152 WHAT I HAVE SEEN WHILE FISHING 



phaties, it would be dhry in the mouth they'd be 

 as yer honors were this same day." 



The new iron bridge over the Gweebara gave 

 us a capital view of a long stretch of this splendid 

 salmon river, the best probably in all Donegal, but 

 the privilege to fish it is most difficult to procure. 

 When on the other side of this bridge you are 

 encircled with rivers and lakes almost all of which 

 are fishable from Dungloe. Indeed there is no 

 place in all Ireland, so far as I know, where there 

 is such a variety of fishing to be had. Fintown 

 on the Donegal railway is the nearest station. 



We were most unfortunate in finding the hotels 

 full at Dungloe, but we were given a nice lunch 

 and pressed to come back in a week, when rooms 

 could be had and fishing in over 100 lakes and 

 on a salmon river that has no nets at its mouth 

 and from which fish have been taken up to 25lb., 

 and sea-trout up to 7 Ib. 



Lunch over we had to determine our next 

 move and decided on Burton Port, where we had 

 a splendid time so far as sport on the sea was 

 concerned, comfortable quarters, good attention and 

 capital food. 



Burton Port is the terminus of the Donegal 

 Light Railway, built by the Government and 

 handed over to the Letterkenny Railway Company, 

 who work it, and it is therefore in direct communi- 

 cation with Londonderry, and just twenty hours 

 from Euston. 



