River Drowes News Today

The start to the 2024 salmon season on New Years Day was a wash-out at the River Drowes. Despite the best efforts of hopeful fishermen, catches…

My first Christmas present arrived mid-November.

Fishery officers are suffering serious threats and abuse from salmon poachers who posing a serious risk to entire stocks from Irish rivers, the Sunday World can reveal.

Thousands of ancient holy wells in Ireland that serve as sites of worship and prayer continue to attract visits from miracle-seekers.

Estimated ten pounder caught just after midday from Briney’s Pool upstream of Lennox’s Bridge.

FERMANAGH angler Pete Keane celebrated the New Year by catching one of the first salmon in Ireland in 1993.

The north west’s most famous salmon river, the River Drowes which straddles the border between south Donegal and north Leitrim, will see fishing commence ...

If Ireland’s salmon rivers were vineyards, 2022 would not have been a vintage year.

Chris Donegan is ready to hook readers with his look back at the lockdowned start of 2021s salmon fishing season in Bundoran, and a preview of the…

How lucky do you have to be to catch Ireland’s first salmon of the year? How lucky do you have to be to do it twice, most recently in the midst of a pandemic? Joe Broderick knows the answer. He caught Ireland’s first salmon of the year from the River Drowes back in 2003, long before any of us could even have dreamt of Covid-19 in our worst nightmare. And now he has done it again, this time under the severe restrictions that have confined most of us to our homes. Joe is one of on...