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Lough Neagh is not more tlian twenty miles from the 

 town of Belfast, and here fine lake -fishing may be 

 enjoyed. There are trout and salmon in this lake, and 

 very large pike, though by no means numerous. When 

 the waters are in good order, and curl is favourable, the 

 fly is very successfully enjoyed on Lough Neagh; but 

 the largest trouts are commonly captured by trolling. 



The Bann is a good trout and salmon river. It 

 enters the sea at Coleraine. The higher the angler 

 ascends the river the fly-fishing improves. It is no 

 uncommon feat for an angler to take ten or twelve good- 

 sized salmon and a creel full of fine trout in a day ; 

 nay, it sometimes happens, in a few hours. Good large 

 flies may be used in the lower parts of the Bann, but as 

 the water diminishes, smaller must be adopted. Trolling 

 in this river is often successful. Large trout are taken 

 after a fresh in summer by this plan. The angler will 

 find a good supply of flies of all kinds at Coleraine, 

 and in almost every village on the banks of this 

 river. 



The Bollinderry, which flows from the west, and falls 

 into Lough Neagh, is a good angling river. Large trout 

 are frequently caught in it, and they are of a very rich 

 flavour. The best station on it is about three miles 

 below its source. It here becomes a beautiful fly- 

 stream. 



The river Foyle, which divides the counties of 

 Londonderry and Donegal, and forms Lough Foyle, 

 before its entrance into the ocean, is a good angling 

 river in its higher departments. Some of its feeders 

 come out of the mountains and boggy districts of the 

 county of Monaghan, and are full of trout, but not of 

 any great size. 



The districts of the Foyle best adapted for the fly, 

 and for the capture of large fish, are those which lie 

 between Omagh, in the county of Tyrone, and Strabane, 

 which is situated on the river Mourne, before it enters 

 the Foyle. In all this range of water the river is 

 beautifully adapted for angling ; and when it is in fair 

 order, and the fish in the humour, a good-sized creel is 



