90 FISHING GOSSIP. 
After turning round the north-eastern corner of 
the island we come to the Bush, similar in every par- 
ticular to the Liffey—no lakes, some deep pools, a 
barrier in the shape of ‘a cruive-weir, and January 
fish as long as the trap was allowed to operate during 
that month. We proceed westward to Rathmelton 
river, at. the head of Lough Swilly—Lough Fearn 
above—December and January fish trying hard for 
it, but impeded by a weir and captured below. West- 
ward, at the head of Sheep Haven Bay, is Doe Castle 
river, lake, and weir with trap—January fish. On 
the north-west coast, in Donegal Bay, we find the 
small river Bundrows, running from Lough Melville, 
with a barrier and traps, said to yield a good clean 
salmon every month in the year except November ; 
while in the Great Earn, at Ballyshannon, connected 
with the broad lake of the same name, and debouch- 
ing within two miles of Bundrows, no such fish can 
be found until March or April, and I am very much 
disposed to think that the secret is that they cannot be 
detected. The waters are large at all times, generally 
greatly swollen in December and January; there is no 
complete impediment, or anything approaching to it, to 
interfere with or arrest them in their upward progress, 
and it is quite possible that they pass up unnoticed. 
Proceeding southward we arrive at Sligo. The 
river there discharges the waters of Lough Gill, a 
lake of nine miles long, and from one to three broad 
