Fishing near Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

County Monaghan sits on the Ulster drumlin belt, its landscape pocked with small loughs and threaded by rivers including the Blackwater, which runs within a kilometre of the town. The area is best known for coarse fishing — pike, bream, roach, tench and hybrids — across a cluster of accessible lakes north and south of Monaghan town, with Glaslough (Lough Muckno area) drawing pike anglers from across Ireland.

Top waters to fish near Monaghan

Carlingford Lough

Blackwater [Kells]

Co. Cavan, Co. Meath

Species & education

Learn what type of fish are in Monaghan, Co. Monaghan and what's needed to catch them.

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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

European Flounder

Platichthys flesus

Black Seabream

Spondyliosoma cantharus

European Anchovy

Engraulis encrasicolus

Thornback Ray

Raja clavata

Whiting

Merlangius merlangus

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