Ballyshannon Dam (Assoroe Lake)

[Irishmac 5]

Anyone fish the Ballyshannon dam, and had any luck?

Hearing mixed reports about it.

[niall_b73 41]

i got a licence for it last year and bank fished it a couple of times, got nothing.

i have not tried it since, thats not to say that there is nothing there tho.

i live not to far away from it but i have never herd of any good catch reports, there again i could be listening in the wrong places !!

 

niall_b73

[remi700 99]

What do you want to fish it for? Some huge silver eels go down it if your there at the right time of the year.

[niall_b73 41]

What do you want to fish it for? Some huge silver eels go down it if your there at the right time of the year.

 

that is also supposed to be true but upper and lower lough erne are legally netted to cacth all eel moving towards the sea.

this is done by kathleen falls, the hydropowerstation and they are then put on to tanks and driven down to ballyshannon jetty the other side of the dam and released into the erne estuary where the seals, cormorants and the rest are all waiting for them.

 

i have wittnesed this myself.

 

niall_b73

[niall_b73 41]

this is it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1tgQtlKYY

 

niall_b73

[LUMPHAMMER 324]

Fcuking ell mate lol

[Irishmac 5]

Heard there were massive pike in it. Have been fishing different parts of the erne system and having not much luck.

 

Thanks for the replies.