Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakesBeing the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland . tirrive, the latter from Glentornan Lough :both rivers and loughs are good brown-trout waters and may befished free by visitors at the hotel. Lough Nacung Lowerreceives one feeder of importance. The Altmore, which flowsfrom Lough Nabrackbraddv. The hotel has boats on the loughsand the river can be fished from its banks ; wading is not neces-sary. The use of a gaff is prohibited on The Cladv and Lough GWEEDORE A
Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakesBeing the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland . tirrive, the latter from Glentornan Lough :both rivers and loughs are good brown-trout waters and may befished free by visitors at the hotel. Lough Nacung Lowerreceives one feeder of importance. The Altmore, which flowsfrom Lough Nabrackbraddv. The hotel has boats on the loughsand the river can be fished from its banks ; wading is not neces-sary. The use of a gaff is prohibited on The Cladv and Lough GWEEDORE AND CLADY RIVER. 81 Nacung, as it is calrulated to deteriorate the market value of thefish caught and not retained by the angler. Mr. Robertsonprovides roomy landing nets in place of a gaff. Flies should beof from medium to small size, except in very high water. Goodsalmon patterns are :—Clarets, Jock Scott, Fiery Brown, Blackand Silver, Olives and a local fly styled the Grey Monkey. Thekilling patterns of sea-trout and brown-trout flies are :—Claretand Partridge, The Butcher, Claret and Grouse, Zulu, MarchBrown, Hares Ear, Blue and Blea, Orange and Grouse, andBlack and A POOL ON THE LOWER CLADV. In its upper reaches the Clady River is sinuous and some-what sluggish at places, requiring a good breeze to fish at itsbest. From below the hotel there are a succession of strong-flowing streams, eddying pools, and boulder-strewn some places the river is confined between high, rocky banks,this being especially the case as it nears the sea, in others thesurroundings are quite open ; in no case is any particular diffi-culty experienced in fishing it. At the salmon leap, and from itto Bunbeg, the scenery associated with the Clady River is very S2 PICTURESQUE DONEGAL. fine, and some of the pools will delight the salmon fisher. Thepools as they occur fishing down from just below the hotel arenamed :—Barracks, Bridge, Gagers, Williams, Robertsons,Stick, Devers Turn,
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