8 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



the indirect effects of weather, in altering 

 the height and colour of the water, have 

 an immense influence, but the immediate 

 effect of changes is either nil, or else so 

 subtle in its cause that we cannot under- 

 stand it. That, at least, is my opinion." 

 importance General Tulloch, who has had a long 

 water Lthe experience of renting stretches on the 

 river. Usk, the Ristagouche (Canada), a Nor- 



wegian river, and some fishing on the 

 Ness (during a tenancy of two years on 

 the last he kept faithful day and night 

 registers of the temperature), considers 

 that the run of salmon depends wholly 

 on the body of water in the river and not 

 in the least on weather conditions. Nor 

 is he alone in regarding the body of water 

 as of much greater importance than either 

 weather or temperature. Mr. Conner 

 writes of the Bandon River : " The best 

 day is immediately after the rise of the 

 river after rain is over. You will then 

 kill salmon in practically any weather." 

 Again : " In every river that I have fished," 

 says Sir Henry Seton-Karr, " (and they 



