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Foyle Area (Angling) Regulations 1999

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Regulations 3 and 5(3)(a)

SCHEDULE 1

Description of WatersMethods of Angling Permitted

1.  Lough Ash, Lough Bradan, Lough Lee and Moorlough all in County Tyrone and Binevenagh Dam in County Londonderry.

From the shore fly fishing, spinning and bait fishing and from boats on Moorlough fly fishing only.

2.  River Mourne, County Tyrone (except that area mentioned in Schedule 2 where angling is prohibited).

(a)Victoria Bridge stretch being the west bank of the River Mourne from the road bridge at Victoria Bridge to the railway bridge known as Camus Railway Bridge in the townland of Seein.

Fly fishing, spinning and bait fishing.

(b)Sion Mills stretch being the east bank of the River Mourne extending from the footbridge at the boundary between the townlands of Carrigullin and Bearney Glebe to the boundary between the townlands of Carrigullin and Stragullin and the west bank extending from the weir at Sion Mills in the townland of Liggartown to the boundary between the townlands of Ballyfatten and Strabane Union.

Fly fishing, spinning and bait fishing.

3.  River Roe and tributaries and River Faughan and tributaries (except those areas mentioned in Schedule 2 where angling is prohibited).

Fly fishing where the breaking strain of the cast shall not exceed 3.7 kg for night fishing and 6.9 kg for fishing at other times and where no more than two single dressed fly hooks of normal weight spaced at least 0.61 m apart are used for night fishing.
Bait fishing where the gape of the hook does not exceed 9 mm, the breaking strain of the line does not exceed 4.6 kg and the maximum length of the rod does not exceed 2.75 m, provided that this method is not used for night fishing.
Spinning where the gape of the hook does not exceed 7 mm, the breaking strain of the line does not exceed 4£6 kg and the maximum length of the rod does not exceed 2.75 m provided that this method is not used for night fishing.

4.  River Roe. From and within 280.0 metres upstream of Largy Bridge in the townlands of Largy and Ardgarvan, County Londonderry.

Fly fishing where the breaking strain of the cast shall not exceed 3.7 kg for night fishing and 6.9 kg for fishing at other times and where no more than two single dressed fly hooks of normal weight spaced at least 0.61 m apart are used for night fishing.
Bait fishing where the gape of the hook does not exceed 9 mm, the breaking strain of the line does not exceed 4.6 kg and the maximum length of the rod does not exceed 2.75 m, provided that this method is not used for night fishing.

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