
ESTABLISHMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES IRELAND - SEE
PRESS RELEASE DATED JULY 1st, 2010
OPEN SEASON TROUT:
March 1st - September 30th.
OPEN SALMON SEASON: Meelick Salmon fishery is
closed in 2010.
CONSERVATION OF SALMON AND SEA TROUT
BYE LAW NO. C.S. 304, 2009 (Closed Rivers).
This
Bye-law prohibits the taking or attempting
to take by rod and line salmon and sea trout
over 40 cm in the rivers specified in the Bye-law.
SPECIES: Salmon and Wild Brown
Trout averaging 8ozs to 2lbs.
SIZE LIMIT TROUT: 8 inches River
Shannon Ref: Bye Law No: 817, 2007
DAILY BAG LIMIT TROUT: Not Applicable.
ANGLING METHODS: Trout - all legal methods
apply.
ACCESS: Access is via road on the Co
Offaly bank near Lusmagh outside Banagher and the Co Galway bank near Eyrecourt.
FACILITIES: Open bank fishing into fast riffled
waters and pools, a boat offers a distinct advantage to access many
hidden waters inaccessible by land
FISHERY DESCRIPTION: Meelick is a well known
Salmon Fishery, which in recent years was closed to Salmon Angling as it
did not reach its conservation limit. The fishery remains closed to
Salmon fishing to date, 2010.
TROUT FISHING CO OFFALY BANK: Trout fishing can
be good with dry fly in the summer months as the Croneen (lake trout
start to migrate) and also for local native stock. Native trout are
about 8 to 12ozs with larger specimens possible to about 2lbs.
Generally anglers wade down the pools in chest waders using dry sedges
and wet flies, various olives. Due care should be exercised while
wading these or any local waters.
TROUT FISHING CO GALWAY BANK: Fast runs at
the upstream side of Meelick church and the far bank if you have a boat
to access the bank below the weir at what's called locally as the Queens
gap are good trout waters, producing trout averaging 8 to 12ozs
generally with fish to 2lbs possible. Wet flies, Olives and sedges
during the summer will work.
Please Observe Our Country Code and Fisheries
Laws.
Anglers are requested to always
observe our country code
Seek permission
from landowners before crossing private lands or property
Do not park cars in
fields except where permission is granted and it is safe to do so.
Leave no litter
Keep our
countryside clean
Normal access is
over footbridges and stiles or where public access is provided.
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