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Watch us on YouTube – Delphi Lodge Sea Trout Fishing Doo Lough Video
In the summer months, sea trout may be caught at Delphi, although stocks of these wonderful fish are volatile, being vulnerable to parasites from salmon farming. Sea trout must be released alive.
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“Delphi is an ‘Elysium Piscatorum’” WALTERPEARD, ‘AYEAROF LIBERTY’, 1867
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