Category: restoration
The Finaway Restoration Project
In late September I walked a development in the Sheelin catchment, a tributary of the Mount Nugent river, the Finaway. Brenda Montgomery, Assistant Inspector, Inland Fishery Ireland (IFI) and Thomas Lynch, secretary Lough Sheelin Trout Protection Association (LSTPA), kindly invited me to walk this development with them and to show me the work which they…
Sheelin 2024
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…
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