet yesterday with three landed, one off the Waterfall of approx. 8.5lbs and the second of 6lbs7ozs off the Meadow. Both fish took a Willie Gunn tube. His third fish was off Finlough on a Delphi Collie and weighed in at 7lbs2ozs. Chris Jarman then had his second fish of the week off Doolough of 8lbs11ozs. Finally Chris Wathen had a magnificent fish of approx. 13.5lbs off Finlough on a Cascade.

This morning we have 3 off the river and 1 off Doolough. Chris Jarman had two off the river, one from the Waterfall of 6lbs11.5ozs on a Collie Dog and one off the Rock pool of 10lbs2ozs on a Delphi Collie. Ronan Murphy also had a fish from the Rock pool of 9lbs7ozs on a Sunrae Shadow. Finally Paul Shalvey had another fish off Doolough of approx. 8.5lbs.

I’m sure I will have more to report on about the afternoon session later in the week. D.McEvoy

However since my last update Brian McHenry was actually the first on the score sheet, with a sea liced fish of 8lbs7ozs from the Whin pool on a Willie Gunn.

The next 10 fish were all taken by the aforementioned Sutherland party, 6 from the river and 4 from Fin. They were taken on Delphi Collie’s, Cascade’s and Red Shrimp’s. They weighed in at 8lbs14ozs, 8lbs1oz, 8lbs10ozs, 7lbs4.5ozs, 9lbs12ozs and approx. 7.5, 5, 7.5, 9.5 and 9.5lbs. Needless to say they were all happy campers.

On Saturday we landed 4 fish. Chris Jarman got off to a flying start with a fish of 6lbs12.5ozs from the Rock pool on a conehead Willie Gunn.

Veronique Guiraud from France then had her first ever salmon, a fish of 7lbs14ozs off Finlough on a Temple Dog.

Finally Paul Wymes was back in business with two fish off Finlough, one of 5lbs10.5ozs and the other of 7lbs approx, both taken on a Parke shrimp.

Keep tuned to this page as I should have another update tomorrow on the last two days.

D.McEvoy

The month started as March had finished with extremely hard, dry and cold weather. There was beautiful sunshine during the day and then bitterly cold at night with grass minimums as low as -7.9 degrees C.

We did have a few anglers who kept plugging away in week 14 and were duly rewarded for their efforts. Peter Morrison managed to take a fish of 8lbs3ozs from the Holly pool with the water level at 5. Joe Burke and Doug Keating both managed fish off Finlough in difficult conditions.

Credit has to be given to all anglers in week 15 who tried hard, despite the river being below 0 and temperatures still bitterly cold. We failed to land any fish for the week but it wasn’t  for the want of trying. Towards the end of the week the weather finally broke and we ended up having plenty of water for the rest of the month.

The water made all the difference as fish started to run and we landed 14 for week 16. With the increase in temperatures Finlough proved successful with 8 landed, 4 from the river and 2 from Doolough. Successful anglers were Rob Fanshawe, Guy Hollis, David Dunne, Bob Hadden, David Parry, Michael Roden, Michael Wymes and Paul Wymes.

The good fishing continued into week 17 with 16 fish landed for the week. Again Finlough proved most successful with 11 landed, 4 off the river and 1 off Doolough. Successful anglers were Heribert who landed 5, including one of 14lbs5ozs, Heinz Hoefler, Heidi Hoefler, Bernd Bieber, Ken Williams (first ever), Jens Kober, Michael Pettigrew, Fredo Dietrich, Tim Chilcott (first ever) and Urs (who has become one of an elite group of anglers to follow a fish under the bridge at the bottom of the Meadow pool, and land it!!)

For the remaining few days in April we landed another 4 fish. As temperatures got colder again all 4 were taken off the river, with the lakes once again proving difficult.  Successful anglers were Urs, Geoff Lucas and Fredo Dietrich.

That brought total for the month to 37 which is one ahead of the 10 year average. Hopefully this trend will continue into the month of May.

If you want to check out some of the excellent salmon fishing experienced by our anglers in April view Delphi’s You Tube video “In Pursuit of Silver” on our website.
In Pursuit of Silver – Delphi Fishery – Established 1830 – YouTube Video

D.McEvoy

Since my last update we finished with 4 more last week, all taken by a couple of regular German anglers. The fish were taken from the Schoolhouse, Rock, Horseshoe and Rock on a Collie Dog, Cascade, Willie Gunn and Delphi Collie. The fish all sea liced weighed in at 9lbs3ozs, 7lbs12ozs, 6lbs14ozs and 5lbs12ozs respectively.

