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the Gentlemen residing on its banks, from 

 Lismore up, will allow the stranger to fly-fish 

 through their grounds, send their keepers to 

 shew them the best places, and are most hos- 

 pitable and polite. At the Killarney junction, 

 Mallow, the angler takes his seat, and in a 

 little time is delighted with the sight of the 

 Lakes. I visited Killarney in 1848, on an 

 angling excursion in Ireland, to recruit my 

 fallen spirits, if possible, after many years of 

 industrious labour, "and it is myself that 

 would advise the sickly to go there, if he had 

 legs to walk on," says poor Pat. 



To my great disappointment at the time, the 

 Lakes were netted by their respective owners, 

 which rather damped my spirits after going so 

 far "a fishing" — my sport there was but inferior. 

 It is not so now, many thanks to Lord Kenmare 

 and Mr. Herbert, who have put a stop to the 

 netting and other contrivances, to the delight of 

 the anglers and inn keepers of the neighbour- 

 hood. I have been given to understand that 

 the Salmon fishing is capital now in the lakes 

 and river. At Ennisfallen Island there is a 

 favourite cast, and another between that and 

 Eoss Island ; another to the south west of it ; 



