Identifier: picturesquedoneg00shru (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Shrubsole, Edgar S
Subjects: Donegal (Ireland : County) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : W. Cate, Limited

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ce below, Lough Fern. There are, however, some verylikely pools on it, and the one above Ballvdoan Bridge and TheThorn Pool are always well worth a trial. Lough Fern is avery fine sheet of water, over a mile and a half long, and offers—as a free water—exceptional facilities for the salmon and troutfisher. The Lennon flows in and out of it at the southern end,and thus the best chance of a salmon occurs there, howbeit fishdistribute themselves fairly well over the whole of the lough :very good drifts are those quite close to the shore on the easternand western side for a distance extending quite half-way to thenorthern end of the water. It is a capital brown-trout lake, thebest drifts for these fish being around the islands at the northernend. Flies same as for the Lennon, both salmon and trout.Boat and boatmen four shillings per day. There are some goodboats on the lake. The best time for salmon fishing is from Mayuntil July; but, granted decent runs of fish in the ri\er, it fishes
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Kir.MACRENAN BRIDGE. RIlER LKXXON. 33 well Iii^ht throui^hout the season. Best months for brown-trout^May and June; but sometimes the bigger baskets are made lateron. Some extraordinary baskets of brown-trout are made on thi.s.water at times, and from four to six dozen fish is by no means anexceptional catch. It is set amidst picturesque scenery, and thetimber-clad heights of Movle Hill form a landmark for milesaround. The lower reaches of the Lennon, between Lough Fern andRamelton, have attractions lacking in some of the upper water :there are fine bends finishing in likely-looking pools, and the LOUGH SALT boulder-strewn broken waters end in strong streams, the tails ofwhich generally hold a fish. The river hereabouts is very sinuousand, at places, somewhat difficult to approach. However, a littlepatience enables the angler to cover nil the water, and, certainly,the most likely spots are comparatively easily get-at-able. Justbefore reaching Ramelton the Lennon receives another tribu

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