Stoneflies
Caddisflies
Gammarids
A short, steep Ox Mountains spate river of some 12 miles, draining Lough Easky high on the Sligo/Mayo border, through bogland and then pasture, under the N59 at Workhouse Bridge and out to the sea at Easky village. Primarily a salmon river with a decent run of sea trout from June — grilse arrive from early June and the best of the fishing runs June to September on suitable water. Lough Easky itself holds only small brown trout. Below the village bridge, 700m of free town water runs down to the sea; upstream, the private Fortland Fishery covers over 6km of the Fortland Estate woodlands with more than twenty pools, limited to 12 rods a day. For 2026 this is a catch-and-release fishery under the Wild Salmon & Sea Trout Tagging Scheme — all salmon and grilse must be returned.
EPA river-invertebrate monitoring on the Easkey confirms mayflies, stoneflies, caddis, chironomids and other aquatic diptera, and freshwater crustaceans are present across its monitored reaches - food-presence evidence only, not a record of when or how strongly any of them hatch.
- Mixed