Fish these waters with a coarse rod licence
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) coarse rod licence holders can fish the following DAERA coarse waters for freshwater fish species (except salmon, brown trout and rainbow trout) by rod and line or hand line.
Documents you need
To fish legally in coarse waters which are listed below, you'll need to buy:
- a coarse rod licence
- a coarse angling permit
Licence and permit prices
Permit prices: For Public Angling Estate (PAE) waters listed below this will be a DAERA Coarse Permit. For waters outside the PAE this will be the fishery owner permit or day ticket.
Buy licence/ permit
- Buy rod licences and permits including River Bush day tickets online - you can buy a rod licence and permit together by choosing 'combined licence and permit'
- Customers can still buy their rod licence, permit or day tickets from a DAERA authorised distributor.
Coarse rod licence Public Angling Estate waters
County Antrim
- Broadwater Canal
- Movangher Canal
- Portna Canal
- Toome Canal
- River Lagan from Stranmillis Weir to 150 metres downstream of Red Bridge
County Armagh
- Craigavon City Park Lakes South Lake
- Loughgall Lake
- Lough Clay
- River Bann between Knock Bridge and Lough Neagh
County Down
- River Quoile from the railway cutting near Inch Abbey to the new barrage gates and the Quoile Basin between the Old Lock Gates and the new Drainage Gates
- Lough Money
County Fermanagh
Loughs
- all of Upper Lough Erne and in that part of Lower Lough Erne to the east of an imaginary line running from the nearest point on the shore of Boa Island in the townland of Pollaginnive to Hare Island and from that point on Hare Island to the most easterly point on Bess Island and to the most easterly point of Tully Point in the townland of Tully
- Lower Lough Erne, provided the angling is from the shore and all island shores
- Lough Scolban
Rivers
- Colebrooke River between Ballindarragh Bridge and where the Colebrooke River flows into Upper Lough Erne
County Tyrone
- Loughs Creeve, Enagh, Macronan,
- White Lough
Coarse rod licence private waters
You may need a day ticket / permit from the fishery owner.
County Antrim
- Duncan’s Dam
- Lagan Canal
- Loughs' Beg, Neagh, Portmore
- unnamed lake known as Willis’s Lake off the Upper Malone Road
- Victoria Park Lake
- Waterworks Reservoir
County Armagh
- Derryadd
- Derrylileagh
- Doogary
- Edenderry
- Enagh
- Gall
- Gentle Owens
- Gibsons
- Gilly
- Gullion
- Kiltirbid
- Kiltybane
- Lagan Canal and the Newry Canal
- Lisleitrim
- Loughs Camlough and Carnagh
- Lurgan Park Lake
- Marlacoo
- Mullaghmore
- Patrick
- River Blackwater between Blackwatertown Bridge and Lough Neagh
- Ross and Shark
County Down
- Loughs Aghery, Ballyherly, Ballymartin, Ballyroney, Ballywillin, Begney, Bow, Carrigullion, Clea, Dairy, Glastry, Henney, Heron, Hunshigo, Jericho, Long, McAuleys, Mann, Monlough, Montgomery's
- Newry Canal
- Pollramer Lake
- Seaforde
- Shark and Tullynagee
- the Broadwater (Lagan Canal)
County Fermanagh
Loughs
All loughs draining into Upper and Lower Lough Erne, except the following for which a game fishing rod licence is needed:
- Loughs Achork, Coolyermer, Coole (Castlecoole), Corranny, Corry, Drumcose, Eshcleagh, Eyes, Glencreawan, Keenaghan, Meenameen, Navar, Parkhill, and White Lough (Irvinestown)
Rivers
- Arney River from the old Arney Bridge to where the Arney River flows into Upper Lough Erne
- Sillees River
- Swanlinbar River from Thompson’s Bridge to Upper Lough Erne
- Woodford River
County Tyrone
- Loughs Augher, Ballynakilly, Ballysaggart, Black, Carrick, Cranslough, Friary, Fymore, Legane, Mullaghmore, Mullygruen, Nacrilly, Screeby, Tullygiven and Wood
- Lough Neagh
- River Blackwater between Blackwatertown Bridge