Fishery News & Reports

MOUNT FALCON COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

Posted in Jul 2014

July brought sunshine and high temperatures to the Moy Valley, the river dropped and the water temperature increased. Despite this some fish did leave the tidal waters and make it to the Mount Falcon beats. Fishing conditions were difficult but despite this our guests did manage to catch a respectable 48 salmon on our private water.

The first week of month the Lucas Oehslin party (Switzerland), timed their arrival with a small flash flood on the Owenduff, where Lucas succeeded in catching his first salmon on the fly (5lb). A second salmon of 9lb was taken on the fly together with 10 sea-trout before the water dropped. Lucas followed up his fish on the Owenduff with another salmon from Mount Falcon at Connor’s Gap.

Regular visitors Mark Gessink and Paul Van Vert from Holland, took salmon on The Ridge Pool, Mount Falcon and Carramore lake during their stay.

The Moy did have one short lived rise in water level on the 17th of the month, and 8 salmon were taken from the Mount Falcon stretch on the day. The Gerhard Zahn party (Germany) all had salmon (worm/spinner), as did the Schadrack Geno (Germany) party. Victoria Roberts (UK) on her second visit to Mount Falcon had a successful week catching 5 fish (best 6lb), 3 were taken at Mount Falcon while the other 2 were caught on fly on the Ridge Pool, she also lost a fish on fly on Beltra Lake.

At this time there was also a significant (but short lived) rise on the Owenduff and the Bob English party (uk) caught 6 salmon and the same number of sea trout under the guidance of Mount Falcon ghillie Michael O’Kane. The largest fish weighed in at 12.5lb.

On his first visit to the Moy, Mike Bowsher had 5 fish, with his last day being a red letter one when he took 4 salmon including a fresh fish of around 7lb from the Wall Pool. Gary Jerks a regular visitor from UK had 7 fish for his week, while his fishing companion Mike Hornsby had 2.

The Beat Buettler party (Switzerland) here on a fly fishing package all succeeded in catching their first fly caught salmon, the venues being the Moy and Carramore Lake.

Mike Bowsher – 7lb Ridge Pool Salmon (Buettler Party) Owenduff – 12.5lb on!