INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 

 THE ICHTHYOGRAPHY OF THE ERNE, 



Description of the River — The Pools — The Throws — 

 Belleek Pool— Rose Isle— The Short Throws— The 

 Monk's Ford— The Point of the Mullins— The Bank 

 of Ireland— The Sally Bush— The Tail of the Island 

 and Fox's Throws — Moss Row — Earl's Throw — The 

 Captain's Throw — The Cursed Throw — Johnstone's 

 Throw— The Grass Guard— Sod Ditch— Eel Weir- 

 Cos na Wonna — Reade's Throw — Kathleen's Fall — 

 The Great Pool of Ballyshannon — Rules of the 

 River — Ballyshannon Bridge — The Tanyard and 

 Boxes — Habits of the Salmon and Eel — Average 

 Produce of the Fisheries. 



The Erne is decidedly the best fisherman's 

 river in Ireland, and can be equalled but by 

 few anywhere. Its whole length between 

 its parent lake and the sea may be about 

 nine miles, but of these, four, or at most 

 five, are the only available portion to the 

 salmon fisher, the upper part being too 

 smooth and too deep to afford any very great 

 chance of rising a fish. 



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