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the best fishing is in the river which runs from Lough Gill 

 through the county town. 



Still further north, in wild and beautiful Donegal, we 

 have on the southern boundary of the county the river 

 Erne, with the grand lough of that name stretching down 

 by Enniskillen into Fermanagh. The short length of 

 water between Lough Erne and Ballyshannon used to be, 

 and, for aught I know to the contrary, now is, one of the 

 favourite salmon reaches in the country ; and hard by, in 

 Leitrim, we have the Bundrowes river and Lough Melvin, 

 in which some good fish, at reasonable charges, may be 

 obtained, especially during April and May. Across, in 

 the other corner of Ulster, there is the Bann, with Lough 

 Neagh. These are the principal angling resorts in the 

 sister island ; but we should not forget the Blackwater, 

 the Suir, the Slaney, and the pretty trout streams within 

 convenient distance of Dublin. As a rule, it may be taken 

 that the angler, more particularly the angler who will be 

 satisfied with sea-trout, brown trout, occasionally gillaroo, 

 and lively pike fishing, can never very w^ell do wrong in 

 going to Ireland. 



The principality of Wales is a delightful country for the 

 trout angler who will be as a rule content with small fish, 

 and who can make up for the rest with the most pic- 

 turesque and beautiful scenery. In North Wales the 

 principal rivers are the Conway (good occasionally for 

 salmon), the Dee, the Dovey, the higher waters of the 

 Severn, the Clwyd, and the Verniew ; while in South 

 Wales, where the sewin gives spirited sport in the autumn, 

 and the brown trout run to a larger size than in the small 

 lakes and mountain streams of the north country, we have 

 the Ogmore, Taff, Taw, Tenie, Towy, Usk, Monnow, and 

 Wye. The salmon fishing of the Usk is proverbial, and I 



