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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:

  1. a coarse rod licence
  2. a coarse angling permit 

Licence and permit prices

  • Coarse rod licence prices from DAERA

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.

  • Coarse angling permit prices from DAERA

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

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Angling rules

  • Angling code of conduct
  • Angling methods
  • Angling regulations (rules)
  • Angling rod licence and permit regulations (rules)
  • Catch and release fishing guidelines
  • Conditions of sale for fishing licences and permits
  • Fish size and catch limits
  • Fish these waters with a coarse rod licence
  • Game and coarse fishing seasons

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