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"Provided the river is not in flood, and 

 given the presence of fish in season and 

 stream enough to carry the fly, no 

 weather conditions should altogether 

 damp the ardour or destroy the hope 

 of the salmon-fisherman." 



The undoubted weather -lore of trout, 

 at any rate in some localities, is an 

 additional argument in favour of remain- 

 ing by the waterside, since, even if the 

 conditions be unfavourable at the moment, 

 the sensitive fish may be aware of a 

 coming change for the better, unsus- 

 pected by the fisherman, and feed accord- 

 ingly just when he would by all his rules 

 expect them most to sulk. As Major 

 Wynn Eyton says : " Trout may have 

 certain times and conditions for feeding, 

 but a sudden change in the weather may 

 upset the rule." Any sort of change, in 

 fact, may bring luck to the salmon-angler. 

 Mr. Conner relates how, on a dull, cloudy 

 day in July, on the Bandon River an 

 abrupt change after a bright, dry spell, 

 with no fish taking five fish were 



