5 July: 1130: Very heavy rain last night and stormy conditions, plenty of grilse and sea trout are now running. A guest with Dominic Mc Gillicudy had one salmon and one grilse this morning.

4 July: The weather deteriorated in the afternoon and fishing became difficult. One further salmon was taken by a guest with Dominic Mc Gillicudy. More rain toorrow.

4 July 1330: Extreme weather with storm force winds.Three Salmon/ grilse this morning with a guest with Terence Wharton Jnr taking one while Michael Wright took two salmon of 6lbs and 8lbs and a sea trout of 3lbs , all fresh with sea lice.John Allen and Jim Sayers had a good day on Na Mona yesterday with four seatrout from 2.5lbs to 7.5lbs all returned.

3 July: A foul day with hail stones and storm force winds. One superb salmon fell to a guest with Dominic Mc Gillicudy at 12.5lbs, two grilse and a number of sea trout fell to Mike Fish with Mike Dwyer, two grilse to 6.5lbs were taken by John Baller with Neil O Shea. John had four salmon and eight sea trout for his visit. Two guests Tom and Jenny Drysdale with Donal O Shea had two superb sea trout at 2.75lbs and 4.5lbs, the larger fresh. Good runs in the last number of days.

2 July: A number of salmon and grilse were taken today with Stephen Galvin 9.5lbs, Tom Corcoran 10.5lbs, guests with Donal O Shea had a grilse and a number of sea trout. Grilse are entering in numbers with small seatrout also running.

1 July: A good flood today with the lake rising, grilse are running with trout in the 1lb range showing in catches. A number of catches over the past few days were Dara Treacy two trout to 1.75lbs, Phil Cronin three trout to 4.5lbs, Rene Lachemeir six trout to 3.5lbs, John Reid grilse of 4.5lbs, guests with Mike Dwyer had seven trout while a guest with Tom O Shea had a salmon of 6lbs. Grilse have arrived in Kenmare Bay so we should get a good run.Grilse were observed this evening entering the system.

30 June 1200: Storm force winds are bashing the coast this morning with fishing difficult.The grilse have arrived this morning with Neil O Shea and John Baller taking two while a guest with Mike Dwyer had one. Other grilse were also lost. More rain tonight so lets hope. The grilse are very fresh with sea lice and thankfully unmarked.Reports from the rest of the country are poor so lets hope that the fish arrive this week. When the driftnet fishermen were fishing in recent times their biggest catches were in Mid July so lets hope that with the netting stopped we will see a substantial increase in the next number of weeks.

28 June: Heavy rain forecast for weekend and next week will see the system in spate. Last night saw increased runs of small sea trout up to 1lb running and with high tides we will see improved fishing. One grilse fell to a guest with Terence Wharton.Grilse are still scarce as with all Irish fisheries and this coming week will probably see the start of good runs. All fisheries have seen their grilse runs shift over the last decade to much later in the year with July now the prefered time for runs.

26 June: North East winds have really taken hold at the moment but weather from west with heavy rain is making an appearance on next Friday. Grilse fell to Tommy Duggan and Michael Rieger with some excellent fresh sea trout around the 2lb mark landed. Fly fishing is difficult at the moment but with west wind and mild weather this should improve.One good feature of the cold weather is that the water temp is falling.

24 June: A number of salmon and seatrout were taken today but conditions were against the fly. Michael Reiger had a fine fresh salmon of 8lbs and a number of good fresh sea trout, other anglers reported fresh sea trout to 3lbs on troll. We are to have excellent conditions next Fri and Sat with South West winds and rain possibly very heavy.