Fishing near Arklow, Co. Wicklow

Arklow sits at the mouth of the Avoca river on the Wicklow coast and is one of Leinster's most productive shore angling towns — recognised internationally when it hosted the Junior World Shore Angling Championships. The beaches, piers and estuary around the town hold bass, smoothhound, flounder, mullet and more, while the wider Wicklow coast adds ray, tope, spurdog and wreck species for those heading offshore.