Fishing near Belfast, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland puts Belfast inside Newry Mourne and Down. Some 348,005 people call it home. Start close and work out: Portmore Lough some 14 miles, Lough Neagh some 20 miles to the west, Lough Cowey some 20 miles, Lough Island Reavy some 25 miles to the south with Clay Lake some 41 miles. On Lough Island Reavy the margins hold more than the middle, so start tight and stay tight. What you get here is lake fishing. Stony ground fishes better than mud in the cold. A cold snap may close them briefly. Treat the whole of winter as open water and you will not go wrong. Portmore Lough is the near option, about 378 acres in size. County records name Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout among the fish present. Access is not the same on all of these. Weekday evenings are the quietest time on most of these. Rules here are Northern Ireland rules, whatever the water looks like....