angling ireland

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

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 Shannon Region is dominated by water. An Atlantic Ocean coastline and the profusion of lakes, rivers and streams in the Region make it a veritable paradise for anglers....

This is another artificial sea water lough on the shores of Lough Swilly, where the level is controlled by floodgate. It holds occassional salmon and sea trout and fishes best in July. It can be fished from the shore and July is the best month for sea trout. Permission...

4 day Deep Sea Fishing Festival, fished on a conservation basis. All fish weighed and returned to the sea. A lot of repeat business from 9 countries which includes the UK, Wales, Holland, Belgium and Scotland....

This is a small lough beside Creeslough village. It used to hold an excellent stock of brown trout averaging 10 oz, with fish to 2km, but stocks have been greatly depleted in recent years by greedy and uncaring anglers. If you do catch fish, I suggest you return them safely to the water to conserve stocks. Useful fly patterns are Golden Olive, Wicham's Fancy, Black Pennell, Butcher and Connemara Black. Bank fishing only and about 25 per cent of the shoreline is fishable. Permission....

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Lough Neagh has been described as a huge fish factory. It is the biggest lake in the British Isles, and it covers 153 square miles (400 km). Its uncanny similarity in size and shape to the Isle of Man gave rise to the legend that the mythical giant Fiann McCool scooped out a huge lump of earth and threw it into the Irish Sea - the lump of earth formed the Isle of Man, and the hole filled with water became Lough Neagh.

For the tout angler its main interest is the dollaghan, a unique...

Fishing available: Salmon and Brown Trout. The River Derry rises near Knockananna village (7 miles north of Tinahely) and flows southwards through Tinahely, Shillelagh and Clonegal to meet the River Slaney near Kildavin. It holds occasional salmon and small brown trout and is an important spawning and nursery river for the River Slaney salmon. The controlling club is the Derry and District Angling Club. The Derry Water river is a separate tributary which rises near Tinahely and flows north-eastw...

Donegal's coastline is perferct for angling and sight-seeing. Hiring a chatered boat is the best way of availing of these activities.

An Duanai Mara Chaters is a company that offers this facility. The boat departs three habours in the region; Teelin pier, Creevy Habour and Killybegs Harbour.

The skipper of the boat is Smith Campbell, whom has many years of experience of charter vessles. He has a very good knowledge of the waters, and knows all the p...