Best freshwater catches of the year 2011.

[robbiekennedy]

no bother it was the river lickey in waterford it flows into the blackwater .ah its only a big stream really,there used to be a fish farm on its banks and every now and again fine big rainbows used to escape to the river fish 6 or 7 pounds, used to be good crack but thought i was seeing things with the flounder

[cathalger]

no bother it was the river lickey in waterford it flows into the blackwater .ah its only a big stream really,there used to be a fish farm on its banks and every now and again fine big rainbows used to escape to the river fish 6 or 7 pounds, used to be good crack but thought i was seeing things with the flounder

Rainbows of that size would give good sport on a small river! If theres any salmon parr in the lickey youd maybe want to be removing those big ould rainbows, we have the same situation going on right here, a fella caught a 2.5lb rainbow there in the summer and it had a 7 inch sea trout smolt looking out of its throat, the word gorb comes to mind.

[robbiekennedy]

ah its a few years back since the farm was open so they are well gone.also they had a type of char that used to escape in.there used to be lovely sea trout there too but they seem to have vanished,but thanks for the info on the river flounders.i learn something new every day i take it they are the same breed flounder we get in the sea

[cathalger]

The same boy. I dont know if any research has been done into their movements between salt and freshwater during their life? It might be worth googling but chances are there isnt a [pile of research done on it yet??????

The lickey sounds like an interesting wee river to fish at times. We have a river here with a rainbow farm on it, some of the rainbows go to sea and come back in like steelheads, theyll appear up in neighbouring rivers too. But they ust be having an impact on the salmon parr, as if the salmon arent gettin it tight enough.

[chuckaroo]

some of the rainbows go to sea and come back in like steelheads

wtf, i didnt know that

they ust be having an impact on the salmon parr, as if the salmon arent gettin it tight enough.

[cathalger]

There was a big outbreak of rainbow in June Charlie, the river was teeming with them and initially they were very easily caught on anything you threw in the water, there were boys gettin dozens in a few hours. After a week or 2 the ones that hadnt been caught became a bit wilier and werent so suicidal. Was talkin to a young lad at the time, he was getting them on ragworm at the pier. I have had a few sea run rainbow in the river the farm is on and in the Dall, I know fellas who have got them up the Dun too. They all come from the one farm. You know theyve been to sea cos they are like wee salmon, rock solid bars of silver. The migratory gene is in them, or in some of them anyway.

[robbiekennedy]

catching flounders from fresh water and rainbows from the sea the world is gone mad