Spate · Mixed · East / Wicklow

Avoca River

The Avoca River bending past colourful houses and a church spire in Avoca village, Co. Wicklow

The Avoca is formed at the Meeting of the Waters, where the Avonmore and Avonbeg join, and runs on through Avoca to the sea at Arklow, gathering the Aughrim on the way.

Marginal · Brown Trout
Pheasant Tail Nymph · 14-18
Marginallive now
Slow going — pick your moments
River temperature is the limiting factor today, not the flow. Fish dawn or dusk if you go at all, and handle everything with extra care.
80% confidence
What moved it
  • LevelProxyvia Derry Water
  • Water temp18.9°C
  • ClarityClear
Today's fly
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Pheasant Tail Nymph14-18
Upstream
Conditions on the water
Proxy gauge
Level
Steady
Proxy
via Derry Water
Water temp18.9°C
ClarityClear
Weather26°C
WindS 19 km/h
Pressure1020 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm
Rain · ahead0.5 mm

No gauge on this water — conditions are inferred from Derry Water. The trend transfers, the absolute level does not.

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Warm — slow
19°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.
Why this works
Water at 18.9°C — above the brown trout caution line (18°C). Fish dawn or dusk only. Land it fast, wet hands, no air shots.
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 6am

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Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

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Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
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Trout seasonSeason
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Daddy Long LegsHatch
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March BrownHatch
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GrannomHatch
2
2
Large StoneflyHatch
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
Water here around 19°C. Nothing cooler within range — carry a thermometer.
Gallery · 2
  1. The Avoca River bending past colourful houses and a church spire in Avoca village, Co. Wicklow
    The Avoca River flowing through Avoca village, County Wicklow
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

The Avoca is formed at the Meeting of the Waters, where the Avonmore and Avonbeg join, and runs on through Avoca to the sea at Arklow, gathering the Aughrim on the way. Its history is a sad one for an angler: drainage from the old Avoca copper mines scarred the main river, and its trout fishing remains limited because of it. The better wild-trout water is upstream, on the Avonmore and Avonbeg headwaters before they meet.

Hatches & food

Mining pollution has left the lower main river poor for fly life and trout; what hatches there are run to hardy stoneflies, a few olives and summer sedges, with terrestrials important along the wooded banks.

  • Mixed
The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 80%
How the 34 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature41 × 28%11.5
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time55 × 13%7.2
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity62 × 12%7.4
Conditions total= 66
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowproxy via Derry Waterproxy
What would change the calculation
Cooler water — back toward the 10–16 °C ideal band — would lift the score and ease welfare.
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout 15 March → 30 September
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