Cairde an Chláir

Author: Dennis Moss

  • Sheelin 2024

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    At the turn of the Millennium, Lough Sheelin was a lost soul. Ireland’s anglers had given up on the fishery and the word was, it was finished. How that has now changed, acre for acre this very rich limestone lough is producing more trout in the 50 to 60cm size range than any other fishery…

  • Justice is a dish best served cold

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    Following some diligent protection work, the recent disclosure by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), three brown trout seized in Galway has stirred further criticism of Cairde an Chláir’s actions concerning the new Bye-law No. 1008, 2023. Since the new bye-law was introduced in April 2024, Cairde an Chláir has been criticised by a very vocal minority…

  • Omaum Development

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    The Omaum, this 1400 metre enhancement completes our instream development work for 2024 and it will be the last of our posts for instream development work this year. This enhancement is the biggest of our scheduled developments and when added to the previous project work, the total for instream development accrued to 3000 metres for…

  • River Nanny, Drumaskin

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    Those who are familiar with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, will know that on a warm summers day Alice falls asleep and drifts into a dream about Wonderland. Well on my walk yesterday to cover the River Nanny development at Drumaskin, I felt like I was walking through Wonderland. This stunning 700 metre…

  • Birmingham Demesne roundup

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    Took a final look at the instream work for the Birmingham Demesne project. All instream development for this 500 metre enhancement has now been completed and attached are a few photos to round-up this projects work.

  • A History in the Making

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    2024 will be seen as a landmark year for Cairde an Chláir. In April the two fish bag limit was approved and put into law by Minister, Eamon Ryan and then at the end of July, the dream target of 3000 metres of stream development had been achieved. What a year, what a memorable time…

  • Lough Sheelin Trout Preservation Association

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    Cairde an Chláir is delighted to provide a link to the Lough Sheelin Trout Preservation Association (LSTPA) website. The LSTPA was founded to improve and preserve Lough Sheelin, at a time when all had given up on this once world famous fishery. They lobbied and campaigned to improve water quality within the catchment. This led to…

  • River Nanny: Birmingham Demesne continued

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    Following photographs show the varying methods used to improve the river for spawning

  • River Nanny: Birmingham Demesne

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    The next phase in our 2024 schedule for stream development is the Birmingham Demesne project on the River Nanny. This 500 metre enhancement will create fresh spawning sites on a section of the River Nanny where spawning potential is poor due to previous land drainage work. Rock deflectors were not required for this development but…

  • Nanny river: Pollaphuca enhancement 2022

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    This development on the headwaters of the river Nanny was completed in 2022. I walked this development in April 2023 just to see how the scars of the enhancement had recovered and took some photographs. 400 metres had been sympathetically enhanced and in just over six months the obvious scars of recent development work had…