Terrestrial Beetles

EEA Waterbase: moderate ecological status at SCREEB010 (invertebrate, phytobenthos monitoring), 2.3km away. Data from 2023.

Erriff

Burrishoole

Screebe and Gowla are exclusive Connemara migratory loughs. Brown trout exist on the loughs but the fishery is booked for sea trout and salmon. Treat any brown-trout day as a bonus on a sea-trout system.

Exclusive Connemara migratory fishery — Screebe and Gowla are interconnected lake systems draining to the coast through a brief tidal river. Sea trout and salmon from June. A private fishery with limited rods and high reputation. Traditional Connemara fishing on a small-water system. For 2026 this is a catch-and-release fishery under the Wild Salmon & Sea Trout Tagging Scheme — all salmon and grilse must be returned.

Screebe / Gowla

The Screebe fishery lies at the head of Camus Bay, six miles south of Maam Cross in south Connemara — an interconnected series of small loughs and a short tidal river draining the granite-and-bog uplands to the sea. It is exclusive, private water of high reputation, the loughs strung together and falling through a brief river to the saltwater of the bay. Like all this country the water is acidic and dark, soft and peat-stained off blanket bog over hard granite bedrock. Screebe is famous for its sea trout and salmon, the fish running up off the tide from June, with wild brown trout — and pike in the system — through the season. The character is low, rocky, wind-swept lough-and-river country: shallow granite shoals, peat-fringed bays and a short, lively connecting river. This is drift-and-bank fishing read by the wave; the river wades steadily on firm granite rock.