. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . he best months. Thelakes are free at all times to guests, and in August they shouldbe as good a chance as the river. The first thing, however,to remember, is that you must take out your salmon license—which costs £1—in the district, and a salmon license isnecessary for white trout fishing. A license can be had atthe Gweedore Hotel or at Rosapenna ; in fact at any fishingcentre. The second thing to impress upon your mindis that salmon fishing is a delusion. There is no bettersport, but none more annoying; and on these small riversthe conditions are
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . he best months. Thelakes are free at all times to guests, and in August they shouldbe as good a chance as the river. The first thing, however,to remember, is that you must take out your salmon license—which costs £1—in the district, and a salmon license isnecessary for white trout fishing. A license can be had atthe Gweedore Hotel or at Rosapenna ; in fact at any fishingcentre. The second thing to impress upon your mindis that salmon fishing is a delusion. There is no bettersport, but none more annoying; and on these small riversthe conditions are particularly aggravating. Where there aretrout, you can generally induce them to take at some timein the day or night, unless the water is muddy—and thenyou can get them with a worm, if you stoop to that branch ofthe art. But a river may be cram full of salmon and for daystogether, even with cloudy skies, they will never really riseif there has been a long spell of low water. I haveseen the long pool at the Lackagh broken every minute. Without a License 3°2 THE LACKAGII CHAP. with rising fish and not been able to stir one, day after was then that Neddy Gallagher used to sit down and tellus about an Englishman that once took the river for twomonths and paid a hundred pounds for it. The first monthhe fished it up and he fished it down and niver turned a tail;and the second month he sat down on a rock in the river andhe to the cursing. That was the sorest time ever I put the only thing he hooked in the two months was a heifer. Still, that was exceptional, and there is always this about asalmon, that he does not know his own mind. You may fishover him twenty times and the twenty-first he may take odds are that he wont, but there is no certainty against itas there would be with a trout. I saw a salmon killed thisyear on the Lennan in dead still water, without the ghost of aripple on it. He had risen some time in the afternoon, butrefused to come back i
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