The late English poet laureate Ted Hughes described salmon as “sensitive glands in the vast, dishevelled body of nature, as individual meteorological stations responding to rain, storm, and wind”.

During the 2012 angling season Mt Collins/Brosna Anglers Association put a lot of information we had in our possession into the public domain in an effort to highlight the shocking demise of a once famous river called the Feale.

A SHARP decline in the number of salmon entering a well-known angling river could close it as a fishery in 2013.