H1an.v authoritie5 who have their 'IW!l ideas and achieve success. Personally I start the season with a Gosling as top dropper, a Connemara Black or March Brown as middle and a Golden Butcher on the tail. By mid April I replace the Butcher with the Welshman';; Beetle and the mid dropper with a Golden Olive. As soon as the gorse blazes I use a Hares Ear as mid dropper. · When the May Fly appears this replaces the Gosling, though perhaps the Gosling fishes just as well for it is like a May Fly. I -continue with Hares Ear, or Golden Olive or Claret and Mallard on the mid dropper. As soon as the Daddy is up that replaces the May fly and I retain it and the faithful beetle until the close of the season. Do I take fish? Yes and good ones, but so do others with entirely differe!lt combinations of flies. In Jc1ly and August, when the Daddy is up, grand sport is to be had with the dap. When making up to the start of a drift it is well worth trolling or spinning with the natural minnow or golden sprat, or the blue Devon, the Coilie or the spoon. In this way salmon and lar[~e trout may be taken. Sea trout may be taken spinning the blue and silver Devon or on a Rogan fly lure in the Erne estuary and in variou5> rivers running into Donegal Bay. The Bundrowes, connecting Melvin to the sea is an early salmon river opening on the lst January. Most of the fishing is owncct by an hotel in Bundoran 443. and p;1.rt by a private 1.:~tatc . Tickets may be pureha$ed. The Bunduff, a late salmon river, sometimes fishes well for salmon and sea trout when in spate. The owne"· of the fishing allows members of the Bundoran and District Anglers' Association to fish for trout free of charge. Visit-ors are welcome to join the Asso~iation on payment of 5s. He makes a reasonable charge for salmon fishing, At times mixed bags of small salmon, sea trout .and brown trout may be taken from a boat drifting on Lough Eske where tickets may be obtained at reasonable prices. Every year large trout are taken spinning at the West end of Lough Erne and in the river where it leaves t!W Lough. i'When the May Fly is up some heavy baskets may be taken on the dap or with the dry fly and the ~pent gnat. This area if. a few miles Ea·st of Belleek in Northern Ireland where a 10/- rod licence is required. Tickets. to fish the Erne for salmon or trout may be obtained from the Fishery at Ballyshannon. Grand sport with small but h!ard fighting trout is to be had on the numerous small lakes North East of Ballyshannon. Some of them contain good pikl". and rudd. These lakes appear like jewels among the rockey foot hills which are covered with heather and gorse and from which lovely distant views may be obtained of Donegal Bay and its fringing mountain ranges.
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