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There are many good fishing waters in the area. Apart from the Blackwater which offers trout and pike, you can catch eels in more than a score of rivers and lakes in beautiful countryside. There's free fishing in Poyntz Pass Canal, the Cusher and Callan rivers and half-a-dozen lakes....

County Wicklow, The Garden of Ireland, is renowned for its magnificent landscape, dramatic Loughs, mountainous terrain and long sandy beaches. With a large range of rivers, lakes and sea fishing opportunities to choose from your angling holiday in Co. Wicklow will certainly be and enjoyable one. Only 12 miles from Dublin, Ireland's capital city, the county is easily accessible from the ports of Dun Laoghaire and Rosslare, Co. Wexford or from Dublin Airport. Co. Wicklow has some of the best ri...

Spelga Dam, as it is popularly known, is set in the heart of the Mourne Mountains in some of the remotest and liveliest scenery in Northern Ireland. It is also very accessible off the B27 from Hilltown to Kilkeel. It holds brown trout, the season is from 1 March to 31 October, and all legal methods except groundbait and maggots are allowed. Permission...

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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....

Sea Angling:
For the sea angler there is excellent deep sea angling for a wide range of different species from May onwards to about October. Blue shark from the end of July is particularly good around the Aran Islands where some of the boats take up to twenty a day, all of which are released again.

Roundstone and the Clifden areas are also good for blue shark and the occasional porbeagle is caught there, too. There are a number of well-equipped boats at the different locat...

These waters vary in size from 18 acres up to the 127 acres of Lough Mourne. They all lie north of Carrickfergus and the season runs from 1 March to 31 October, except for the North reservoir where the season is announced annually. Angling is not permitted before 8am or after 10pm. There is a 4 trout daily bag limit and an orthodox fly fishing only is allowed on the Upper and Lower South reservoirs. All legitimate methods on the others, except groundbait and maggots. North Woodburn is stocked wi...

Kiltimagh has played host to the National Pike Angling Championships with great success. Kiltimagh is the ideal location for the Angler with its excellent range of Hotels, B&B's and Self Catering Accommodation, and you are sure of the warm welcome in one of the many friendly pubs in the town....

This is a large, shallow expanse of water between Inch Island in Lough Swilly and the mainland at Burnfoot. The water is brackish and the level is maintained by means of floodgates in the dam wall. It now holds occasional salmon and sea trout but was once noted as one of the greatest sea trout fisheries in Donegal. The trout are mainly taken on sand eels and by spinning, through you many still chance to get one on a Teal Blue and Silver or Peter Ross off the cormer of the dam. Permission: Not u...