lakes fermanagh

Cruiser hire companies dotted around the shores of Upper and Lower Lough Erne welcome complete novices and give free lessons on how to handle boats....

Cruiser hire companies dotted around the shores of Upper and Lower Lough Erne welcome complete novices and give free lessons on how to handle boats....

Cruiser hire companies dotted around the shores of Upper and Lower Lough Erne welcome complete novices and give free lessons on how to handle boats....

Cruiser hire companies dotted around the shores of Upper and Lower Lough Erne welcome complete novices and give free lessons on how to handle boats....

Cruiser hire companies dotted around the shores of Upper and Lower Lough Erne welcome complete novices and give free lessons on how to handle boats....

As the Sillees River meanders its way towards Lower Lough Erne it passes through Ross Lough, settled in a hollow amongst drumlins. Ross Lough has a swamp and fen shoreline typical of County Fermanagh. The lake lowering after the Sillees drainage scheme has increased its variety of habitats - there is open water, swamp, fen and wet meadow. A small wooded crannog can be reached in abnormally dry periods only. The area is completley flooded in the winter, the only trees withstanding these wet co...

The once vast peat bogs on the hills to the south of Lower Lough Erne have been extensively planted with conifers. Now only a few small patches remain; each is a significant example of a now rare habitat. Although still recovering from the fires in the mid 1970's Lough Naman bog is relativley undisturbed. The bog forms a dome in a larger expanse of blanket bog. Bog Cotton and sedges grow on mossy hummocks where tiny sundews catch insects on their leaves covered in sticky droplets. The insects...

Lough Erne is a big lough, some 37,800 acres, with the best trout fishing area in the lower lough. The mayfly appears about mid-May and lasts until mid-June. The early season fishing in late March up to the mayfly and again in September can also be very good....

This is a small lough on the Fermanagh - Donegal border. It is approached off the B136 Belleek-Pettigo road. Take the by road to the north 2 miles west of Pettigo and one and a half miles along that road there is a forest road to the lough with a car park by the shore. The trout here average a half lb and rise freely. An average catch should produce 3-4 trout and it is possible to get fish hee up to about one and three quarters lbs. It can be fished all round and wading is possible, but be caref...

This is another small lough to the west of Lough Corry in Lisnaskea Forest. It holds a very good stock of brown trout up to a half lb and usually fishes best in the evening. There are forest roads all around it and it is fishable from the bankand stands. Permission required....