IFI opens fourth draw for River Easkey salmon tags for 2025
Anglers wanting to enter a lottery draw on July 30th for one of 15 brown tags can apply at the IFI website from today, July 11th, until midnight on July 27th, 2025.
Commenting, Mary Walsh IFI Western region director(Ballina) said: 'The numbers of wild Atlantic salmon returning to our rivers is declining. The risk of over-fishing puts stocks in further jeopardy.
"Brown tag measures for salmon and sea trout are required on the Easkey River to conserve stocks and prevent accidental over-harvesting.
"Where there is a modest harvestable surplus, this brown gill tag system is introduced to closely monitor the angling quotas."
A total of 60 brown tags are available for the 2025 angling season.
Tags will be distributed to anglers with a rod licence via four draws the 2025 angling season, with 15 brown tags available to be won in each draw.
Anglers who receive a brown tag via the lottery should place them on a salmon or sea trout – along with a blue tag – as proof it was lawfully caught and may be retained for private use.
Each angler is limited to one entry per lottery and is eligible to win one brown tag per season.
Previous draws were held in February, April and May.
Any anglers not allocated a brown tag are permitted to fish for salmon and sea trout at the River Easkey catchment on a catch-and-release basis, where the fish is returned safely to the same waterbody.
Anglers must use catch-and-release methods only, involving single or double barbless hooks. Use of worms as bait is not permitted.
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