The great oceanic trout lakes of the west of Ireland, with their rich limestone feeding and plump specimen fish, have no counterpart in continental Europe: the summers there simply aren’t windy or cool enough. Waves that rock the anglers’ boats on Corrib, Mask, Derg or Erne keep the water mixed and full of oxygen from top to bottom. Water temperature rarely reaches 20 degrees, the point at which trout and salmon begin to feel uncomfortable.
Irish Times, 14/09/13. Read the full article ‘Another Life: Jellyfish join the ecological anarchists of the western lakes‘.