School: Radharc an Locha (roll number 13639)
- Location:
- Aghamore Near, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Chaomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0161, Page 371
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- When people are fishing for pike they usually shoot them or spear them with a gaff. A gaff has four prongs and a handle five foot long. When they see a pike in the water they stick the spear in to its back and lift him in to the shore.
Sometimes they catch bream this way. When they are fishing for perch, bream or trout they have a line and rod. They tie the line on the rod and tie the hook on the line. Then they put the bait on the hook. When they are fishing with the rod and line they go out in a boat and when they are fishing for pike they walk out in the water where there is reeds and mud because it is in the reeds and mud that pike stays.
- Collector
- M. J. Ward
- Address
- Carns, Co. Sligo
