Exclusive Fishing

Lough Cutra is a completely private fishery. As such the lake not suffered the fate of many of the country's other lakes with invasive species such as the Zebra Mussel and algal bloom taking hold. We intend to keep it this way. For this reason we do not allow any boats or vessels onto the lake that are not our own or that cannot be proven to have been out of any water for 28 days.

The other obvious advantage to being a private lake is that Lough Cutra has not been over exploited due to the strict controls on numbers of anglers allowed to fish. As well as this we do exercise a strict catch and release policy. There are many large and smaller pike, as well as some perch and rumours of one or two large trout.

The most common method is trolling and spinning with large lures from the boat, but dead-baiting from the shore is relatively successful too. We have recently attracted the interest of a number of guests fly fishing for pike who are suggesting that the lake is ideal for this method.

Thus we are fairly confident in saying that even the most inexperienced angler is bound to catch something!

Our exclusivity claim means that we will only let one boat on the lake at any one time, and no more than two anglers in a boat. We provide the boat and engine, lifejackets (if necessary), maps, etc. Limited tackle can be rented too, as well as a fishfinder.