Fishing

Teach Bán B&B is situated near Ballinrobe, an area famous for its Wild Brown Trout. Loughs Carra and Mask are nearby and your hosts can arrange local ghillies, boats etc, if required.

The trout season normally extends from March to the end of September

Of course as fishing is free in the area you may simply want to try the local streams or lakeshores at your leisure.

May and June are particularly busy months in South Mayo as this is the peak Mayfly season. Early May can be the best time to fish the Mayfly on Lough Carra whereas Lough Mask performs better towards the end of May and Lough Corrib comes good early in June.

Lough Mask hosts the World Wet Fly competition during the Irish August bank holiday, the first full weekend in August.

The best flies for the Mask are the Connemara Black, Green Peter, Invecta and Murragh. The Carra is best fished with a Bumble or Golden Olive and is a renowned Dry fly lake. The artificial Mayfly is good on all these lakes at the right time but if you are a Dapper then you must catch the real thing first, which is an adventure in itself.

Lough Conn and the Moy are about 45 minutes away are renowned for salmon and sea trout angling which require a licence but at very reasonable cost. Teach Bán can arrange suitable ghillies, boats etc for you if required on the Moy.

During the winter months the lakes can still be fished as they contain both pike and perch. All local lakes and rivers can be fished free throughout the year for pike and perch.

The sea angler is a mere 15 miles from Westport and Newport is about 25 miles, these ports are excellent centres for deep-sea angling and for salmon and sea trout fishing in the West of Ireland.

The coarse fisherman has lots of access to free fishing for pike and perch locally and other species are just a short drive away.