48 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



fish can at one time or another be caught 

 in practically any weather. " Not one of 

 the conditions that you name," writes Mr. 

 Gathorne-Hardy, " would keep me from 

 the riverside if the water were in order." 

 It may therefore occur to the reader to 

 ask : What day, then, is really bad for 

 fishing ? " Apart from the intermittent 

 appetite of a trout," writes Sir Henry 

 Seton-Karr, as if in answer to the question, 

 " the usually accepted adverse conditions 

 are a bright sun, and, if on a lake, smooth 

 water, also east wind or thunderstorms." 

 Yet, as will be shown, not one of these 

 real or supposed drawbacks is without its 

 exceptions. Frankly, the fisherman's bad 

 day is just the day on which he cannot 

 catch any fish, neither more nor less. It 

 has, we shall perceive, nothing whatever 

 to do with the bad days of other folks. 

 Indeed, what other people call bad 

 weather may seem ideal to the fisherman. 

 Colonel Deane and others, who like a 

 perfect gale for lake-fishing, would hardly 

 find the ordinary tourist of their opinion, 



