90 FISHING GOSSIP. 



After turning round the north-eastern corner of 

 the island we come to the Bush, similar in every par- 

 ticular to the Liffey no lakes, some deep pools, a 

 barrier in the shape of a cruive-weir, and January 

 fish as long as the trap was allowed to operate during 

 that month. We proceed westward to Eathmelton 

 river, at the head of Lough Swilly Lough Fearn 

 above December and January fish trying hard for 

 it, but impeded by a weir and captured below. West- 

 ward, at the head of Sheep Haven Bay, is Doe Castle 

 river, lake, and weir with trap January fish. On 

 the north-west coast, in Donegal Bay, we find the 

 small river Bundrows, running from Lough Melville, 

 with a barrier and traps, said to yield a good clean 

 salmon every month in the year except November ; 

 while in the Great Earn, at Ballyshannon, connected 

 with the broad lake of the same name, and debouch- 

 ing within two miles of Bundrows, no such fish can 

 be found until March or April, and I am very much 

 disposed to think that the secret is that they cannot be 

 detected. The waters are large at all times, generally 

 greatly swollen in December and January ; there is no 

 complete impediment, or anything approaching to it, to 

 interfere with or arrest them in their upward progress, 

 and it is quite possible that they pass up unnoticed. 



Proceeding southward we arrive at Sligo. The 

 river there discharges the waters of Lough Gill, a 

 lake of nine miles long, and from one to three broad 



