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may be made to the River Eden, at 

 Armathwaite, of which Dr. William 

 Murray writes in the following terms : 

 " I can catch a good basket in almost any 

 weather, both when the river is high and 

 when dead low, and on bright, cloudless 

 days. Under the latter conditions, I get 

 them under the trees and in the open, 

 basking on the flat rocks, which run well 

 out into the river. . . . For my part, I 

 do not think that any rules as to weather 

 have a general application. What suits 

 one place does not suit another. I have 

 done very well in the most boisterous, 

 bitter weather in April or September, 

 and have returned with an empty creel 

 after a warm, dull day, with slightly 

 coloured water and everything favourable. 

 Truly, the ways of trout are past finding 

 out by the wit of man." 



" It is," writes Admiral Sir Michael 

 Culme Seymour, "within the experience 

 of most anglers that they have caught 

 fish in every possible sort of weather." 

 Another fisherman of forty -five years' 



