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servation of the Scottish rivers. To ensure salmon- 

 fishing in Scotland, it is quite necessary, before you 

 go there, either to rent some fishery, or else, when 

 there, to obtain tickets : but you would find this latter 

 mode of purchasing tickets very expensive. 



It is much more easy to obtain permission in 

 Ireland, as the fishermen do not swarm there in such 

 numbers as they do in Scotland. For one of the 

 principal things to be attended to, in looking out for 

 salmon-fishing, is to find a river where the salmon are 

 numerous and the rods few ; for little sport can be 

 expected where the water is daily flogged from mom- 

 ing till night without intermission. Before taking 

 tickets, you should inquire the number of catches or 

 salmon-stands, and whether the number of tickets is 

 limited ; or you may find twenty tickets granted to 

 fish a water, where there may not be room for more 

 than three rods. 



It is impossible to give any precise rule with 

 regard to the flies to be used for salmon-fishing ; for 

 while in some rivers very large flies are used, in others 

 a very small fly only will answer : for instance, in the 

 Ballynahinch river, in Connemara, Ireland, very small 



flies indeed are used, as under : 



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