56 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



shore in the open sea in thick water 

 after such disturbances." 



The moral of If the testimony collected in the 

 this book. following chapters may be condensed 

 into one piece of advice it is, that the 

 angler should never be discouraged from 

 trying his luck by any weather condition 

 condemned by the text-books, but should 

 persist in the face of apparently hopeless 

 circumstances. A too careful attention 

 to the face of the sky may at times 

 baulk the over - cautious fisherman of 

 what might, by trusting a little more to 

 luck, have been a red-letter day. In 

 support of this advice the following pages 

 contain many anecdotes, yet none per- 

 haps more striking than the following, for 

 which I am indebted to Mr. Russell. As 

 it concerns so eminent a fisherman as the 

 late Francis Francis, it may possibly have 

 appeared in print elsewhere ; if so, I 

 reproduce it here with apologies. Mr. 

 Francis was fishing Loch Lomond with 

 Mr. Brown, late Secretary of the Loch 



