You can catch some of the best pike in Ireland

When fishing for pike in Ireland, you have the best pike fishing lakes to choose from. Ireland has lakes or fishing ponds in every county, you will find pike in most of them. In every Irish lake you will find beautiful landscapes, whether it is a large lake or a small one, you will surely find a lake for you. In most of Ireland’s lakes you will find pike, perch, cockroach and hybrids, then in the rest of them you will find rainbow and brown trout.

Great lakes to catch big pike in Ireland

Best Pike lakes in galway: lough corrib, lough mask, lough coolin, lough cutra, lough inagh, loughrea lake, mountbellew lake, ballynakill lough, lough derg, lough na hinch.

Cork: The Inniscarra Dam on the River Lee is full of big pike.

Cavan: Ramor Lake, Drumkeary Lake, Skeagh Lake, Castle Lake, Galloncurra Lake.

Longford – Rooskey to Lanesborough has excellent pike populations in its scrubby waters.

Dublin: Lake Blessington has a large pike, but you need a permit.

The pike eats as much as it can.

Pike eat everything in Lakes and Loughs, from trout, perch and roaches, and smaller pike. Sometimes if you catch a pike, you may see another pike come up and grab the one you are winding on your line. If you still get the pike you had on your line, you will see a chunk come off the back or fins. This happened to me a few times when fishing in Ireland. Pike are the biggest predators in Irish lakes and lakes. They grow huge in Ireland, growing between 3lbs and 35lbs, and about 40lbs are caught over the years. One of the best places to fish in Ireland is Lough Acalla in Galway, I have caught pike over 30 pounds there year after year spinning and dying dead.

Ways to catch pike

There are various ways to catch pike, from wobble to spin, from fly fishing to dead bait. If you are going to hunt for trout all the time, you are sure to come across a pike. There is no season for fishing for pike, you can fish all year round. In the winter months I would prefer the dead bait, and the twist works quite well once you have gloves in hand. Pikes move around lakes and lakes in the winter in search of food because all the smaller fish hibernate. Spinning is great year round, there’s nothing like a 30 pound pike grabbing your rod when you’re not expecting it. You get the trill of your life and a good fight. Pike love to catch fish moving through the water, it is what they do best.