FISHING SEASON. 61 



the only seasons when I have fished in Ire- 

 land, I have seldom taken any large trout; 

 but in the river Boyle, late in October, after 

 a flood, I once had some sport with these fish, 

 that were running up the river from Loch 

 Key to spawn. I caught one day two above 

 3 lbs. that took a large reddish-brown fly of 

 the same kind as a salmon fly; and I saw 

 some taken that weighed 5 lbs., and heard of 

 one that equalled 9 lbs. These fish w^ere in 

 good season, even at this late period, and had 

 no spots, but were coloured red and brown — 

 mottled like tortoise-shell, only with smaller 

 bars. I have in July, likewise, fished in Loch 

 Con, near Ballina, and Loch Melvin, near 

 Ballyshannon. In Loch Con the party caught 

 many small good trout, that cut red ; and in 

 the other I caught a very few trout only, but 

 as many of them were gillaroo or gizzard trout 

 as common trout. 



PoiET. — This must have been an interest- 

 ing kind of fishing. In what does the gillaroo 

 differ from the trout? 



Hal. — In appearance very little, except 

 that they have more red spots, and a yellow 



