6 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



experience, Colonel St. Leger Moore, 

 admits that he has lived to see the failure 

 of almost every rule and theory regard- 

 ing the relations between fishing and the 

 weather inculcated in his boyhood. The 

 Rev. J. M. S. Brooke attaches no import- 

 ance whatever to any meteorological 

 conditions, except perhaps the absence 

 of all ripple from the water, or a very 

 brilliant sun. Fish, he thinks, are all eye 

 and no ear, and so long as they are on 

 the feed, weather should not appreciably 

 interfere with the chances of any one who 

 can throw a useful fly. 



Mr. Standish O'Grady considers that 

 no fisherman can prognosticate results by 

 weather conditions. "I hold," he adds, 

 " that it is quite possible to do well with 

 salmon on the brightest days, but I doubt 

 whether one can have too much wind." 



Mr. Hutchin- Mr. Horace Hutchinson holds a some- 

 son's views. 1 'I ' j.1 U' 



what similar opinion on the same subject. 

 "I think," he writes, "that a great deal 

 too much is made of the influence of 

 weather on fish from the angler's point of 



