44 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



Hebrides, hooked no fewer than fourteen 

 in a little over three hours' fishing. 

 Touching trout, so high an authority on 

 dry-fly fishing as Mr. Sydney Buxton has 

 noticed "that the fish, perhaps invigorated 

 and braced, will occasionally rise best 

 with the N.E. wind, though casting is 

 thereby rendered more difficult." 



It is the winds from the south or west, 

 or any point between the two, that have 

 the warmest advocates among fishermen, 

 who only favour the colder blasts under 

 exceptional circumstances. 



Thunder and With thunder, as with rain, a distinc- 

 tion must be drawn between a storm 

 actually in progress and another which 

 threatens but may not burst in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the water 

 fished. Mr. Hall's experience of Norfolk 

 trout, unable to distinguish between the 

 two conditions, has previously been noticed. 

 As a general rule, and one with perhaps 

 fewer exceptions than most of the rules 

 formulated in these pages, it may be taken 

 that most fish decline to feed when there 



