200 SALMON FISHING 



The river is very much over -netted in the tidal 

 portion, and, worse, in the fresh water, where no net 

 of any sort should be allowed to fish. Net-fishing 

 begins too early and closes too late in the year. 

 There should be no fishing earlier than March 1, 

 andj none later than September 15. Trout should 

 be treated similarly. 



" The Suir could be made an ideal river. It has 

 about seventy miles of first-class salmon -fishing 

 water. It is better than most rivers. The stands 

 are so close to one another that you can fish almost 

 continuously. I have visited a good many rivers in 

 Canada, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia, where 

 I found the pools often more than a mile apart, 

 which was tiresome. The fish in the Suir run to 

 great weights. I have known a few, taken on the 

 rod, weighing 50 Ibs., and a good many between 

 40 Ibs. and 50 Ibs. My best fish was 34 Ibs. ; but I 

 have caught a great many between 30 Ibs. and 34 Ibs. 

 The average weight of one yearns fish taken by me 

 and a friend who was with me for two months was 

 17 Ibs. for fifty-six. That was about twenty years 

 ago, and we might have done much more had 

 we fished oftener. March and April are the best 

 months. As soon as the weather becomes bright in 

 May the fishing is over. Then the salmon rise only 

 either very early in the morning or when the sun 

 goes down. As soon as the river is low enough the 

 nets are at work nightly, and there is no use fishing 

 the pools that have been swept. 



" The trout fishing on the upper water from 



