56 TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING. 



Bridge, are of a bright sparkling appearance, whilst 

 others caught in Horns and Dendles, or on the 

 moor above, are generally very dark, and in some 

 of the pools which seldom enjoy the rays of the 

 sun, are almost black. 



The author of the " Wild Sports of the West of 

 Ireland" remarks," I never observed the effect of 

 bottom soil upon the quality of fish so strongly 

 marked as in the trout taken in a small lake, in 

 the county of Monaghan. The water is a long 

 irregular sheet, of no great depth : one shore 

 bounded by a bog, the other, by a dry and gravelly 

 surface. On the bog side, the trout are of the 

 dark and shapeless species peculiar to moory 

 loughs, while the other affords the beautiful and 

 sprightly variety, generally inhabiting rapid and 

 sandy streams. Narrow as the lake is, the fish 

 appear to confine themselves to their respective 

 limits : the red trout being never found upon the 

 bog moiety of the lake, nor the black where the 

 under surface is hard gravel." 



