angling around south west donegal

This long established, annual two day international sea angling festival is renowned for the quality of fishing and the 'mighty craic'. Pre-booking essential....

Donegal has many wide bay and inlets waiting to be discovered. Activites such as fishing, diving, sight-seeing, whale watching can all be  undertaken with the help of a chartered boat.

Richard Timony offers this service on board his "F/V Smoothound". The Smoothound operates from Donegal town but is also stops at Mullinasloe, Mountcharles and Killybegs.

Richard has many years experience as a boat charter and as a diver. He has a  very...

The Glenties in Donegal has an abundance of Lakes offering unrestricted fishing for trout. The season opens April 1st and continues to the 30th September. In addition, there are a number of controlled lakes where licences can be aquired at McDevitt's Tackle Shop. The principal waters are Lough Kip, Lough Finn, and the rivers Owenea and the Gweebara estuary enquire locally for directions....

This is a lough of some 40 acres, 2 miles form Belleek on the A47 Pettigo road. It is stocked annually with brown and rainbow trout and being a limestone lough has a good stock of natural trout too. The season runs from 1 March to 30 September and there is a 4 trout bag limit and a 10 inch size limit. Only orthodox fly fishing is allowed. Boats may be hired from Mr John McGauran, Bally-megaghran, Leggs Post Office, or from the Carlton Hotel, Belleek. The avergae size of the trout here is over 1...

This lough is also on the Fermangh-Donegal border. Most of it is in Co. Fermanagh, but the best access is off a by road on the Donegal side. It has a nice stock of trout ranging in size from a half to one and a half lbs. Recent reports indicate that the fishing is not as good as it used to be and that the trout are smaller. There are good hatches of duckfly, olives, sedges and even mayfly. Lough Rushen is easy to fish from the shore and seems to fish best in the evening. An unusual feature of th...

Lough Derg is a large, shallow lough of over 2,000 acres, 4 miles north of Pettigo. This is the lough with the famous island known as St Patrick's Purgatory, with its basilica and penitential exercises, where pilgrims flock every year from June to August. What is less well known is that it holds a stock of nice trout averaging just under a pound and some much better ones too-trout to 4lb have been reported. The fish are pink fleshed and their diet consists mainly of Gammarus-freshwater shrimp. O...

Deep sea angling competition open to all club members overseas.This is held every weekend for the month of July....

Killybegs Angling Charters offeres full day and half days trips around the bay of Killybegs and further afield. Trips for fishing and diving groups are also looked after.

All of the trips are carried out on a boat named the "Meridian" which is owned by Brian McGilloway.

Brian has over 30 years in the charter angling business and is the operator of the Killbegs Angling Charters. He has an excellent knowlege...

Irelands newest charter vessel An Shannen Alainn launched in February 2004 is based between Teelin bay and Killybegs bay in south west Donegal, which has justifiably earned its reputation of being one of the premier Angling and Marine tourism destinations in Ireland.
Whatever your interest be it Angling Charters, Marine tourism Charters, Commercial Charters or Corporate Charters we at Bluefin Chartering will endeavour to satisfy our customers requirements....