10 FISHING GOSSIP. 
IRISH LOACH-TROLLING 
ITS ORIGIN AND PRACTICE. 
On Lough Neagh’s bank, as the fisherman strays, 
When the clear cold eve's declining, 
He sees the round towers of other days 
In the waves beneath him shining. 
Thus shall Memory often, in dreams sublime, 
Catch a glimpse of the days that are over ; 
Thus, sighing, look through the waves of Time 
For the long-faded glories they cover !—Moonrs. 
In a mood somewhat kindred to the spirit of these 
beautiful verses, it occurred to us to “catch a 
glimpse of the days that are over ;” and to rescue 
from “the waves of time” a few recollections of 
Trish angling half-a-century ago. 
The particular: description of fishing indicated 
was practised for some time as a secret in the larger 
lakes of the midland counties ; and in its early 
stages the harvest reaped was certainly great, and 
the motives for concealment proportionate. It is not 
to be supposed, however, that the value of a practice 
so fertile in results, and conducted in the open day, 
