Lough Fee lies in the high Connemara country just south of Killary Harbour, a narrow lough three kilometres long beneath the Twelve Bens and the Garraun hills. It takes the Tooreenacoona River at its head and spills north-west to Lough Muck and on through the short Culfin River to the Atlantic. This is hard granite-and-quartzite country, the water clear but soft and acidic off the surrounding bog and mountain. Fee holds a good stock of small wild brown trout, with salmon running the system and a run of sea trout that, though thinner than in former times, still comes in off the tide. Part of the Twelve Bens Special Area of Conservation, it is wild, scenic, mountain-walled water. The character is an exposed upland lough — rocky margins, granite shoals and a stony shore — fished from boat or bank to the wave. Wading the shore and streams is steady on firm rock.

Wading: Exposed mountain walled lough