Fishing

Private Fishing Rights - Every house in Riverbank comes with the rights to the Fishing on the Easkey River (Subject to a license being purchased from the Fisheries Board). Only residents of Riverbank can fish from the banks of the River on the Estate.

The Easkey River gets special mention as a place to fish that is hauntingly beautiful in Peter O Reilly’s superb book Rivers of Ireland: A Flyfisher's Guide http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811714330/ref%3Dase%5Ffishirelandcom09/002-3248807-7634401

The region around Easkey (Mayo to the south and Sligo to the north) is, undoubtedly, one of Europe's top angling destinations and is considered by many as a game angler’s paradise. The river

The area also offers top class sea angling and has some limited coarse fishing. The north western region is dominated by the River Moy which produces about 6,000 salmon to the rod annually.

The North Western Regional Fisheries Board is the statutory body responsible for inland fisheries and sea angling in Ireland’s north western fisheries region – ie the Sligo and Mayo region. The Board is also responsible for protection of mollusc fisheries in its area of jurisdiction. The region extends from Pigeon Point, Clew Bay, Co. Mayo, to Mullaghmore Head, Co. Sligo and includes the catchment areas of all rivers and lakes which flow into the sea between those two points as well as the sea area from coast to baselines, and 12 miles from baselines out to sea, between the two points.

The North Western Regional Fisheries Board website is a good source of information and can be found at ...

http://www.northwestfisheries.ie/

The Western Regional Fisheries Board website is a good source of information for those who wish to travel a little further and can be found at ...

http://www.wrfb.ie/

The Central Fisheries Board website

http://www.cfb.ie/

For fishing on the Moy river ( at foxford ) and Easkey river ( Fortland Fishery )

http://www.anglingwestireland.com/index.html

For sea angling try

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/map%20of%20ireland%20-%20shore.htm

This is an excellent and comprehensive site.