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Lomond Angling Association, and one 

 day, when the sky was flecked with 

 white clouds, and a cold, hard wind 

 blew on the surface of the loch, they 

 agreed that fishing under such conditions 

 would be folly, and therefore stayed 

 away from the water. Other anglers, 

 with less experience to warn them, went 

 forth, in spite of conditions obviously 

 unfavourable to expert eyes, and though 

 no trout (the chief fish of the loch, and 

 the one, no doubt, to which Mr. Francis's 

 doubts referred) were caught, it proved 

 to be one of the best salmon days of the 

 season. This little story illustrates at once 

 the importance of the fisherman trying 

 his luck in all weathers and the indiffer- 

 ence of salmon to conditions of wind and 

 weather that adversely affect trout. The 

 fact is, the angler never knows his luck 

 on even the most unpromising of days. 

 The Bishop Suffragan of Swansea, who 

 has fished these thirty years in the Towy 

 and other Welsh rivers, tells me that his 

 best salmon, a 24 Ib. fish, was hooked 



