The River Lee At Cork
Would be as good a place as any in Ireland "to go to fish," were it not
for the "weirs," and foul play in many ways, which is practised all the
way up, on the poor salmon; there is some little sport to be had in it
in the spring, and after heavy rains. The flies to suit it are rather
plain and small, blue, grey, brown, claret, and green; mallard wings,
mixed with a little golden pheasant tail and neck feathers; blue macaw
feelers, black head, and mixed tails like the wings. Hook B CC, in high
water BB and No. 9.