River Dodder (Dublin city)
Baseline tacticsCo. Dublin · River · wild
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Issued 17:58| Time | Sky | Wind | Air | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04:00 | cloud | ENE 7 km/h | 17 °C | dry |
| 06:00 | cloud | ENE 7 km/h | 17 °C | dry |
| 08:00 | cloud | E 9 km/h | 18 °C | dry |
| 10:00 | rain | ESE 11 km/h | 17 °C | 0.4 mm |
| 12:00 | rain | ENE 14 km/h | 17 °C | 0.4 mm |
| 14:00 | rain | E 10 km/h | 17 °C | 0.4 mm |
| 16:00 | cloud | ENE 8 km/h | 18 °C | dry |
| 18:00 | cloud | NE 9 km/h | 17 °C | 0.2 mm |
| 20:00 | cloud | NE 10 km/h | 17 °C | dry |
Times are UTC · wind in km/h · sun and rain read left to right across the day.
- Air
- 17–18°
- Wind
- 14 km/h
- Rain
- 3.4 mm
Water
measuredWarm 16 °C
Fish the cool ends of the day. Barbless, quick, wet hands.
Measured at Anglesea Road · OPW
Fishing wave on the forecast.
Today · River Dodder (Dublin city)
Best window today is dawn, around 06:17.
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Getting there
- Firhouse (Balrothery Weir) · TownFirhouse/Templeogue: near the top of the trout water and the Bohernabreena reservoirs. The river rises fast off the Dublin mountains after rain -- check levels before wading.
- Bushy Park, Terenure · TownBushy Park, Terenure: off-road parking, footbridges into the Milltown-Rathfarnham trout stretch. Club permit needed -- confirm outlet/price at purchase.
- Classon's Bridge, Milltown · BridgeWeir pool below Classon's Bridge (the Dropping Well) -- named as holding the river's better trout, occasional 3-4 lb fish. Club permit needed; confirm at purchase.
- Clonskeagh Bridge · BridgeUpstream start of a special bye-law stretch running down to the Liffey at Ringsend, 1 June-30 Sept -- see IFI for the current rules; app links out, doesn't restate them.
- Herbert Park, Ballsbridge · TownHerbert Park borders the river; head of the recommended Herbert Park-to-Beaver Row trout stretch. Orwell Bridge permit kiosk nearby -- confirm price/outlet at purchase.
Features
Local notes
A genuinely flashy spate river off the Dublin/Wicklow mountains (source on the northern slopes of Kippure), not a limestone river — expect it to rise and fall quickly after mountain rain (roughly a 20-24 hour rise to peak per flood-study material), with the Bohernabreena reservoirs at Glenasmole partially damping, not eliminating, that flashiness downstream. The trout water runs Old Bawn (Tallaght) down to Ballsbridge, with Herbert Park-to-Beaver Row and Milltown-to-Rathfarnham the two most accessible, most-recommended stretches (linear parks, footbridges, mostly off-road parking). Wild and stocked brown trout run small on average — fingerling to around 6 inches is typical — but occasional trout to 3-4 lb turn up in the deeper pools above and below weirs (e.g. the pool below the Classon's Bridge/Dropping Well weir at Milltown), and evening into dusk consistently outfishes the day, especially once park foot-traffic drops. Sea trout hold in the lower river down into the tidal reach below Ballsbridge and fish best late summer, under a separate, stricter IFI bye-law on the lower river (Clonskeagh Road Bridge down to the Liffey at Ringsend) — check the current terms on IFI's site before fishing it — treat this as a distinct fishery from the resident-brown-trout story upstream. Atlantic salmon have recolonised the tidal stretch each spring since the early 2000s, a genuine urban-recovery story, but this reads as an ecological headline rather than a developed salmon fishery: no source describes it as a viable target fishery.