Midlands limestone trout lake south of Mullingar — rich, productive water with good mayfly and sedge hatches. Specimen brown trout are present and regularly taken. Less celebrated than Owel or Sheelin but consistently good and less pressured. A quiet gem for the angler willing to explore.
Lough Ennell's spring turns on a strongly localised duckfly hatch — starting mid-April and peaking around 18-25 April west of Blind Island and the Dysart/Geoghegan shore, with two daily windows, before noon and around 8pm — followed by lake olives from the first week of May for about three weeks. A dense May-into-June sequence follows: large mayfly from around 19 May off Robinstown and Belvedere, chironomids from around 20 May taking fish near the surface on a ripple, the large dark Welshman Button sedge pupae from the third or fourth week of May, and Murrough hatching at dusk by the reed beds. Black terrestrials blown onto the water add a further food source in late May and early June.
- Lough system
- Limestone