Fish Ireland's Shannon
Region
Plan Your own
FISHING HOLIDAY ONLINE - It's all here!
This resource is designed to facilitate both domestic
and tourist anglers in planning a complete fishing trip to the region.
Here's what we offer
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WHERE TO FISH -
Extensive fishing guides and location maps are featured, covering Game
(Salmon/Trout), Coarse/Pike and Sea Fishing, which include full
description of our fisheries, regulations, species, best times to
fish, specimen fish awards, fishing advice, wheelchair access, fishing
fees etc.
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WHERE TO STAY
- You can browse, check availability and book from a wide
range of locally advertised accommodation providers, many of whom are
specialist operators directly geared to cater for angling tourists
with in-house facilities and services. You can access via our
Accommodation Finder facility with local listings linked in our
fisheries guides as you browse.
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WHO TO CONTACT
- While planning your fishing trip you may require services such as
boat hire, bait delivery, tackle shops, sea angling charters, a
guiding service etc. You will find all these advertised online with
contact particulars, accessible via our Services Finder Facility and
also via our local fisheries guides.
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WHO'S CATCHING
WHAT AND WHERE - A weekly angling reports and fisheries news
service is a major feature of our website, which will help you keep up
to date on what's happening around the region. All past fishing
reports are archived for your reference. We publish Press Releases and
our fisheries news section presents topics of regional and national
interest.
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GO
SHOPPING - Amongst other products on offer in our Online
Shopping Section, anglers can purchase a Salmon/Seatrout Fishing
Licence or a local Fishing Permit (ticket) required for trout, coarse
and pike fishing on the Board's
MIDLAND FISHERIES GROUP OF WATERS
Explore The
Shannon Fisheries Region
The River Shannon is a vast waterway with a
catchment area of over 7000 sq miles, consisting of over 1,600 miles of
river, 40,000 hectares of still water (lakes), all offering
a huge diversity of angling potential for the angler. This is a complete
fisheries information resource for
domestic and overseas tourist anglers interested in fishing or
planning a fishing trip or holiday to the Shannon Region.
Map Guides
- Quick access to Fishing Locations & Guides
The guides cover Game (Salmon & Trout), Coarse &
Pike and Sea fishing. Featured also is a weekly angling reports and
news service during peak season for Game, Coarse and Pike anglers. Many
anglers contribute to these reports which adds significant value and
makes for interesting reading. There is lots of supplementary
information available also including info on Wheelchair
access points for the physically disabled angler, a real time
Weather Check, Specimen Fish Awards, an Advice Centre for visiting
anglers and lots more.
Coarse angling tends be organised
around 'centres' usually towns and villages, where experienced caterers specialise in looking
after visitors. We describe fishing on this extensive guide around
such centres
and provide much additional and supplementary information which
include Specimen Fish Awards, Angling Advice, Coarse Fish
Species found in Ireland and angling notes etc. The guide describes
hundreds of known and 'not so well known' fishing hotspots For more info
CHOOSE THIS GUIDE
This fishing guide describes the most important Salmon and Trout
fishing waters in the Shannon Fisheries Region. Here you can locate such
information as fishing regulations, close season, species, fishing
fees, access points, angling notes, country code etc on a fishery by fishery
basis. The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board directly manage several river and
lake fisheries where a fishing
FISHING PERMIT APPLIES .
The fishing guide can be accessed via our
GAME ANGLING GUIDE MAP
The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board coastal
boundaries extends from Hags Head on the Co Clare Coast, and includes all
of the Shannon Estuary to Limerick on the north side of the river, to Kerry head
on the south side of he river.
SEE MAP The
region's scenic and rugged coastline offers exceptional shore angling.
There are 40 shore angling marks where excellent Ballan Wrasse can be taken as well as
Mackerel, Pollack, Dogfish, Bull Huss, Ling and Conger. There are many piers
along our coastline with miles of sandy beaches to tempt you. Good sign
posting to the popular angling marks, will assist locating fishing spots.
CHOOSE THIS GUIDE
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