Fining and Fishing

After a wet week and our prayers being answered we finally got the rain we have been longing for. The river at Ballyduff peaked on Saturday at 1.46m a rise from 0.17 on the 08 August. The river came down fast and heavy giving the entire river a badly needed clean out and driving out fresh water well into the estuary calling our awaiting autum salmon to make the run up river.

As it fining down in the last few days fishing was restricted to heavy material. Spinning was the order of the day today and Connie and his guest Gavin Wishart headed for our upstream beat Ballincurrig after seeing a few fish breaking the surface they finally hooked and landed a lovely silver fish of around 7lbs at the pump house flat.

Jason was guiding our French guest Jean Pierre on Ballygarrett even tho not landing a fish they saw some lovely fish moving through the beat.

The coming week looks very promising with the river fining down and the forecast in our favour we are sure to see plenty of action.

Remember our price reduction for the month of August and September from €80 to €60 to avail of this please call Jason on 353(0)877205690 or email to jason@blackwatertroutandsalmon.ie

You get what you wish for.

Highest River Height at Ballyduff since mid-April !

I am known (or perhaps rather infamous) for a scientific approach to analysing data.
Sometimes it is well worth the effort in order to better understand what is happening on the river.

The graphs below show the height & flow (in cubic metres) of the river at Ballyduff for the last year to date.
Due to the scale of the graphs, today's event can just be seen on the far right of each graph.
Today the Ballyduff gauge reached a height of 1.46 metres which is a highly significant event this year.
This is the highest it has been in the four months since mid-April, & is much higher than it has been all summer so far.

One would expect that these low water flows over the most significant part of the season should explain the poor runs of fish to date.
If this is the case, then we should be able to expect goods runs of fish to come in, and good sport for the coming weeks.

From

Ian Powell

Don’t take it too serious.

Today we had anglers on most beats some of which where a lot more relaxed when it came to fishing. And low and behold the only one to get a fish to the net. The gentleman is question Billy Fegan, was guided by Connie at Beat 2 on Cable Island. Within an hour Billy hooked and landed a lovely fish estimated at 6lbs and safely returned to carry on its journey. The pressure was off and the remainder of the day was a very relaxed one. We had other guests out that hooked some nice grilse but couldn't hold onto them, being a very acrobatic fish grilse can prove difficult to land.

The coming days we have a lot of rain forecast between 25-50mm this will be very welcomed and fishing is certainly going to improve in the catchment.

Tight lines.

Jason

Don’t take it too serious.

Rise and Fall

After the recent rain fall, the river brought down a rise of nearly 12 inches and coloured up quite a bit. It cleared a lot over night and dropped to a very fishable height this morning. The upper beats today where not so lucky as it coloured up a lot again this morning, so this made fishing conditions difficult up river. On the lower beats today we had a few fish met but none of which stuck. The coming days should produce results as the water drops and clears up a bit. We have heard reports of fish running in the lower river below Ballyduff so we await their arrival up the system towards us.

Jason

The Future

Blackwater Trout & Salmon Fishery is the new brand name for Ballyduff Bridge Salmon Fishery. It has been changed to more accurately describe its position as the largest salmon fishery on the entire river rather than merely geographically centred around Ballyduff Bridge beat.

The Fishery is a family run business hosted by Jason Corcoran – son of Connie Corcoran (alias ”Riverman”) who is the most famous guide on the Blackwater. Connie started guiding back in 1961, and no other living person has his knowledge of the river. Jason started guiding under his tutelage at the age of thirteen, absorbing all his Dad's years of experience. Between them they have almost a century of experience guiding & instructing on the Cork Blackwater river.

The fishery currently comprises of 10 beats in total spread over approximately 60km of the river - offering fishing suitable for all river conditions.
There are six beats on the lower river starting just 7km above the tidal limit,
and a further four beats on the upper river between 45 & 55km upstream from Ballyduff.

We are also the only fishery on the Blackwater to have a fully equipped tackle shop situated at the fishery head office overlooking the river.

In celebration of launching our new business name and website, we have reduced our prices by 25% for August and September - check out our price list here.

We look forward to seeing you on the fishery with us, and we hope that we can assist you on landing a fish or two. Iascaireacht shona agus maireachtáil shláintiúil (Happy fishing and healthy living)

Jason