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Fishing Throughout Tipperary
Ireland is recognised as being the outstanding angling destination in Europe. The waters in and around Ireland offer a variety of coarse fishing, sea fishing, pike fishing, trout fly fishing and salmon and sea trout fishing. The Central Fisheries Board provides useful information regarding research, protection and publications concerned with Irish fishing.
From the chalk stream of the River Suir to the edges of the powerful Lough Derg Tipperary offers a veritable cornucopia of fishing opportunities to both the seasoned and novice angler. River Suir Rising in the Devils Bit Mountains of North Tipperary and flowing through the limestone country of South Tipperary and North Waterford the Suir is renowned as a dry-fly fishery with excellent access. The physical characteristics of the river provide an ideal habitat for salmon and trout that prosper because of the ideal nature of the habitat, the absence of any serious predators and a lack of competition for food.
Joining the Suir 1½ kms south east of Thurles the Drish is a clear, slow flowing lowland stream. Its middle and lower sections hold excellent stocks of trout. The best fishing periods are from April to mid-June. Downstream from the Drish Bridge usually remains fishable throughout the season, providing dry fly fishing on summer evenings. Little Brosna River Rising around Roscrea in North Tipperary , the Little Brosna and its tributaries the Camcor and the Bunow Rivers flows in a north westerly direction past the town of Birr to join the River Shannon at Meelick. Noted as a brown trout fishery it also boasts good stocks of salmon in the summertime in its lower reaches. Access to the Little Brosna is good, mainly from the bridges, and the banks are well serviced with stiles and footbridges. Camcor River Rising in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and joining the Little Brosna at Birr, this spate river has small indigenous trout stocks. From mid-June it gets a run of large lake trout from Lough Derg. They are usuallly fished for at night in the stretch between Syngefield Bridge and the Ked Bridge . Access to the Camcor is good, mainly from the bridges, and the banks are well serviced with stiles and footbridges. Nenagh River Rising in the hills on the eastern slopes of the Silvermines Mountains and flowing into Lough Derg at Dromineer, the River Nenagh hold excellent stocks of brown trout and a small run of spring salmon. An under-fished river except in the immediate vicinity of bridges and close to the town of Nenagh . Its banks are high, difficult and overgrown with wading is essential in many areas. Shannon's Lough Derg Lough Derg is the largest lake on the River Shannon. Its 13,000 hectares stretch 35 km from Portumna at its northern tip to Killaloe/Ballina at the most southerly point, and 12 km at its widest point, from Scarriff on the western shore to Youghal Bay on the eastern side. A remarkable inhabitant of Lough Derg is the 'Croneen' trout - a migratory brown trout that breeds in its tributaries in north Tipperary and south Offaly. This unusual brown trout has characteristics similar to sea trout in behaviour. Shoals of big bream, tench, roach and perch roam its depths and these can be successfully fished from an anchored boat alongside weedbeds.
The Heritage, 1 The Square, Cahir, Co. Tipperary Tel: 052 42730 CASALE 200 LTD, 4 Bank place, Cashel, Co TipperaryTel 062 63106 Kavanagh's Sports Shop, Westgate, Clonmel, Co Tipperary . Tel: 052 21279
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