Educated If one rule seems more reasonable than 



trout more ot ] iers j t j s t j iat educated trout in much- 



susceptible to 



weather than fished waters are far more sensitive to 

 weather influences than those which know 

 little of the ways of man. It will not 

 escape notice in the following chapters 

 that the fish of the Thames, Tweed, Tay, 

 and other much -flogged waters are far 

 more influenced by weather than those of 

 more isolated districts. Major Boulton 

 mentions a case of the close relations that 

 exist between fishing and the weather in 

 the island of North Uist, the highly 

 educated trout of which are peculiarly 

 susceptible to such influences, while 

 Colonel Cornwallis West contrasts the 

 educated trout of Hampshire chalk- 

 streams with the unsophisticated fish of 

 Welsh rivers, and points out that the 

 latter are little affected by the weather. 

 The comparative insensibility of unedu- 

 cated trout to changes of the weather is 

 also noted by Sir Henry Seton-Karr, who, 

 during his experiences in the Western 

 States of America, had exceptional oppor- 



