county galway coarse angling

The waters give good roach fishing over most of the year, but usually best from April to December. Roach to over 1Ib and hybrids to 3Ib are common. Bream to over 9Ib have been caught in Ballyquirke Lake. Tench are also present in most of the lakes but are often hard to locate because of the size of the waters. Ballindooley Lough, a few miles out the Headford Road from Galway City, is specially stocked with quality tench and the lake has a number good fishing stands that can be reached from the Headford Road. Lough Aclaureen, a few miles from Tuam, is a small roach, tench and bream water of about 14 acres and it has excellent fishing stands. The lake gives good fishing for roach and bream from April to early winter. Access is from the Tuam/Kilmaine Road as shown on signposts. Summerville Lake, beside Moylough, Co Galway has an excellent stock of rudd, some perch and pike. The roadway runs to its western shore, beside the Tuam/Moylough/Glenamaddy junction. The River Suck, Ballinasloe, in the Shannon Fisheries Region, is deep and slow and a productive coarse fishing river.