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at variance with the notion of taking salmon in 

 the tide-way; because if they are never stationary 

 there, according to the second opinion, being on 

 the move, they will not take a fly according to the 

 first. But then comes a third data, for instance, 

 that in the " Angler in Ireland," and there can 

 be no doubt that in rivers of similar character to 

 that of which he writes, fish will rise in the tide- 

 way. Speaking of the Moy at Ballina, he, at 

 vol. i. p. 151, describes it thus, " about one hun- 

 dred yards above the old bridge, is a ledge of 

 rock, where are situated the weirs or salmon 

 boxes ; they entirely occupy the whole breadth 

 of the stream, with the exception of a narrow gap, 

 to let the spent fish go down, Eew salmon can 

 pass above them, except in very high floods, 

 until their removal in close time. Rod fishing 

 extends from these weirs for about a mile down 

 the river, but as the tide reaches quite up to them, 

 there are three hours every day when all chance 

 of sport is suspended by the entrance of salt 

 water," &c. 



Herb. I see what you mean. In such a river, 

 the fish, waiting in hopes of being able to ascend 

 higher, are per force stationary, and may there- 

 fore take the fly. 



Theoph. Just so : except, however, in a river 

 where the ebb and flow of the tide is so short, 

 we may consider it as a general rule that when 



