Report for Salmon Angling on Carrowmore ending May 3rd 2022
Carrowmore Lake – First Fish Caught after Temperatures Rise
We are delighted to report that the first Salmon of the year was landed by a local lady angler Chloe McDonnell who was ghillied by her Dad Martin on March 25th on Friday. Well done to Chloe and we are delighted that she has shown the men up this year!
Another fish was landed on Saturday 26th March by angler Didier Letourme who landed a beautiful 9lb Springer – well done Didier.
The rising temperatures certainly helped get the fish moving and we are expecting more fish to be landed as more anglers venture out in the coming days on news of the first fish being landed…
Anyone wanting to fish the lake or river can contact Seamus on 0872460776
Carrowmore Lake – It’s time to start dusting off the rods and reels for 2022 Season
We are looking forward to welcoming you all to the lake and river this coming season. We expect the first Salmon will be caught any day now with a few anglers having ventured out despite the weather proving difficult.
Hopefully temperatures will start to pick up in the coming days but we are excited to start the 2022 season.
Anyone wanting to fish the lake or river can contact Seamus on 0872460776
Carrowmore Lake – Angling Update – To June 21st
Despite the relatively poor angling conditions – mostly because of wind the lake has seen good angling with numbers of Sea Trout entering the lake which have been caught on the fly up to and over 2lbs weight. Best fish caught recently on the lake was 13lb caught by Martin Ryan. Glen Woods also had a few fish. Other anglers that have done well are
B. Seymour
J. Burns
MI. Gallagher
D. Keogh,
J. Mcarthy
M. Reuland
Leo.
M. Corway
Eamon Giblin who wins the prize for possibly the smallest fish ever caught on the lake – well done Eamon your rubber medal is in the post.
Most of the fish caught were returned safely with a very high percentage of anglers this year releasing fish. Well done to all.
Prize for the smallest fish ever landed on the lake goes to Eamon.
Mervin Corway with a Carrowmore Bangor Erris Salmon
Mervin Corway with a Carrowmore Bangor Erris Flyfishing Caught Salmon – released
Martin Ryan with a Carrowmore Bangor Erris Flyfishing Caught fine 13lb Salmon.
Jamers Burns with a Carrowmore Bangor Erris Flyfishing Caught Salmon.
Glenn Woods with a Carrowmore Bangor Erris Flyfishing Caught Salmon – released
Anyone wanting to fish the lake or river can contact Seamus on 0872460776
Carrowmore Lake – Angling Update – To June 8th
There was little or no angling on Carrowmore lake for nearly two weeks due to weather conditions in late May. Fishing has improved for the past 10 days. The following anglers had fish:
J. Long
V Rigney
R. McDonnell
B. Seymour
B. Baines
B. Doocey
M. Corway
M. Kilen
M. Naughton
B. Moore
Most of the fish caught were returned safely. The first of the sea-trout have also arrived.
Carrowmore Lake_Bangor Erris_mayo_Ireland
Released fish – Photos courtesy of Mervin Corway
Anyone wanting to fish the lake or river can contact Seamus on 0872460776
Angling Update – To May 10th
Some fantastic fishing on the lake since the last update despite a few off days due to heavy winds.
Some of the lucky Anglers were Mervin Corway and Barry Doocey who both had a cracking evening last week with 4 fish to the boat all released safely.
Brian Hope, Toby Gibbons, kevin Beirne, Martin Reuland and Kevin McGrevy all had fish last.
Christen Brudenell is shown Below with a beautiful fish which was released – she has done amazingly well this year with some beautiful fish – all released so a great sports lady.
Other lucky anglers at the weekend were Seamus Gaughan and Jim Mills both local anglers – both of whom released their fish.
If anyone wants to fish the lake you can contact Seamus directly on 0872460776
Brian Hope with a Fine Carrowmore Lake Atlantic Salmon
Christen Brudenell_Atlantic Salmon_Carrowomore_Lake
Mervin Corway Atlantic Salmon Carrowmore
Barry Doocey _Atlantic Salmon being released
Angling Update – some extra pictures from recent Angling – Tuesday 27th April
Here are some updated and extra pictures from recent anglers on the lake.
Some absolutely cracking fish have been landed up to 13lbs (we are awaiting a photo of that one at the time of writing.
