Fishing near Listowel, Co. Kerry

Listowel sits on the River Feale in north County Kerry, and it is the Feale that defines fishing in this part of Ireland. One of the country's premier spate salmon and sea trout rivers, the Feale flows 75 km from the Cork uplands through Abbeyfeale and Listowel before reaching the sea south of Ballybunion. Its tributaries — the Galey, Smearlagh, Brick and others — add well over 160 km of fishable water to the system, drawing anglers from across Ireland and beyond.

Top waters to fish near Listowel

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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