Spate · Mixed · East / Wicklow, IE

Avoca River

The Avoca River bending past colourful houses and a church spire in Avoca village, Co. Wicklow

The Avoca is formed at the Meeting of the Waters, where the Avonmore and Avonbeg join, and runs on through Avoca to the sea at Arklow, gathering the Aughrim on the way.

Tomorrow · Slow going — pick your moments
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Forecast · Tomorrow
Slow going — pick your moments
Slow going — pick your moments and do not force it.
45% projected
Today's fly
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Conditions on the water · Tomorrow
Proxy gauge
Level
Rising
Proxy
via Derry Water
Water temp13.4°C
ClarityVery coloured
Weather11°C
WindN 14 km/h
Pressure1020 hPa
Rain · recent3.0 mm
Rain · ahead12.0 mm

No gauge on this water — conditions are inferred from Derry Water. The trend transfers, the absolute level does not.

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Ideal
13°C est.ideal 10–16°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for Brown Trout
When
Nymphing can work through most of the day.
Where
Cover mixed depths.
Method
Start with tight-line nymphs and adjust if fish rise or drift higher.
Kit
9 ft #4 rod, floating line, 12 ft tapered leader to 4–5 lb fluoro tippet.
Why this works
Excellent — water temperature is working for you, but time of day is the limiting factor today.
Likely species
Stoneflies
Caddisflies
Gammarids
Hatch timeline · tomorrowPeak at 2pm

12pm(now) — Heather Fly

Stage: Terrestrials on topApproach: Dry flyActivity: 67%
Also:Reed Smut48%Autumn Dun36%Cinnamon Sedge27%
Peak emergence windowWeather boost12 food groups active

Peak activity at 2pm — Autumn Dun (Autumn Dun, Weather boost)

Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

Hatch predictions

Top nymph shown — see all 3 guilds as a supporter.

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey(1)

Hatch predictions

Top prey shown — see all 2 as a supporter.

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalHigh confidence

Backed by regional invertebrate surveys; no sampling on this exact reach yet.

Through the year
0–3 scale · September highlighted
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Trout seasonSeason
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2
2
2
2
2
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March BrownHatch
2
3
2
CapererHatch
2
3
3
2
Heather FlyHatch
2
2
Autumn DunHatch
2
3
2

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Brown Trout fly box
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Other water nearby · 5
Aughrim River
8.0 km
30
Brown trout
Aughrim River
8.0 km
Brown trout
Derry Water
9.0 km
0
Brown trout
Derry Water
9.0 km
Brown trout
River Avonmore
9.0 km
Brown trout
Gallery · 2
  1. The Avoca River bending past colourful houses and a church spire in Avoca village, Co. Wicklow
    The Avoca River flowing through Avoca village, County Wicklow
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

The Avoca is formed at the Meeting of the Waters, where the Avonmore and Avonbeg join, and runs on through Avoca to the sea at Arklow, gathering the Aughrim on the way. Its history is a sad one for an angler: drainage from the old Avoca copper mines scarred the main river, and its trout fishing remains limited because of it. The better wild-trout water is upstream, on the Avonmore and Avonbeg headwaters before they meet.

Hatches & food

Mining pollution has left the lower main river poor for fly life and trout; what hatches there are run to hardy stoneflies, a few olives and summer sedges, with terrestrials important along the wooded banks.

  • Mixed
The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 75%
How the 80 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature100 × 28%28.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time40 × 13%5.2
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity51 × 12%6.1
Conditions total= 80
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowproxy via Derry Waterproxy
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout 15 March → 30 September
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