SALMON FISHING 



The TEELIN, County Donegal, is backward. Mr. 

 Henry Musgrave, Belfast, writes : 



"We have found the salmon fishery at the 

 estuary very unsatisfactory for the last five years. 

 Since the practice of netting salmon in the deep sea 

 was begun, the fish caught in the bay have become 

 fewer year by year. I find that the salmon are 

 much smaller ; which shows that the large fish do 

 not get to the river." 



The BUNDUFF is not prospering. Captain C. R. 

 Barton, Pettigo, County Fermanagh, who has for 

 over twenty years superintended the fishery, writes : 



"The take fluctuates very much from year to 

 year. There are many causes, some adverse and 

 some favourable. The run of sea-trout and salmon 

 is due in July. If there are a few wet days in each 

 week in July many go up the river, which, the 

 boxes having been done away with, is open. If 

 there is very low water only a few get up. The 

 waters run rapidly off the mountains, and the rivers 

 come down drab -coloured, falling before it clears. 

 Thus angling is precarious. In November and 

 December, when seeking to spawn, most of the fish, 

 if the water falls low, are gaffed; turf saturated 

 with paraffin is used as a torch by the light of 

 which to see them. If the weather keeps wet, 

 however, many spawn before they are gaffed; if 

 the rivers remain high they get away, and there is 

 a good run of spring fish in June. If after a good 

 spawning season there is great frost in February 

 and March, most of the eggs are killed, or eaten by 



