UPPER LOUGH ERNE: Principally coarse fish: pike, eel, perch, rudd, bream, roach, occasional salmon and sea trout. Centres: Lisnaskea; Newtown Butler; Enniskillen. The National Trust at Crom Estate has fishing on Inisherk and Derryvore Islands, with excellent bream and roach. Dt £3 in advance from Sharon Sey, Gate Lodge, Crom Estate, Newtownbutler, Fermanagh, tel: 028 677 38825. Stocked pike lake dt £20, very limited. Boats for hire, contact Visitors Centre, tel: 028 677 38118. Accommodation at national Trust Holiday Cottages, tel: 01396 881204; Carrybridge Hotel & Marina, 171 Inishmore Rd, Lisbellaw (028 66 387148), is situated on Upper Lough Erne, and has boats on site. Mill Lough, Bellanaleck: 100 acres Dept of Ag r and b trout fishery 4 miles from Enniskillen, 4 fish limit. At Castle Coole, Lough Coole, National Trust Fishery. B and r trout to 5lbs. ½ dt (boat) £3. Killyfole Lough, 56 acres, nr Lisnaskea, has a variety of coarse fish, incl perch and pike. Permits from F Dowler, Main St, Lisnaskea. Tackle shops:  for local fishing); Erne Tackle, Main Street, Lisnaskea;  Co Fermanagh.Tele: 028 677 21969 .Hotels: Killyhevlin; Manor House; Railway; all Enniskillen; and Ortine, Lisnaskea. Ely Island Chalets (0028 689 777) offer self-catering accommodation with boats and tackle, also private trout lake, with breeding rainbows. Riverside Farm, Gortadrehid, Enniskillen (028 66 322725) has accommodation with boats and bait supplied. Derryad Cottages, Lisnaskea (0181 5674487): fishing holidays with motor boats supplied. J & S Reihill (028 677 21360), accommodation with fishing on 80 acre Inniscorkin Island shoreline. Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen, has chalets on banks of Erne, with fishing stages. Tel: 028 66 323481.

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