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The salmon line should be of silk and hair 

 eight-plait or four-plait, eighty or a hundred 

 yards long, and for small rivers, sixty yards for 

 a sixteen feet rod. The casting line for clear 

 waters should be half treble and half single 

 gut, to suit grilse or small salmon flies in 

 summer ; and in the spring of the year when 

 large flies are in use, good strong-twisted gut, 

 three yards long, is what is necessary for a 

 heavy reel line, particularly in large rivers, as 

 the Shannon and the Bann in Ireland, and the 

 Tweed in Scotland. 



There are not three better Salmon Eivers in 

 the world than the above, were the salmon 

 allowed access into them during the summer 

 months for the amusement of those great 

 angling gentlemen who would visit them 

 during that period, or even if there were but a 

 few let up past the " cruives " or " cuts," that 

 there might be a sprinkling for them to throw 

 flies over. It would not matter to them what 

 nets the fishermen along the shores of the 

 estuaries used, as they only affect the " Cruives," 

 or "Fixed Traps " built across the rivers, as of 

 course less fish run into them, and there would 

 be abundance of salmon and grilse go up the 



