EEA Waterbase: good ecological status at CLYDAGH CASTLEBAR010 (invertebrate, phytobenthos monitoring), 7.2km away. Data from 2023.

Burrishoole

Erriff

Migratory lough near Newport, Mayo where salmon and sea trout run from the tidal Newport river. Good boat fishing for salmon from June — watch the water and fish the likely lies. Sea trout in the shallows at dusk and after dark. A productive system when fish are moving through. For 2026 this is a catch-and-release fishery under the Wild Salmon & Sea Trout Tagging Scheme — all salmon and grilse must be returned.

Lough Beltra / Newport

Lough Beltra lies in wild country five miles north-east of Newport in Mayo, two miles by one of mountain-ringed water beneath the Nephin Beg range. It is one of Ireland's loveliest and most renowned spring-salmon loughs — drawing a large run of fish through March, April and May, salmon typically in the eight-to-ten-pound class, with a smaller run of grilse and sea trout from June. All its fish are entirely wild. The water is soft and peat-tinged off the surrounding bog and mountain, the lough fed and drained by the Newport river system. The character is classic western drift-fishing water: a big, open, often wind-ruffled lough fished from the boat over rocky shoals and along the productive shoreline lies. Wading has little role here — this is boat water, read by the wave, the drift and the known holding ground, an outboard the only practical way about it.