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West Cork

Doc Farrell · 2009-07-06 23:14:19

I don't know where to begin on this subject so let me just mention one tiny river that is located on the beautiful osi.ie maps but has no official name. Mizen head penninsula has a tiny river at the end of a bay that once had salmon and sea trout but they died out a few years ago. This weekend, in the rain, I watched a…

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07-07-2009 12:14am

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Doc Farrell

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I don't know where to begin on this subject so let me just mention one tiny river that is located on the beautiful osi.ie maps but has no official name.

Mizen head penninsula has a tiny river at the end of a bay that once had salmon and sea trout but they died out a few years ago. This weekend, in the rain, I watched a half dozen sea trout of at least 3 pound in weight playing around a weir as the tide rose. The owner of the land came round and told me that the river beyond used to be a spawning ground. Well, they are back.

I've never seen such beautiful, big, fearless fish.

I asked the landowner not to mention these fish to anyone until I've had a chance to ask someone their advice in the southern fisheries board.

I watched these black backed, silver bellied fish playing in the tiny tidal stream and felt not just a sense of gratitude but an awful melancholy that other men, landowners even, will net these fish until they are simply, no more.

We've so many beautiful streams and lakes and rivers on our island, wouldn't it be a true measure of our development as a nation if every waterway could hold such jewels?

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