Ballina sits on the River Moy in north County Mayo, where the river meets the tide at the head of Killala Bay.
Fly fishing on the River Moy in Ballina, County Mayo. Photo: Milesoneill, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ballina sits on the River Moy in north County Mayo, where the river meets the tide at the head of Killala Bay; upstream the Moy passes Foxford, close to Lough Conn and Lough Cullin, and Lough Mask and Lough Carra lie further south.
6 guides and lodges within 40 miles (1 fly-focused, 0 lodges). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.
Sligo, Co. Sligo · 27 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons
Sligo, Co. Sligo · 37 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons
The circle is the 40-mile area this page covers, around Ballina. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.
Map of the Ballina & the River Moy area: its waters, shops and guides
Map of Ballina & the River Moy: the 40-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.
The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.
No live reading is shown on this hub page; open a linked water for the agency gauges and sources we hold for it.
5 guide and lodge websites nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.
Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.
Fees on the agency page
In Ireland a licence from Inland Fisheries Ireland is needed to fish for salmon and sea trout; brown trout, pike and coarse fishing need no licence, but many waters need a permit from the fishery owner or Inland Fisheries Ireland.
Licence pageFees on the agency page
Licence pageNothing here grants or implies access to any water.
Within 40 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.
Near Ballina & the River Moy. Each fact comes from the business's own website, an official register or an approved claim; the listing page links the source.
Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Ballina. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.
1 nearby operator publishes a rates page. We never copy rates or estimate a budget for this hub; these links open each operator's own rates page.
For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.
A steelhead and salmon fly-fishing checklist: a switch or spey rod (or 9′6″ single-hand) in 7–8 weight, Skagit lines and sink tips, swing flies, studded boots and cold-weather layers, with estimated prices and where to buy.
11′–13′6″ two-hand rod, 7–8 weight, Skagit head + sink tips · Steelhead and Pacific salmon
Open checklistTwo-hand casting, sink tips and the swing.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Mayo, Ireland.
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Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.
Links checked 22 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.
Ballina, Mayo, Ireland
Fishing lodge · 0.2 mi
Mayo, Mayo, Ireland
Fishing lodge · 9.2 mi
Ballina, Mayo, Ireland
Fishing lodge · 9.3 mi
Sligo, Donegal, Ireland
B&B · 33 mi
