Lough Currane

Anyway, had a great week on Currane. High quality brownies as well as the two controversial sea trout. Four or five days of a westerly helped and had me fishing marks I haven't been near in a few years. Got the good ones right on top of rocks which was odd given the low lake.
There's been a pulse of the 3 and 1/2 to 5 and 1/2 fish and I reckon they've been out and back between 3 and five times. I got a couple of juniors over a pound and I heard of a few more too. Nothing spectacular in terms of numbers but I got the good fish on two different sides of the lake so there may be more than than you'd think. Still nowhere near enough juniors. The next flood will be important for that.
From the point of view of brown trout fishing, the fish have definitely got much bigger in the last few years. On the night I was leaving, there was a cloud of small black sedge around the boats and if you look at the farms on the North side of the lake, the top of the hills have been reclaimed for grass growing, all in recent years. Whatever they're using to grow grass in marginal upland must be finding its way into the lake. Maybe that's a bigger threat to the sea trout in the long run than the sea lice. Either way, it's a much better brown trout lake than it used to be.