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centre or deep part of the river, which the 

 fishermen could not possibly reach. 



These " Traps " are kept down all the sum- 

 mer, from the early spring till the end of 

 August, at which period they are what is termed 

 " lifted," and up run the spawning fish ; and 

 the great fly fishers now lay by their rods and 

 tackle for that season, as fly fishing is prohibited 

 when the salmon are spawning in the rivers. 

 There is certainly a respite in the Tweed, 

 when the nets are taken off at the end of the 

 season for the accommodation of the fly fisher ; 

 and were it so in the Shannon and the Bann, 

 there would be very great satisfaction in having 

 a month or six weeks' fishing in these splendid 

 rivers. They are certainly free throughout the 

 summer to the fly fisher, but he might labour 

 a whole day with his rod and fly without getting 

 a rise, except by chance. 



There will never be any good done imtil the 

 " cruives" or " cuts " are removed off the rivers, 

 unless the head landlord would make an agree- 

 ment with the renter of the *' cruive," and 

 enforce it as a law, — to lift the *' cruive " two 

 days in the week, that there might be fish in 

 the rivers for the accommodation of the great 



