School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)

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1. Old Trades - Fishing - Turning Streams (continued)

   

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   trout below the point where the dam is constructed. Night Fishing: During the winter when trout are in the streams they are "poached". A number of boys go together and they have one or more torches(called toarches) and each has a shovel with a short handle and cut straight across below the socket. The "toarch" is made from a sod of turf soaked in paraffin oil and a pike stuck through it. If a long stream is to be fished one of parties has a bottle of paraffin and an old bag.

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2. Old Trades - Fishing - Night Fishing

   

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   The trout spawn in sand where the water not more than a few inches to half a foot deep. The scrape away the sand forming a saucer like bed into which a male and a female trout stretch side by side. While the female is laying her eggs she is constantly moving the lower part of her body to and from the male. He performs a similar movement and parts with a white liquid which fertilizes the eggs. They then cover the eggs with the sand they had piled up around the bed.
   The bed is called a "scour"

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