Lough Corrib Angling Federation & Hatchery

20/04/2026

A short educational video on the running of the hatchery

20/03/2026

Great to see the fry in the streams today after all the floods over the last few weeks. We just have to make sure no predators take a liking to them now.

03/03/2026

Great to see the students of Colaiste Iognaid helping out today releasing the last of the fry with John. Thats another highly successful year at the hatchery coming to a close with approximately 210000 fry released back into the system. Thanks to all the volunteers who help out since October and made this year so productive. A shout out also to the 9 clubs of the federation for funding all this work.

25/02/2026

Some of the fry being released back into the Owenriff system today after the floods of the last week.

21/02/2026

Some fantastic trays of fly ready for release back into the Owenriff system. Thanks to Michael, John and all the team that got the them to this point.

27/01/2026

04/01/2026

Happy New year to all our followers and friends.
Thanks to the dedication of Mike and the team of volunteers looking after the hatchery the first of the eggs in one or two of the trays have just started to hatch in the last few days. The water temperature is 4°c and we have a survival rate of 95.9% of the fertilised eggs so far this year.
We'll keep you posted with more updates in the coming weeks.

08/11/2025

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out over the last 2 days getting the trout stripped. All the fertilised eggs are now safely in the incubation unit.

05/11/2025

Very disappointing to see images coming in today from 4 different locations on the lake. Birchall, killbeg, Burnthouse and Annaghdown. Today is the first calm day recently and the level of runoff from the land is evident. Not good when you see our government trying to get an extension to the nitrates directive. It's not just lough Neagh and lough Derg that's in trouble.
Two images now from Derrymoyle, Oughterard this evening, these algae blooms are present all over the lake.

28/10/2025