Trout Fishing in Wicklow 167 



Lord Powerscroft's most beautiful demesne, 

 on through a long thickly-wooded glen which 

 takes its name from the river, passes the 

 village of Little Bray (in reality, a suburb 

 of the town of Bray), and empties into the 

 sea just beyond. 



The Glencree River and the Glencullen, 

 sometimes called the Enniskerry River, are 

 tributaries of the Dargle, and all contain 

 considerable numbers of trout which, in 

 point of size, are similar to those in the 

 Devonshire rivers, so that, as a rule, the 

 fisherman has to content himself with 

 quantity, not quality. 



As arranged, we fished these three 

 streams during our first week, and with 

 the usual result good baskets in point of 

 numbers, but mighty few fish over six ounces 

 the largest of the fish killed during the 

 week being an ugly, big-headed brute, 

 weighing a pound and a quarter, and he 



