Lough Muck is the lower of the two loughs of the Culfin fishery in north Connemara, six miles west of Leenane, taking the outflow of Lough Fee above it and passing its own water down the short Culfin River to the sea. It sits in the same hard granite-and-quartzite country beneath the Twelve Bens, the water clear, soft and acidic off mountain and blanket bog, the Leenane road running close along its shore. Muck offers salmon, sea trout and a good stock of small wild brown trout, the migratory fish running up the Culfin off the tide on the summer water. The character is a small, exposed, mountain-fringed Connemara lough — rocky shoals, a stony shore and peat-stained bays open to the wind. This is boat-and-bank fishing read by the wave and the shoreline lies; the connecting river wades steadily on firm granite rock and gravel.

Wading: Exposed, wind open shore