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Sea fishing for conger, dogfish, mackerel and plaice is popular from the rocks and piers all the way up the coast. Boats can be hired at Larne, Carnlough and Cushendall for deep-sea expeditions to catch blockan, cod, conger, dab, herring, mackerel, plaice, pollack, skate, tope and whiting. Trout fishing is excellent throughout the area. Around Carrickfergus, where there are public reservoirs and waters at Woodburn Forest, Dorisland, Copeland and Lough Mourne and also at the Killylane, Bally...

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...

The River Ilen is a medium sized spate river about 21 miles (33kms.) long and flows through some of the most beautiful scenery in West Cork....

Welcome to an anglers paradise. Sligo boasts a maze of premium fishing rivers and lakes ranging in location from just outside Sligo City to the peripherals of the county. The waters of the county offer a vast array of fish from Cod to Conger, Tope to Turbot, Salmon, Pike, Trout and Coarse Fish....

The Suck Valley to the west of the county has excellent stocks of bream to 8Ibs and roach to 2Ibs, and don't be surprised to find a large hungry pike snapping at your bait. The River Shannon with its vast inlets and back water lies to the east. There are well developed sections of the lake in the Athlone-Kiltoom area where bags of Bream and Roach in excess of 100Ibs are common. Strokestown and Tulsk Lakelands have consistently produced specimen Rudd and Bream Hybrids. Bags of these speci...

Donegal has a spectacular rugged coastline which is ideal for fishing and sight-seeing.

Hiring "The Catlin Mara", from Saoire Mara is one way of availing of these activities.

The skipper Paul is a fully quailifed and experience boat man. He is also a native of Kincasslagh and has very good knowledge of all the best  fishing grounds and the senic areas.

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Welcome to an anglers paradise. Sligo boasts a maze of premium fishing rivers and lakes ranging in location from just outside Sligo City to the peripherals of the county. The waters of the county offer a vast array of fish from Cod to Conger, Tope to Turbot, Salmon, Pike, Trout and Coarse Fish....

The enthusiastic angler can enjoy Coarse, Trout and Pike Angling at its best on the River suck, its tributaries and its many well known lakes. Excellent stretches from Bream, rudd, Pike, Tench and Wild Brown Trout. East access to River Banks and Lake Shores....

The Foyle has four main tributaries; the Mourne, Derg, Strule and Finn, all fast flowing rocky rivers, and while the best time is mid-June to October there are sping fish to be caught from March to April. The upper reaches of these rivers and also the owenkillew and Glenelly in particular, provide classic spate river fishing from mid-July, similar to many waters in the west of Ireland and Scottish highlands. The nearby Roe and Faughan are also fine spate rivers....

The 23rd Annual Rosslare small boat festival is an open 'bring your own boat' fishing festival, which has been held at Rosslare for the past 23yrs, bringing together anglers from all parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Open to anyone the festival is a week of sea fishing sponsored by sea angler magazine and Diawa fishing tackle, and organised and run with the assistance of members of the Irish central, and eastern regional fisheries board.

This festival normally takes place...