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ueral rule but admits of particular exceptions, yet the 

 exact knowledge of what rivers or soils, or what part 

 of the river, for some rivers have swift gravely 

 streams, and also slow, deep, muddy places , such or 

 such sorts of fish do most frequent, will exceedingly 

 adapt you, to know what rivers, or what part of them 

 are most fit for your baits, or what baits suit best with 

 each river, and the fish in the same. 



1. The Salmon loves large swift rivers, where 

 there is considerable ebbing and flowing, and there that 

 fish is found in the greatest numbers ; nevertheless, I 

 have known them to be found in lesser rivers, high up 

 in the country, yet chiefly hi the latter end of the year, 

 when they come thither to spawn, he chooses the most 

 swift and violent streams, or rather cataracts, and in 

 England the clearest gravely rivers usually with rocks 

 or weeds ; but in Ireland, I do not know any river, I 

 mean high in the country, that hath such plenty of them 

 as the black water, by Charlemont, and the broad water, 

 by Shane's Castle, both which have their heads in great 

 bogs, and are of a dark muddy colour, and very few 

 comparatively in the upper ban, though clearer and 

 swifter than they. 



2. The Trout is found in small purling brooks, 

 or rivers that are very swift, and run upon stones or 

 gravel j he feeds whilst strong in the swiftest streams, 

 behind a stone, a log, or some small bank, which, 

 shooting into the river, the streams beareth upon -, and 

 there he lieth watching for what comes down the stream, 

 and suddenly catches it up. His hold is usually in the 



