Fishing near Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry
Ballybunion sits on the north Kerry Atlantic coast, where the Cashen Estuary meets open surf beaches. The area is best known for shore fishing — bass and flounder from the beach, with dogfish and dab from nearby strands — and the surrounding rivers and lakes hold salmon and trout.
Top waters to fish near Ballybunnion
Doonah 27
Lough Leane
Shannon Estuary
Brick
Galey
Mouth of the Shannon (HAs 23;27)
Feale
Carrowmore South
Lower Shannon Estuary
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Blackwater [Munster]
Species & education
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Arctic Char
Salvelinus alpinus
Common Bream
Abramis brama
Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
Tench
Tinca tinca
European Eel
Anguilla anguilla
European Perch
Perca fluviatilis
European Flounder
Platichthys flesus
Killarney Shad
Eurasian Minnow
Phoxinus phoxinus
Rudd
Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Atlantic Salmon
Salmo salar
Angler
Lophius piscatorius
Atlantic Herring
Clupea harengus
Atlantic Horse Mackerel
Trachurus trachurus
Atlantic Mackerel
Scomber scombrus
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