Spate · Mixed · East / Louth-Monaghan

River Fane

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East coast spate river draining the Louth-Monaghan border country.

Marginal · Brown Trout
Partridge and Orange · 14-16
Marginallive now
Slow going — pick your moments
Low and clear — careful approach country. Cover and shadow are doing the work today.
80% confidence
What moved it
  • Level0.39 mLast reading 4h ago
  • Water temp19.6°C
  • ClarityClear
Today’s fly
Partridge and Orange
Partridge and Orange14-16
Upstream
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Level
Steady
0.39 m
Last reading 4h ago
Water temp19.6°C
ClarityClear
Weather13°C
WindNW 14 km/h
Pressure1023 hPa
Rain · recent12.1 mm
Rain · ahead2.0 mm

Live readings only. Trends shown where the gauge supports them.

Water temperature for brown trout
Warm — slow
19.6°Cideal 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
⚠️ Water at 19.6°C — above the brown trout caution line (18°C). Fish dawn or dusk only. Land it fast, wet hands, no air shots. Otherwise poor — water clarity is in the right range.
Hatch timeline · todayQuiet day

Hatch predictions

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalModerate confidence

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

Through the year
0–3 scale · July highlighted
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Salmon runRun
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Trout seasonSeason
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Daddy Long LegsHatch
2
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2
March BrownHatch
2
3
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GrannomHatch
2
2
Large StoneflyHatch
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
Cooler water nearby · 1
Water here at 19.6°C — the fishing's alive, but these are cooler if you'd rather rest the warm water.
River Glyde
13 km
13.7°C
Brown trout
Gallery · 1
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About this water

East coast spate river draining the Louth-Monaghan border country. Wild brown trout with some sea trout in the lower reaches. Good fly hatches and wild brown trout. Sea trout component in the lower reaches; salmon presence likely but FII coverage is tentative.

  • Mixed
The full read · show the working · for brown trout · confidence 80%
How the 30 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature30 × 28%8.4
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time40 × 13%5.2
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity52 × 12%6.2
Conditions total= 60
Can you trust it?
Water temperaturelive gauge readinggauge
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
Cooler water — back toward the 10–16 °C ideal band — would lift the score and ease welfare.
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
Directions
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Seasons & zones
  • Salmon1 March → 12 OctoberC&R
  • Trout1 March → 30 September
Related guides
ConnemaraIrish fishingEuro Nymphingsubsurface methods
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