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Connacht - Lough Mask
Lough Mask
Co. Mayo
 Lough Mask is a large limestone lough of 22000 acres in the west of Ireland. It has an excellent stock of wild brown trout averaging over 1lb, with many over 3lb. Every year, many specimen trout weighing over 10lb are taken on the troll. Although primarily a game fishery , it also holds pike and perch.
Nearest towns are Castlebar, Claremorris, Ballinrobe and Westport. Villages near the lake include Clonbur, Cong, Cross, Finny, Partry, and Tourmakeady. The Atlantic coast, at Westport, is just 12 miles away. Knock airport is 25 miles, Shannon Airport 80 miles and Galway airport 30 miles.
Lough Mask is renowned for its high quality wet-fly fishing, which extends for most of the season. Mayfly dapping is productive in taking trout above average weight. Dapping the daddy-long-legs or grasshopper can be very successful from July onwards.
Duckfly hatches are best during the month of April. Also from April onwards, hatches of the Large Lake Olive can be found in many bays, and hatches of Sooty and Golden Olives are widespread over the season.
Under normal conditions, the Mayfly season is best from May 20th to June 12th, with intermittent hatches occurring in later months. During these months also and again in later months hatches of Chironomids occur in some bays where very good angling is often experienced. June, July and August provide good angling to wetflies, or by dapping the natural daddylonglegs and/or grasshopper.
Dry-fly fishing to Sedge patterns can take excellent bags when fished in late evenings. A variety of Sedge flies begin to hatch from mid-May onwards, these make up a big percentage of the lough's fly life. Occasionally, when falls of Red or Black Ant are heavy on the water in July and August, the trout feed extensively on them. Many other types of terrestrial flies appear on the lough from time to time and can prove very attractive to trout.
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