Lough Currane

SeaFields · 13-01-2020 5:03pm

Anyone have any recommendations for early season wet fly patterns? I'm thinking slow and deep fished patterns once the season opens for brownies this time next month. (Even if I catch nothing I just want to be out!)

Zzippy · 13-01-2020 10:52pm

SeaFields wrote: »

Anyone have any recommendations for early season wet fly patterns? I'm thinking slow and deep fished patterns once the season opens for brownies this time next month. (Even if I catch nothing I just want to be out!)

It's been a very mild winter so you might be surprised how shallow fish could be feeding early season. Worth trying shrimp patterns in close to rocks and shorelines. If going deep and slow patterns like minkies work well on Corrib

Slasher · 17-01-2020 1:44pm

Anyone going out on Lough Currane today?

Let us know how you get on, please. You might even get the first salmon of the season!

SeaFields · 20-01-2020 8:27am

Slasher wrote: »

Anyone going out on Lough Currane today?

Let us know how you get on, please. You might even get the first salmon of the season!

Nothing caught as of yet according to the Facebook page.

SeaFields · 25-01-2020 11:42pm

First salmon taken today. On the fly on the butler's pool.

popsy09 · 27-01-2020 12:34am

I was waiting for the catch and release brigade to be moaning on Facebook but maybe because it was caught on the fly it's ok that he killed him 😂

Great looking fish a proper Springer but it wasn't the first there was fish taken from the flesk earlier in the week but them Kerry boys don't like reporting catches ,hard to blame em I suppose

SeaFields · 09-02-2020 2:44pm

Lads has anyone a link to a map of Currane giving all the bays, etc for fishing. I remember seeing one years ago but can't remember where. Peter O Reillys book doesn't have it.

Rows Grower · 09-02-2020 3:00pm

SeaFields wrote: »

Lads has anyone a link to a map of Currane giving all the bays, etc for fishing. I remember seeing one years ago but can't remember where. Peter O Reillys book doesn't have it.

Ordinance survey map no.83 will cover it.

SeaFields · 09-02-2020 3:31pm

Cheers Rows. Will have a look

SeaFields · 17-03-2020 12:39am

Had a beautiful pound and a half brownie from the shore yesterday (released)... Water was like ice ice though. At least it felt that way after wading for an hour.

Zzippy · 18-03-2020 3:20pm

SeaFields wrote: »

Had a beautiful pound and a half brownie from the shore yesterday (released)... Water was like ice ice though. At least it felt that way after wading for an hour.

Fly or lure?

SeaFields · 18-03-2020 6:42pm

Zzippy wrote: »

Fly or lure?

On the fly. Size 14 green Peter. floating line too.

SeaFields · 22-12-2020 11:05am

Currane is brown tags at the start of 2021. Good news. I used always find it horrendous to see springers knocked on the head. I see no sport in trolling around the lake by visiting anglers and, it has to be said some local anglers, early in the season and knocking on the head whatever they hook.

Slasher · 18-01-2021 11:45am

Does anyone know if there were any salmon caught yesterday?

Flat calm for most of the day, i think.

wonga77 · 25-01-2021 3:09pm

Don't think there's been anything caught yet. The brown tag system is a bit of a mess so far I think. If you use up your brown tag this early then you have to fish single barbless hooks thereafter.
As far as I can make out there's only been 2 or 3 boats out fishing most days, some of the more regular locals that would be out most days didn't get any brown tag so enthusiasm appears to be low this year

downwiththatsor · 24-03-2021 10:35am

This thread is very quiet which seems ominous for the spring salmon in Lough Currane.
A local seafood shop chain is advertising their "Wild Irish Sea Trout" on Radio Kerry. Little do the public know that these are the lice infested caged variety that are doing so much damage to the wild stocks.:(

wonga77 · 24-03-2021 11:10am

Very few boats out there. None of the regulars from Cork etc have been down. Id say there are no more than 2 or 3 boats out during the day (at a push)and plenty of days that there are zero boats out.

Manuel · 06-07-2021 5:30pm

What's it like these days?

Spending a week in Waterville this month and am hoping to get out on the lake for a day, try and catch a white trout, as we used to call them where I grew up ...

Thanks.

Slasher · 19-07-2021 8:47am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117606157#Comment_117606157

I was in Waterville the last week in June. Fished two days on Lough Currane. Trolled mostly. Got a grilse, about 6 lbs on the first day. Nothing on the second day. On one of the days that i did not fish, about seven or eight boats were out, and they got four salmon between them.

Very quiet - on one of the days there were only two other boats out, they left early, and, as far as we could see, we were the only boat on the lake for the rest of the day. I have never seen it so quiet.

Rows Grower · 25-07-2021 9:05pm

Unreal quiet today as well, saw more helicopters than boats. Got a few brown trout with the double worm on 4lb line from the shore.

wonga77 · 28-07-2021 8:36pm

Very little happening, the water levels are extremely low. Needs a seriously heavy rainfall to get things moving again though you wouldn't say that too loudly.

The upper lakes must also be very low, they need to fill first before getting a decent run in the rivers

tasmac · 25-05-2022 7:05am

I'll be home from overseas end of June. Lough Currane sea trout has always been on my bucket list. Im planning on getting a ghillie with my partner. just before booking I have just seen that the lough that I've been dreaming about all these years is in a bad way!

Is there any point in booking a ghillie and having a chance of a fish or is it as bad as it seems?

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