Boats, live bait, fishing tackle and specialised fishing maps, and a vast fund of local fishing knowledge and expertise are readily available throughout the town. Some Bites are generally plentiful on all normal methods, though a groundbait feeder is averagely more likely to catch the large hybrids and bream. The river on the Upper Shannon is mostly wide and slow and there are four locks from Athlone to Carrick-on-Shannon and one Lock at the entrance to Lock Key - locks cost 2.50 to pass through at the time of writing.