What 15 years of IFI reports tell us about fishing in Ireland

We've analysed 286 IFI fishing reports spanning 15 seasons to build the most detailed picture of Irish fishing conditions ever assembled. Catch rates, hatch timings, best conditions, and seasonal patterns — distilled into actionable intelligence.

How we build intelligence reports

Every intelligence report is built from real IFI (Inland Fisheries Ireland) fishing reports published on fishinginireland.info. We use AI to extract structured data — species, catch rates, flies, hatches, conditions, and locations — from each report, then aggregate across seasons to identify patterns that no single report could reveal.

We cross-reference fishing outcomes with historical weather data (wind direction, temperature, cloud cover, precipitation) from Open-Meteo to understand which conditions consistently produce the best fishing.

More venues are being added as we process the full IFI archive of 15,000+ reports across trout, salmon, pike, coarse, and sea categories.