INTRODUCTION 11 



more appropriately discussed on a later 

 page. 



Of sea-trout, Lord Montagu of Beau- 

 lieu writes : " I have caught them in 

 all kinds of weather rainstorms, hail- 

 storms, thunderstorms, etc., and in bright 

 weather with an east wind." Nor are 

 the experiences of Mr. Wheeley with 

 Thames trout, with which he has had 

 great success, less varied, since of those 

 fish he has "killed one in a blinding 

 snowstorm and others in blazing sun and 

 clear water." These catches under con- 

 ditions so varied have led him to conclude 

 that the Thames trout may be killed " in 

 all conditions of water and weather, 

 raging flood or summer drought." 



In some waters, at any rate, it looks as 

 if brown trout are scarcely more affected 

 by weather and temperature than their 

 bigger relatives, though their appetites 

 are necessarily affected by either a rise in 

 temperature, which may bring out a 

 hatch of fly, or a shower of rain, which 

 may wash down a harvest of worms. 



