INTRODUCTION 9 



are many), the experienced local fishermen 

 know, to an inch almost, the proper height 

 for every throw." 



It would seem as if the larger game 

 fish, salmon, sea-trout and Thames trout 

 were all at certain times, and in some 

 waters at any rate, insensible to the in- 

 fluence of weather and temperature. 



Of the first, Sir Herbert Maxwell Salmon, sea- 

 writes : " Given no excess of sunshine, Thames trout 

 I have yet to learn what is a bad day for insensible to 



weather and 



salmon fishing. If fish are in the water, temperature, 

 some are sure to be on the move, but, as 

 they are not feeding, naturally they are 

 more capricious than trout." As regards 

 the connection between salmon fishing 

 and temperature, Sir Henry Seton-Karr 

 writes : " Anglers break the ice on the 

 Thurso in January, and on Deeside in 

 February ; they shake the ice from line 

 and rod-rings on the Tweed in November, 

 and in all these cases catch salmon freely 

 on the fly ; while on summer evenings 

 many an Irish and Norwegian salmon- 

 river yield their best sport." Dr. Bright 



