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 lakes in every county, which you will find pike in most of them. You’ll find beautiful scenery at every Irish lake, whether it’s a large lake or a small one, you’re bound to find a lake to suit your needs. In most of Ireland’s lochs you will find pike, perch, roach and hybrids, then in the rest you will find rainbow and brown trout.

Great lochs to fish for big pike in Ireland

Best Pike lakes in Galway: Lough corrib, 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.

Pike eat whatever 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 may see another pike come up and grab the one you are reeling in your line. If you still have the pike that you had on the line, you will see that a piece of it came off the back or the ends. This happened to me a few times fishing in Ireland. Pike are the largest predators in Irish lakes and lochs. They grow very large in Ireland, growing 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 flapping to death.

Ways to fish for pike

There are several ways you can catch pike, from reeling to spinning, fly fishing to dead baits. If you go fishing for trout all the time, you are sure to come across a pike. There is no season for pike fishing, you can catch them throughout the year. In the winter months I would prefer dead bait, and the spin works pretty well once you have gloves on your 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 a lifetime and a good fight. Pike love to catch fish that move through the water, it’s what they do best.