There are over 100 fishing charter boats at ports all the way from Louth, to Wexford across the south coast to Kerry and all the way up to Donegal. Many organise short charters or evening trips that are perfect for small groups or individual who want give angling a go. Most of our charter skipper are cheery types only too happy to advise and help a novice angler. The only catch here is that they are all based on the coast…

Find a charter boat: http://fishinginireland.info/tackleshops/index.htm

There are literally hundreds of fishing clubs all over this green and rainy island. No matter if you are interested in pike, coarse, trout, salmon or sea you’ll find a club to suit you. There are far too many to list here but what we can do is point you to the federations and associations that the clubs belong to. Get in touch with them and they’ll tell you where your nearest angling club is…

• Coarse angling clubs: http://www.ncffi.ie/about-us/find-a-club/
• Sea angling clubs: http://www.ifsa.ie/find-a-club/
• Pike angling clubs: http://www.angling-in-ireland.com/index.html
• Trout angling clubs: http://www.tafi.ie/
• More trout angling clubs: http://www.naraireland.com/
• Salmon angling clubs: http://fissta.com/

OK. Not really. But you could call into a stocked lake and say hello. Most of the stocked lakes have fishing gear for hire and fish willing to be caught. Just for you. There is a good distribution of stocked or “put and take” fisheries across Ireland. Some have rainbow trout, other coarse fish like bream, rudd, tench and carp. Other have a mix of the two (or five, but who’s counting?).

We have a good listing of the stocked lakes around Ireland here: http://fishinginireland.info/trout/putandtake.htm