Today local anglers Darren Duffy and Jordan Ó Hara headed for Cable Island at the early hours of the morning. Upon arrival on the beat they noticed it was unsafe to wade across to the Island stream due to over night rain and with the river rising they moved downstream to the more settled stretches of the beat.

Shortly after starting Darren hooked a nice clean fish of approximately 6lb on landing of his catch, Jordan moved in front of Darren and hooked and landed a clean fish of around 3lb both fish were taken on a Green Butt Cascade and a CCK Partridge.

At this time of year on a rising river with a bit of colour, it is always good idea never to overlook the slower shallower running water as fish tend to slow down and concentrate in these areas and can prove very successful for a fly angler.

Our guest from Switzerland Alessandro who was fishing on our Blackstone beat hooked and landed a lovely clean fish of around 6lbs his second fish in as many days. There was also 3 more fish hooked and lost on our remaining beats.

Overnight we had some heavy rain in the upper catchment and the river is slowly rising and colouing up a bit. This is good news as it will keep the fish moving throughout the entire system and the coming days should provide more welcomed sport for our guests.

Jason