The inclement weather hit the opening day of the salmon season yesterday.
"Most anglers went home early," according to the river Drowes fisheries manager Shane Gallagher.
“High murky water levels coupled with constant sleety rain”, had made angling almost impossible for the 80 anglers, he said.
There were no signs of salmon for the hardy few who braved the conditions in an attempt to land the first salmon of the season.
Islandbridge flooding
It was a similar story on the river Liffey.
There, the traditional gathering on the island at Islandbridge by Dublin and District Salmon Anglers club members was abandoned due to flooding.
Instead, the hatchery area on the mainland was substituted for the 20 anglers who had turned up and "only one or two actually threw a line", according to club member Gerry Heaslip.