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and to hear applications or representations from their 

 tenants. 



I may here conveniently explain that the River Bann, 

 from the sea to the lough from ^vhence it flows, is the 

 property of the London Corporation. They lease the 

 whole of the fishing rights to a limited liability company, 

 of whom Mr. Moore is the managing director, the rent 

 ])aid by the company amounting to £5,000 per annum. 

 The company carry on all the- salmon netting and trapping 

 themselves, but they have sublet the rod-fishing from 

 Coleraine " cuts " to Portna Weir — about twenty miles — ■ 

 to the Bann Angling Club. These gentlemen reserve the 

 best portion for the Use of their own members, and issue 

 weekly tickets at a guinea per week to strangers. Trout- 

 fishing, from the bank, is free to all-comers ; and I know 

 of no river in Ireland which produces such trout as the 

 Bann, either for quantity, size, or quality. It is a slow 

 liver, except in the vicinity of the weir, and a dry-fly 

 trout fisherman will find it an ideal stream for the exer- 

 cise of his scientific method of fishing. . Pale Olive Duns, 

 Claret Spinners, Brown Sedges, of varying shades, Iron 

 Blue Duns, Wickhams, and Black Gnats are amongst 

 the best flies to be used as floaters. 



