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THE LENNAN AND LOCH FERN IN DONEGAL. 



The Lennan is a dull river, and with the exception of 

 close to the weir, is not of much use for salmon-fishing ; 

 but Loch Fern, from which it runs, gives fair sport at 

 times. Loch Fern is not a large lake, and is weedy and 

 shallow ; it is hardly worth going to, unless the angler 

 chances to be going to or from Gweedore, via Rathmelton. 



The Inchiquin fly does there, and it will do better if, 

 instead of mallard and peacock breast wing, plain brown 

 turkey, or gold pheasant tail are used. The body and 

 hackle can also be varied by being made more or less 

 sandy. Pig's wool, from the natural white to the above 

 red, hackles of lighter or darker red to match, and wings 

 of brown turkey or gold pheasant tail, are the correct 

 thing. The flies should be rough and well picked out. 

 Hooks Nos. 8 to 10. 



THE SHANNON. 



The Shannon is a very large and heavy river. The 

 water in places is very rapid, broken, and dangerous to the 

 angler's hopes, as it often occurs that the place where a 

 fish is hooked is so infested with hidden and awkward 

 rocks that the angler is obliged to hold on and not to give 

 a yard of line if he can avoid it. The water at Castle 

 Connell has long been celebrated as a first-class sporting 

 water, and here the salmon-fisher frequently has magni- 

 ficent sport. At Killaloe the water is more open and easy. 

 Lough Derg, an expansion of the Shannon, gives splendid 

 large trout-fishing, and when the fish are in the humour 

 great numbers are taken with the cross line. As on the 

 Moy, much of the fishing is done from cots. 



The large heavy water Shannon flies are very showy 



