42 Rambles with a fishing-Rod. 



tions from the main road already mentioned, 

 which carries the fisherman right past Shindilla, 

 round the topmost lake of what may be termed 

 the Ballynahinch chain, and within reach of 

 Derryclare, Inagh, and the other lakes and 

 rivers more distant from Galway. But the 

 angler is not confined to white trout, for capital 

 brown-trout fishing is to be had in all these 

 lakes, and in others scattered among the hills, 

 some of which are mere ponds in the bogs. 

 Thus any one who chooses to come to Con- 

 nemara for a fortnight in May or June will 

 obtain many an excellent day's sport when 

 the brown trout are in the heyday of their 

 season. Let him look out for an inn near a 

 lake, and once having got some sort of idea 

 of the country, the line of the roads, and 

 the situation of the lakes, he ought to have no 

 possible difficulty in amusing himself for some 

 time. But the sport shown by the fresh-run 

 white trout is often so brilliant, and they come 

 up at so convenient a season for the fisherman 

 who is also a man of business, that the brown 

 trout of Connemara are neglected, generally 

 speaking, when they are in the very best con- 

 dition for sport and for eating. There is Lough 



