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side, but those who find their pleasure in 

 its capture will note that more than one 

 correspondent draws attention to the fact 

 that thunder is good for eels. 

 Fog and The personal discomfort (which in 

 country like the Devonshire moorland 

 becomes actual danger) of going fishing 

 in a fog is so obvious as to need no 

 comment. What concerns us more 

 closely in the present volume is the direct 

 influence of fogs and mists on fishing. 

 Mist on the hills is, according to the 

 evidence given in Chapter VI., generally 

 fatal to sport, whether in the salmon-pools 

 of the Aberdeenshire Dee or Argyllshire 

 Awe, on the Torridon, on the Itchen, or 

 on the lakes of Norway. Yet, during a 

 foggy October morning on the Spey, Sir 

 Ford North caught two salmon in three- 

 quarters of an hour, and, coming to coarse- 

 fishing, Mr. R. B. Marston recalls having 

 on one occasion caught roach as fast as he 

 could land them, though the fog was so 

 dense at the time that he could hardly see 

 his float. Mr. Basil Champneys regards 



