HERE - Inland Fisheries Ireland

The Central and Regional Fisheries Boards4.2 Boat sites4.2.1 The River FleskPlate 4.5. The River Flesk at Flesk BridgeThe River Flesk (Plate 4.5) rises in the Derrynasaggart Mountains in south-west Co. Kerry. It flowsnorth-westwards through Killarney before entering Lough Leane. As it leaves the lake it joins with theRiver Laune and flows for another 20 kilometres north-west, eventually reaching the sea near Killorglin atCastlemaine Harbour. An electric fishng survey was conducted along a 300m stretch of the river channelon the 8 th of September 2008 upstream of Flesk Bridge (Fig. 4.16). One fishing was carried out usingthree boat based electric fishing units. The habitat was largely dominated by glide. Some instreamvegetation was present on a substrate mainly comprising cobble. The site had an average width of 24.8mand an average depth of 0.7m. The total wetted area sampled was 7,440.0m 2 . The river channel wassomewhat wide, which largely restricted any shading to the margins.23