skating is obviously, in the open air at 

 any rate, possible only in a certain 

 condition of temperature, while yachting 

 is equally dependent on the prevalence 

 of wind. Fishing, while never perhaps 

 wholly arrested by any condition except 

 drought, is more susceptible than most 

 sports to those shades of difference, on 

 which the favourable conditions directly 

 depend : the level and colour of the river 

 on the rainfall ; the hatch of fly on the 

 temperature ; the success, or even the 

 possibility, of fly-fishing on the strength 

 and direction of the wind. 



Cases in It is apparent from much of the 



influence of correspondence on which these chapters 

 weather is are based that many anglers of wide and 



negligible. 



varied experience regard the influence of 

 weather conditions as sometimes, though 

 by no means always, negligible. Some 

 have found that its effect is insignificant 

 in the case of certain rivers and lakes, 

 while others discount its importance in 

 the case only of a particular species of 

 fish. As a case of the former, reference 



