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“cute” to enter it until the Lammas floods set in. 
They hang about the tideway, biding their time for the 
journey to the spawning-beds until they can under- 
take it with some degree of safety, and when they 
have accomplished their object, skedaddle away back 
to the sea again as quickly as possible. 
Westward of Ballinskelligs is Dingle Bay, at the 
head of which the rivers Laun, Cara, and Main dis- 
charge. The first is the outlet from the celebrated 
Lakes of Killarney, and there some salmon, such as 
those before described, are obtained in January. The 
Cara is also connected with lakes, and holds a promi- 
nent place in the list of “early rivers.” My colleague 
in office Mr. Barry, and myself, upon one occasion—a 
23d of November—assembled the local board of con- 
servators, lessees of fisheries, proprietors, etc, hav- 
ing caused the cruives to be set in fishing order the 
night before in Michael Foley’s weir below Cara lake, 
and eighteen salmon were found to have been taken 
in the traps. They all looked bright and beautiful, 
but on a post-mortem examination we found that two 
were so far advanced in roe that they would have 
spawned that season, and that sixteen were in the 
early stage which would suggest their non-spawning 
before the following autumn. 
The third river, the Main, is very much of the 
same class as the Inney, though larger; no lakes, and 
little deep water. Into this river the fish will not 