So far this week fishing has been difficult with water heights varying quite a lot and temperatures still low. I have seen fish in the river but they are proving challenging to catch.

Jimmy Keogh has however managed to land a fish of approx. 5.5lbs from Doolough on a Willie Gunn yesterday.

There will be plenty of water for fish to run as there is more rain forecast tonight, so I’d say tomorrow morning the heavy rods, lines and flies will be out.

I must also advise you bloggers to check out our new You tube video “In Pursuit of Silver” which can be seen on our website.
In Pursuit of Silver – Delphi Fishery – Established 1830 – YouTube Video

D.McEvoy

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Michael Wade

On Monday Geoff Lucas landed his first of the week from the Waterfall on a Delphi Collie. Again I’m afraid this was no monster coming in even smaller at just under 5lbs.

Gladly Fredo brought proceedings back to some form of normality when his wife Christine netted his second fish of the week, a sea liced fish of 8lbs8.5ozs from the Whin pool. The fish took a Collie Dog. It was Christine’s first time to net a salmon, so well done to her for doing so, successfully!

Water levels are still holding nicely at 30, so hopefully we will see some more fish in the next couple of days. D.McEvoy

However, since my last update we have landed 5, two on Friday, two Saturday and one by lunch today.

Heinz Hoefler was first off the mark on Friday with a beautiful sea liced fish from the Whin pool weighing in at 10lbs2ozs. The fish was taken on a Collie Dog. The second fish was taken by Urs Leibundgut who having arrived a few hours earlier managed to land a sea liced fish of 8lbs9.5ozs from the Meadow on a Willie Gunn.

Yesterday Fredo Dietrich (who hasn’t been here for 13 years) had the first, a fish of 7lbs1oz off Finlough on a Silver Ally shrimp.

Then Tim Chilcott had his first ever salmon, a sea liced fish of 8lbs9ozs from the Rock pool. The fish was taken on a Delphi Collie and I suspect there will be one great salmon party back in London in the next few weeks.

Finally this morning Yvonne had a sea liced fish from the Meadow pool of 6lbs13ozs on a Delphi Collie.

Despite being a bit cold water levels are perfect with the river running at 40, which if anything will go up as we are getting heavy showers at the moment.

Since Urs arrived, he also informed me that I had made a serious error in last year’s newsletter. I’m afraid I only credited him with a total Delphi catch of 376 when it should have been 380. For this error I apologise profusely!! So all he now needs is another 19 to hit the 400!!

McEvoy

Since my last update we have landed 5 salmon, all on Tuesday.

The dynamic husband and wife duo of Heinz and Heidi Hoefler had a magic morning on Finlough boating three fish. Heinz had two weighing in at 12lbs13ozs and approx.11lbs and Heidi had one weighing in at 9lbs11ozs. All fish were landed on a Frances.

In the afternoon Michael Pettigrew managed to claw back some degree of respectability when he landed a fish of 10lbs5ozs on a Stoats Tail from Finlough.

Heribert then landed his fourth fish of the week, off the Grilse pool on a Collie Dog and weighing in at approx 6.5lbs.

Since Tuesday the weather changed, it’s gotten cold again and the fish have turned off with none taken or touched since. However, it must be noted that good numbers of fish have been seen in the system, so hopefully we will see some fish landed in the next few days.

On the Champions League of Salmon fishing I must say well done to the Irish contingent of the Pettigrews’ and the Layden brothers who tried hard but were well beaten. Hey that’s fishing, you never know. I reckon the German team were just lucky!!! D.McEvoy

The fishing has continued to be excellent and we have landed 8 fish since my last update.

David Dunne had a fish on Saturday afternoon off Finlough of 6lbs3ozs on a Flame Thrower.

The remaining 7 fish have all been landed by a group of German anglers from Munich. 5 of these were landed yesterday, 4 of them off Fin weighing in at 7lbs10.5ozs taken by Heribert, 6lbs9ozs taken by Jens, 8lbs14.5ozs taken by Ken Williams, his first ever and then in the afternoon Bernd had one of 10lbs9ozs. All were taken on cone head Frances’s or Collie’s. One fish was also landed on Doolough of approx 11lbs again by Heribert.

There were 2 landed today, both from Finlough on Collie Dogs weighing in at approx. 7lbs and  a sea liced cracker of 14lbs5ozs taken by Heribert.

Fish are proving difficult to tempt in the river at the moment with most of the apparently running straight through, even though conditions are ideal with water running at 55 and dropping.

D.McEvoy