Fishing near Bailieborough, Co. Cavan

Bailieborough sits in east Cavan, a county long associated with coarse angling across its network of lakes and rivers. The town itself is surrounded by a cluster of productive loughs — Bailieborough Lough (Town Lake), Castle Lake, Mullagh Lough, Galbolie Lough, Parkers Lake, and Lough Skeagh — all part of the Boyne system and all within a few kilometres. Pike, bream, roach, perch, and tench are the mainstay species, drawing coarse anglers from across Ireland and further afield.

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Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

European Eel

Anguilla anguilla

Common Gudgeon

Gobio gobio

Eurasian Minnow

Phoxinus phoxinus

European Perch

Perca fluviatilis

Northern Pike

Esox lucius

Common Roach

Rutilus rutilus

Atlantic Salmon

Salmo salar

Lesser Spotted Dogfish

Scyliorhinus canicula

Shortfin Mako

Isurus oxyrinchus

Black Seabream

Spondyliosoma cantharus

European Anchovy

Engraulis encrasicolus

Thornback Ray

Raja clavata

Whiting

Merlangius merlangus

Common Bream

Abramis brama

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