Spate · Mixed · East / Louth-Monaghan, IE

River Fane

River Fane Retreat venue image

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

Today · Closed season
Stonefly Nymph
Forecast · Today
Closed season
Out of season. Try elsewhere.
90% projected
Today's fly
Stonefly Nymph
Stonefly Nymph
Conditions on the water · Today
Live gauge
Level
Steady
0.33 m
Water temp8.1°C
ClarityClear
Weather5°C
WindN 22 km/h
Pressure1013 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm
Rain · ahead0.0 mm

The nearest gauge doesn't record temperatures, so we've estimated it — defer to the river keeper's advice.

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Cool — slow
8°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.
Likely species
Stoneflies
Gammarids
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 11am

12pm(now) — Autumn Needle Fly

Stage: Creeping nymphsApproach: Heavy nymphActivity: 75%
Also:Autumn Olive32%Black Midge31%
Peak emergence window5 food groups active

Peak activity at 11am — Autumn Needle Fly (Autumn Needle Fly, Peak emergence window)

Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

Hatch predictions

Top nymph shown — see all 4 guilds 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 · November highlighted
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F
M
A
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Salmon runRun
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
Trout seasonSeason
1
2
2
2
2
2
1
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
Ballymascanlan River
16 km
0
Brown trout · Sea trout
River Fane
< 1 km
Brown trout
Castletown River
12 km
Brown trout · Sea trout
River Glyde
15 km
Brown trout
River Glyde
15 km
Brown trout
Gallery · 1
  1. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

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 is possible but not well documented.

Hatches & food

EPA invertebrate monitoring on the River Fane confirms mayflies, stoneflies, caddis, midges and blackflies, and freshwater shrimp and hoglice are present across its WFD segments. This is food-presence evidence from kick sampling, not a hatch calendar.

  • Mixed
The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 90%
How the 0 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature82 × 28%23.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time60 × 13%7.8
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity51 × 12%6.1
Conditions total= 77
Can you trust it?
Water temperaturelive gauge readinggauge
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
Directions
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Seasons & zones
  • Salmon 1 March → 12 OctoberC&R
  • Trout 1 March → 30 September
Related guides
ConnemaraIrish fishingEuro Nymphingsubsurface methods
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Booking & contacts
At a glance

River Fane is a spate river in East / Louth-Monaghan, Ireland. It sits at about 59 m above sea level. The species listed for this water is brown trout. The trout season is recorded as running from 1 March to 30 September. The salmon season is recorded as running from 1 March to 12 October. Core methods listed: soft_hackle_swing; upstream_nymph; small_wet_fly. Level and flow data for this water is linked from 1 gauge. Nearby waters in our listings include River Fane at < 1 km, Castletown River at 12 km and River Glyde at 15 km.