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Lough Gill and Bonet River

Season

The open season for salmon and seatrout is from 1 January to 30 September. A river based quota will operate of the Gill and Bonet River and Brown GILL Tags (see below for details) are required in addition to the blue gilltags.

Lough gill

Gill is a large lough, nearly 6½ miles long from east to west and 2½ miles wide at its widest point. It lies about 3 miles east of Sligo and the R286 Dromahair-Sligo road runs close by the shore on the northern end and the R287 on the southern side. There is public access and parking at Inisfree, Sriff Bay, Aughamore and Hazelwood Bay. This lough holds brown trout and salmon. It gets a big run of spring salmon and anglers are out from opening day. Few loughs have a reputation for having salmon as the predominant angling species and this is one of them. Most of the fishing is done by trolling. February and March are regarded as good months and so also is May, but after that the salmon fishing is over for the season.

Brown tags - Conservation measures 2012

In order to facilitate the recovery of stocks, the number of salmon (including sea trout over 40cm) that can be legally taken from the Garravogue River, Lough Gill and Bonet River system are strictly limited by law for 2012. All salmon and sea trout over 40cm taken from the above waters must be tagged on landing with both a brown and blue gill tag.

Catch and Release

All anglers fishing the above waters must fish catch and release if they are not in possession of a brown gill tag specific to the Garravogue River, Lough Gill and Bonet River system.  Catch and release means carefully handling any fish caught and immediately returning the fish alive to the water.

The use of worms as bait or any fish hooks, other than single barbless hooks, in angling for salmon on the Garravogue River, Lough Gill and Bonet River system is strictly prohibited unless the angler is in possession of an appropriate brown tag. The above will be strictly enforced and anglers found in contravention of the tagging regulations will be liable to prosecution.

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