This will be a salmon and dollaghan page but is not even started yet.

This is a picture of the more traditional method of salmon fishing. These fishermen catch salmon in nets as part of a commercial fishery along the north coast of Co. Antrim. As you might imagine this is a fairly dangerous lark and I don't imagine that they make their fortune at it. While this isn't the sort of fishing you might expecting on a site with a lot of fly fishing information it is, never the less, an important part of salmon fishing in most areas.

The picture above is just a place keeper as this page is still under construction, to put it lightly. However to save you having to e-mail me and ask a dollaghan is a brown trout which runs the Lough Neagh rivers in the summer and autumn. In the US such fish are often refered to as "fall run browns" and that is basically what it is. The dollaghan behaves in a similar way to a sea trout but instead of going to sea it runs to a freshwater lough. They can grow quite large and the biggest one I am aware of this year was 13 pounds.

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