FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



INTRODUCTION 



Weather as an excuse for failure Weather in other 

 sports Cases in which the influence of weather is 

 negligible Mr. Hutchinson's views Importance of 

 body of water in the river Salmon, sea-trout, and 

 Thames trout insensible to weather and temperature 

 Brown trout taken in all weathers Educated trout 

 more susceptible to weather than others Mr. W. Earl 

 Hodgson on symptoms Earthquakes What is ideal 

 fishing weather? Cold-weather fish Concealing 

 the fraud No consensus of expert opinion regarding 

 weather Colonel Bairnsfather's " normal weather" 

 theory Mr. Harvie-Browu on the deterioration of 

 the British climate The spring of 1905 Mr. Munro 

 Edwards on the same subject Weather lore in fishes 

 The late Matthias Dunn's theory Norfolk trout at 

 fault : Mr. Hall's experience Sunshine Is rising 

 short due to light? Possible effect of solar eclipse 

 Fish dazzled by sunshine Rain and hail Frost and 

 snow Cases of good sport in "snow-broth " Wind 

 Thunder and lightning Fog and mist What, then, 

 is bad fishing weather? Other conditions besides 

 those enumerated Weather and sea-fishing John 

 Bickerdyke's views The moral of this book. 



THE fisherman's first impulse, on getting 



out of bed on a holiday morning, is to 



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