Waters

River Boyne (Navan–Trim stretches)

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Co. Meath · River · wild

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Weather check

Issued 17:59
NESW
Moderate north-easterly9 km/h · gusting 17 km/hBlowing from the north-east · fishing waveGusty — hard casting.
SKYWINDAIRRAINNENEgusts to 30peak 16 km/h18 °C16 °C0.9 mm at 20:00060912151821now
Today — conditions every three hours
TimeSkyWindAirRain
04:00cloudENE 12 km/h16 °Cdry
06:00cloudNE 12 km/h16 °Cdry
08:00cloudENE 15 km/h17 °Cdry
10:00cloudENE 16 km/h18 °Cdry
12:00rainENE 16 km/h17 °C0.6 mm
14:00rainENE 16 km/h17 °C0.5 mm
16:00rainENE 12 km/h17 °C0.5 mm
18:00cloudNE 9 km/h17 °C0.1 mm
20:00rainNE 8 km/h16 °C0.9 mm

Times are UTC · wind in km/h · sun and rain read left to right across the day.

Air
15–18°
Wind
16 km/h
Rain
3.8 mm

Water

measured

Ideal 13 °C

Trout are willing at every depth.

Measured at Trim · OPW

Fishing wave on the forecast.

Today · River Boyne (Navan–Trim stretches)

Best window today is dawn, around 06:17.

Water · Ideal (12–16°C)
Daylight↑ 05:0519:49 ↓00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00050100Fishability★ DawnMornMiddayEveDusknow

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Depth character (estimated)
Mixed depths · to ~2 m
Water clarity (estimated)
Clear
Exposure (estimated)
Moderate
Species
Brown trout →Atlantic salmon →

Getting there

Bank access: GoodAssociation-controlled throughout — a permit is needed rather than open access. Upper river: Edenderry & Castlejordan AA (best water around Castlejordan Bridge) and Longwood Anglers (Scarriff Bridge to Leinster Bridge, plus the Enfield Blackwater). Trim: Trim, Athboy & District AA day-permit water — right bank, Scurlogstown up to the Mill (~3.4 miles), online tickets, trout C&R 1 Jul–30 Sep per the club. Navan and below: Navan & District AA (Kilcarn, Blackcastle and Dunmoe beats; day permits online, fly-only for trout), Broadbridge AC (Ballinter–Kilcarn; permits at Hayes's Post Office, Navan) and Hayestown AC nearby; Rossin, Slane & District AC holds ~5.5 miles Slane–Oldbridge (beat maps on its own site); Drogheda & District AC fishes the tidal water from the Obelisk Bridge down. Tributaries: Deel & Boyne AA on the River Deel (dry-fly water, chest waders advised) and Stoneyford AA on the Stoneyford River (fly-only and catch-and-release below Stoneyford Bridge; some water too deep even for chest waders). Boundaries are club-defined — confirm at permit purchase; several smaller clubs' current contacts are unverified this season (full research trail in river-boyne-v2.json).
No boats
  • Kilcarn Bridge parking · Car parkKilcarn pools — Navan & District AA and Broadbridge AC water meet around here; confirm whose water at permit purchase.
  • Bellinter Bridge verge parking · Car parkBroadbridge AC water in the Ballinter–Kilcarn reach (permits at Hayes's Post Office, Navan) — confirm boundary at purchase.
  • Fisherman's Car Park (Blackcastle) · Car parkNavan & District AA Blackcastle water (~2 miles double-bank); day permits online — confirm at purchase.
  • Lower Blackcastle north-bank farm access · Car parkNavan & District AA lower Blackcastle beat; historic mill-weir pools — confirm access at purchase.
  • Dunmoe north-bank access · Car parkDunmoe beats — historic spring-salmon water and solid trout (Navan & District AA / Hayestown AC water nearby); confirm club water locally.
  • Scurlogstown Bridge · BridgeTrim, Athboy & District AA day-permit water — right bank, Scurlogstown up to the Mill (~3.4 miles); tickets online; trout C&R 1 Jul–30 Sep per club site — confirm boundary at purchase.
  • The Ramparts Car Park, Navan · Car parkNavan town water — the Ramparts and Sophie's Island pools (Navan & District AA); day permits online — confirm at purchase.
  • Slane Bridge · BridgeRossin, Slane & District AC water — ~5.5 miles Slane to Oldbridge (Laws Fishery, Molly Johnson's, Curly Hole); maps on the club site — confirm at purchase.
  • Oldbridge · TownLower end of the Rossin Slane water; river turns tidal about here — the salmon/sea-trout story below is closed for the 2026 season (see IFI regulations link).
  • Obelisk Bridge · BridgeDrogheda & District AC tidal water from the 'Pass' here down to Drogheda (Rathmullen & Mell fisheries) — contact the club; confirm at purchase.

Features

RifflesGlidesRunsPoolsWeir pools
Weed: UnknownStill not directly documented by any source found this session either. Carried forward unchanged: as a limestone river with slow, deep flats between Longwood and Navan, some marginal/bed weed growth in the slacker stretches would be typical, but no source specifically describes weed density or extent — do not assert a level without a local check.
Coarse fry present (Minnow, Stone loach, Stickleback, Roach, Perch, Gudgeon, Pike)

Local notes

Longwood-to-Navan is primarily a brown trout fishery (Longwood AA's own listing: excellent trout stocks, mostly 3/4lb with fish to 2-3lb; salmon rare above Navan). Around Navan itself the picture is genuinely mixed and, unlike a simple 'mixed' label, includes named productive spring-salmon beats as well as trout: the Ramparts and Sophie's Island pools near Navan bridge get a small early-season salmon run (roughly March-May, average fish around 10lb, mostly taken on spinner/shrimp with some to fly), and Blackcastle and Dunmoe — both sites of historic Civil Survey-era mill weirs, not part of the Slane-Navan canal system — are reported as 'very good spring beats' that have historically produced 20lb+ spring fish, alongside being solid trout water; Blackcastle in particular is roughly 2 miles of double-bank fishing. From Slane down to Oldbridge is unambiguously the main summer salmon/sea-trout zone (good runs July-September; named pools Scabby Arch, Crewbawn/Laws fishery, Molly Johnson's, Curly Hole/Curley Hole, Rossnaree) with brown trout present but outnumbered by migratory fish — this is independently corroborated by the controlling club's own site (rossinslaneangling.com), not just marketing-guide synthesis. Below Oldbridge the river is tidal (Oldbridge itself sits UPSTREAM of Drogheda — the 2026-07-07 package's correction of report 9's inversion stands), fished mainly by Drogheda & District AC, and is a salmon/sea-trout water rather than a trout destination; no evidence was found for any 'Belfast nets' intercepting fish here — commercial salmon netting in Ireland has been closed since 2007, so that claim is discarded. IMPORTANT TIME-SENSITIVE CONTEXT: under IFI's 2026 Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Angling Regulations, the Boyne is NOT open for salmon/sea-trout angling in the 2026 season (Navan AA is not issuing salmon day permits; TADA's own site carries the same closure notice) — this is current, not evergreen, and no bag-limit/CL figures are restated here per the link-out rule; check the IFI regulations page each season before writing any salmon-angling copy for this river. Hatch calendar, best-season window and the character split (faster riffles/runs/glides fishing well by day vs the deep, slow Longwood-Navan flats fishing best at dusk) are carried forward unchanged from the 2026-07-07 package.

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