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gather, a very low temperature may not 

 affect the appetite of the fish unfavourably. 

 Grayling and chub appear to feed eagerly 

 in frosty weather, and salmon are often 

 caught freely on days that follow nights 

 of frost. Barbel, on the other hand, are 

 rarely taken at all during wintry weather ; 

 and bream, though they may be creeled 

 on mild days in the depth of winter, are 

 also essentially summer and autumn fish. 

 As regards snow, an actual fall seems less 

 prejudicial to all manner of fishing than 

 melting snow, or "snow-broth," in the 

 water. The evil effects of this melted 

 snow cannot be a mere question of low 

 temperature, since a sharp frost may do 

 nothing to impede the capture of the very 

 fish that sulk in pools tainted with the 

 "broth." Success in actual snowstorms, Cases of good 

 though chiefly noted in salmon fishing, is *?n 

 also recorded with sea -trout, Thames broth -" 

 trout, brown trout, grayling, and roach. 

 Even to the general rule of snow-broth 

 being fatal to sport there are exceptions, 

 for Mr. Rolt says that grayling will some- 