As this report is being typed the weather has changed considerably from yesterday and today is much breezier and cooler than recent days with some heavy showers and a north wind.
Some of the lucky or skilled anglers with fish shown below:
John Cosgrove
Christen Brudenell
Marcus Muller
Eamon Kennedy
Vincent Rigney
Barry Doocey
Also not shown Brendan Hamrock from Castlebar had a fish of 12lbs. There were a number of other fish caught and released by the above anglers and other anglers not shown here.
Prospects are good once the wind settles back down…
Barry Doocey_Atlantic Salmon
Eamon Kennedy_Atlantic Salmon
Marcus Muller_Atlantic Salmon
Vincent Rigney_Atlantic Salmon
Christen Brudenell_Atlantic Salmon
John Cosgrove_Atlantic Salmon
Great Fishing Despite Difficult Angling Conditions
Carrowmore Lake has continued to yield some great Spring Salmon on the Fly despite a lot of bright weather over the past week. There has been an average o7 boats out on the lake every day and generally each boat is landing at least two fish if not more. The Best of the fishing has generally been in the evenings because of very bright days with cloudless skies on some occasions.
There have been quite a few fish caught since the last update but here are some of the recent lucky anglers below with a higher percentage releasing fish rather than keeping them which is great to see.
Merv Corway has caught a few more fish with one up to 13lb – all released
John Cosgrove has had a few fish up to 9lbs at time of writing
Cristy Murphy and Ben Baines both had fish on their day on the lake recently.
Vincent Rigney Westport has had a few Springers also most of which have been released
Declan Foley had his first fish of the year which was also released.
Kevin Byrne Castlebar had 2 fish one released
Vincent McHugh had one fish
Barry Doocey had a fish
Rocky Moran Castlebar had a fish
At the time of writing on Monday 26th April the weather is still very bright but cloudier and cooler conditions are promised this week so angling is expected to remain consistent if not better.
John Cosgrove with a fine fresh Salmon
Mervin Corway
Mervin Released Salmon
Mervins boat partners
Declan Foley Kiltimagh with his first Salmon – released.
Barry Doocey with a fresh fish
Pair of Atlantic Salmon
Cristy Murphy and Ben Baines
Cristy Murphy and Ben Baines and John Cosgrove
Fishing up to Friday the 16th April
This week – despite the bright weather has seen some great angling on the lake.
Some of the lucky anglers were Vincent Rigney, Westport who sportingly released his fish.
Rocky Moran, Castlebar who caught two fish and released one. (Even though he wasn’t supposed to be fishing yesterday according to him)
Kevin Byrne, Castlebar who also caught two fish and released one. The fish he kept was a cracking 9lb fish which is shown below on the boat
Two anglers who were testing new rods broke their new rods in fish – we will withhold their names as the investigation unfolds 😉
Vincent McHugh who visited the lake for the first time – also pictured below holding his fish had a beautiful 10.5lb Salmon which he was thrilled with.
David Lennon also caught and released a fish. There were reports of plenty of fish being spotted.
The weather is promised cooler at the weekend but temperatures are set to rise again next week so we anticipate good angling in the coming days.
Also photographed below by Brian Hope is a salmon being played by Vincent Rigney (I understand) – Great photo Brian!
We are sad to have to report the first fish of 2021 was caught on Carrowmore lake by a resident Dubin man – will we ever beat the dubs?
Mervin Corway who originally comes from Dublin but now lives locally caught the first Salmon on the fly yesterday Monday 12th April on Carrowmore lake in the wilds of Mayo. The fish was a cracking and pure fresh 9lb fresh mayo Atlantic Salmon caught on one of Mervin’s own tied flies. Mervin had no sooner landed the first fish and he was into a second fish of approx 7lbs which was landed and carefully released.
We are thrilled that Mervin caught the first fish this year as he has worked hard for this title. Mervin has little to learn where angling is concerned but he has promised us he is working on improving his – ‘how to smile for the camera’ look.
Mervin also caught two more spring Salmon on the next day one of which was released so this is a fantastic start to his angling this year.
Now that the 5km area has been extended to inter-county travel we expect a couple of more anglers to fish the lake in the coming days and as temperatures rise we expect plenty of action in the coming days.