16 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



afforded much sport, besides welcome 

 food for a hungry camp. The only 

 weather condition that seriously affected 

 the rise was, so far as my experience and 

 observation went, the temperature. The 

 brighter and hotter the sun, the more 

 lively and voracious as a rule were the 

 trout. When the cool of the evening 

 came on, particularly in September, the 

 rise usually ceased." 



Mr. w. Earl From these evidences, with others to 

 n be adduced in subsequent chapters, it is 

 obvious that hard and fast rules are 

 foreign to the subject of the present 

 inquiry, and these instances have been 

 cited at the outset with a view to laying 

 stress on the absence of dogma from this 

 attempt to review our present knowledge 

 of the meaning of weather and tempera- 

 ture to the fisherman. Indeed Mr. W. 

 Earl Hodgson, whose charming work 

 on Trout Fishing has already been men- 

 tioned as devoting exceptional attention 

 to the subject of the weather, is of opinion 

 that not one of the conditions which give 



