Canada Fishing Info

Angling industry feels the bite as tourists drift away - National News, Frontpage - Independent. Blackwater Lodge offers a unique tourism product — superb private and exclusive salmon fishing over 40 miles of the famed river between Lismore, Co Waterford and Mallow, Co Cork . Run by Ian and Glenda Powell , it has its own tackle shop and smokery, and offers anglers a range of services including ghillies, tackle hire and fly-casting instruction by Glenda Powell — the most highly qualified female salmon fly casting instructor in Europe . Ian says that the ban on drift net fishing came out of the blue — despite years of campaigning. However, the Central Statistics Office points out that the Easter break was — unusually — in the first quarter of the year in 2008 and they suggest this could account for some of the increase. read more

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