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This was the 200 year old weir on the river Nore at Thomastown.
The river has been high since last year and we knew that a part of the wall had gone back in November but with all that water we could not get in to repair it then came the BIG flood last month now I think its beyond repair .
OK we may have lost a bit of heritage but after what I saw today we have
gained a new fly stream, the pond above the weir has dropped over 2' 6" and the run in the new stream is about 150 yards, I will let you know how it fishes
on March the 17 th (opening day on the Nore)
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Part of The new stream,this was once a slow deep pond locally known as Katty Kellys

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YEEEEHA The flyfishers.

jim

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Thats what we want to see happening at the weir at Carnroe.

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Hi rrw35 we were planning to build a rock ramp behind that weir next year but mother nature gave us a hand but we have 3 more obsolete weirs to deal with check out this web site www.noresuirrivertrust.org we had to put in a rock ramp on the Kilkenny weir in 2005/2006 as the “new fish pass” did not work

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Thats a good result there. I wish a few of the weirs on our local stream suffered the same fate......

Saw the fish pass on the news, what a joke!

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Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

what a place to drown a streamer,very nice

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Update on that weir at Kilkenny City after long battle the "fish pass "was removed and the hight of the weir was reduced then a rock ramp was constructed at the back to allow not only salmon, but eels, trout and lamprey
access to their spawning grounds

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Tight lines,
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www.noresuirrivertrust.org
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