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who freely offered me the use of his. It is quite 

 three miles to the pier-head from which it was 

 arranged to start, so we determined on the use of 

 a car, one of many at the hotel. We were very 

 pleased with this ride, as it enabled us the better 

 to enjoy a sight of the beautiful bay, the scenery 

 surrounding it, and the fishers thereon. 



The first photo shows a portion of the bay 

 looking towards Carrick. The second is the lower 

 end as it enters the sea. The well-constructed 

 and useful pier was erected by the Congested 

 Districts Board, a body of men who deserve 

 lasting credit, even if their good works were 

 limited to the piers from which I have started 

 and the boats I have fished from. 



It was about eleven o'clock when we started in 

 the boat to try our luck, and very soon my son 

 was prepared to drop the bait overboard ; but 

 Billy's and Paddy's curiosity, which had been 

 growing with the putting together of the rod and 

 tackle, caused them to cease rowing and Paddy to 

 ask, " Faix, it's not Irish pollack you'll be after 

 with a thread that it's meself can't see?" His 

 doubts varied only in his manner of expressing 

 them from what I had so often heard before, 

 so that I was ready to say, " Row on ; we shall 



soon see." 



As my son was letting out the line I looked 

 over the side that I might tell him of the depth 

 at which to fish. I had only time to see the great 



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