Man credits drift-net ban for huge salmon

A KILKENNY man has landed one of the largest salmon ever caught in Irish waters. Bill Canning, Barracore, Goresbridge, hauled in the 12.79kg (28lb 3oz) monster in the river Bandon in west Cork last Tuesday.

The catch has been confirmed by the Central Fisheries Board as the largest salmon caught on a rod and line in Ireland since 1991.

Mr Canning credits last year's legislation banning drift-net fishing for rejuvenating the salmon stocks in Irish rivers. "Ever since drift-net fishing was banned, we've heard rumours of huge salmon running the rivers around here," Mr Canning said.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 86212.html

agree wtih his drift net views..a small local river near me is so full of sea trout these days its like catching mackerel...the best fishing it has had in decades and salmon have been seen running the rapids aswel, and why? because the netters were banned along the shores of the shanon....

the local river had 1 of its best runs of summer salmon last yr. would supect it has to do with the ban.

Cracking Salmon.....

Looks like this year some rivers are starting to see decent runs of Grilse. (Summer Salmon). These Salmon typically only spend a year at sea before returning so it great to see that a year after the drift net ban, we are starting to see a improvement of fish numbers returning to spawn.

Just goes to show what you can achieve, of you are well organised and lobby correctly and hard.

Kev

the ban has been in place now for a year, and this year the runs of trout in lough foyle are unbeliveable, i have never seen it fish so good...

it just shows what can happen when there is a ban for a couple of years, think what it will be like in a few more years :D



oh, and dont show petekd this thread... i think he's still struggling to catch a salmon :twisted: :twisted:

it just shows what can happen when there is a ban for a couple of years, think what it will be like in a few more years :D



oh, and dont show petekd this thread... i think he's still struggling to catch a salmon :twisted: :twisted:

Ack......... I hate this. Most of the rivers up here have Conservation Orders slapped on them. Can look at shoals of Salmon swim past, not allowed to fish for them.

They took the Draft nets off my local river as well as banning Drift nets. Never seen so many Salmon in the river. And looking is all I can do........

The rivers down south were hit really bad with the drift nets as south bound salmon were caught all along the west and south west coast by the drift nets there, great to see that the nets off is making a difference and letting those big salmon get up the river again, the local rivers are really on the up in comparison to the state they were in a few years ago....all we have to do now is stop the poachers!! :roll: :evil:

I met a man from deepest mayo, we'll not mention the river but he's seen salmon spawning in a local redd (spellling?) in "fecking amazin numbers" ... and no niether of us had been drinking! Great to see the draft nets removed as well, now, are there any snap nets still in use?

FWIW

this might not be to popular but i think it might be time for a 2 year total cod ban it worked with the salmon maybe it would work with cod

Cod cant be caught in the Irish sea area commercially, ICES division 7a if you want to see the division google it... hopefully it may help in the future

The run in Galway this year has been absolutely brilliant - and I fully believe its down to the nets being gone.
BTW, if you think a 28lbs salmon is big, I just heard there was a salmon taken in a bag net in Norway recently that weighed 37 kilos!

oh, and dont show petekd this thread... i think he's still struggling to catch a salmon

Looks like it could be Galway next on the hitlist then so. Grew up on the banks of the Crana River in Donegal and spent half my life standing in the middle of it. Left Donegal 10 years ago and have had 2 salmon since, I cant actually remember when the last one was. One of the reasons I started dabbling in sea fishing was because of the massive decline in salmon fishing in the area. 2 trips to the Drowes this year, last one was last weekend, saw plenty of fish, turned 4 but no bloody hook ups though!! :evil:

oh, and dont show petekd this thread... i think he's still struggling to catch a salmon

Looks like it could be Galway next on the hitlist then so. Grew up on the banks of the Crana River in Donegal and spent half my life standing in the middle of it. Left Donegal 10 years ago and have had 2 salmon since, I cant actually remember when the last one was. One of the reasons I started dabbling in sea fishing was because of the massive decline in salmon fishing in the area. 2 trips to the Drowes this year, last one was last weekend, saw plenty of fish, turned 4 but no bloody hook ups though!! :evil:

Go to the moy in september you cant miss :? .....thats what wer doen :P

Did that 2 years ago, place was moving with fish alright, cant remember the name of the fishery, it was just outside Foxford. Lost one at the tail of a pool at the death on its first jump after freezing my goolies off all day. I must be one of very few people to catch 4 species in a day on the Moy and not have a salmon at that time of year...... Pike, Perch, Brownie and Sea Trout. Lovely spot though, Ill be back there again.

The run in Galway this year has been absolutely brilliant - and I fully believe its down to the nets being gone.
BTW, if you think a 28lbs salmon is big, I just heard there was a salmon taken in a bag net in Norway recently that weighed 37 kilos!

this is the link for that
http://www.fishandfly.com/articles/atla-salmon




also found this there too


http://www.fishandfly.com/articles/20080716

Mollie Fitzgerald with her magnificent 54lb Atlantic salmon
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On 28th June 2008, co-owner of Frontiers, aged 45, Mollie Fitzgerald landed a 54 lbs salmon on the Alta river, Norway. The fish took a well-known pattern, the Mikkeli Blue in a pool called Ovre Sierra. The fly was surprisingly small (1-1/2" length) considering the fact that the river was essentially in flood at over 6.5 ft on the gauge. There was only a small window on the inside corner of the pool where fish might lie and the big one was in the 5 star hotel! Mollie also caught fish of 35lbs and 24lbs that night. 113lbs of salmon!

As Mollie described to Fish&Fly, 'The fish took on the dangle, as they do in high water, and left the pool for Nedre (Lower) Sierra, a run of some hundreds of yards down some big rapids in high water. We were left paddling hard and starting the engine to keep up . there is no way the fish would have been landed without the skills of my boatmen Tronde and Frode Simensen . he fought it for 45 minutes . less than the pound a minute rule!'

Ovre or Upper Sierra was described by a famous Alta fisherman, Hamilton Dalrymple, in his diaries of the 1920.s as a great low water pool but then he notes in the margin 'we now know that it is a good high water pool also' - He too caught a 54lbs fish there.

Surely this must be the largest Atlantic salmon caught on fly in recent times by a lady rod?

The fish was released safely. Well done Mollie on this magnificent catch & release.

oh, and dont show petekd this thread... i think he's still struggling to catch a salmon

Looks like it could be Galway next on the hitlist then so. Grew up on the banks of the Crana River in Donegal and spent half my life standing in the middle of it. Left Donegal 10 years ago and have had 2 salmon since, I cant actually remember when the last one was. One of the reasons I started dabbling in sea fishing was because of the massive decline in salmon fishing in the area. 2 trips to the Drowes this year, last one was last weekend, saw plenty of fish, turned 4 but no bloody hook ups though!! :evil:

Looks like you'll have to organise another drinking, oops fishing weekend up here so! :wink: