EDITOR'S PREFACE 



Ix view of the meagre space allotted by 

 the majority of angling writers l to con- 

 siderations of wind and weather in their 

 bearing on sport, an attempt has been 

 made to obtain some expression of 

 opinion, based on long and varied ex- 

 perience, from rather more than a 

 hundred anglers of recognised qualifi- 

 cations for answering such an inquiry. 



As the result of the uniform kindness 

 with which my questions were answered, 

 a mass of information, anecdote, and 

 opinion soon became available, and this is 



1 Mr. W. Earl Hodgson's Trout Fishing and the second 

 edition of Mr. Rolfs book on the grayling are notable 

 exceptions to the general rule, 

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