You can do some of the best pike fishing in Ireland
When fishing for pike in Ireland you have the best of pike fishing lakes to choose from. Ireland has lochs or fishing lochs in every county, where you will find pike in most of them. At every Irish lake you will find beautiful scenery, whether it is a large or small lake, you are sure to find a lake to suit your needs. In most of the lakes in Ireland you will find pike, perch, roach and hybrids, then in the rest you will find rainbow and brown trout.
Great Lakes for Big Pike Fishing in Ireland
Best Pike Lakes in Galway: lough corb, lough mask, lough coolin, lough cutra, lough inagh, loughrea lake, mountbellew lake, ballynakill lough, lough derg, lough na hinch.
Cork: The Inniscarra Dam on the River Lee is full of big pike.
Cavan: Ramor Lake, Drumkeary Lake, Skeagh Lake, Castle Lake, Galloncurra Lake.
Longford – from Rooskey to Lanesborough has excellent pike stocks in its weedy waters.
Dublin: Blessington Lake has some big pike, but you need a permit.
Pikes eat everything they can get their hands on.
Pike eat everything in lakes and lakes, from trout, perch, and roach to smaller pike. Sometimes if you catch a pike you might see another pike come up and grab the one you are reeling in on your line. If you still have the pike you had on the line, you will see that it has a piece of it coming off the back or ends. This happened to me a few times fishing in Ireland. Pike are the largest predators in Irish lochs and lochs. They grow big in Ireland, growing to between 3lbs and 35lbs, with about 40lbs caught over the years. One of the best fishing spots in Ireland is Lough Acalla in Galway, I have caught over 30lbs of Pike year after year spinning and beating to death.
Ways to fish for pike
There are a number of ways you can catch pike, from reeling to spinning, fly fishing to dead baits. If you go trout fishing all the time, you are bound to come across a pike. There is no season for pike fishing, you can fish for pike all year round. In the winter months I would prefer dead bait, and the spin works quite well once you have gloves on hand. Pike move around lakes and lakes in winter in search of food because all the smaller fish hibernate. Spinning is great year round, there’s nothing like a 30 pound pike grabbing your rod when you don’t expect it. You get the trill of your life and a good fight. Pike love to catch fish that move through the water, it’s what they do best.