Many of those who recognise that 

 bright sun is more often than not a 

 handicap are able to quote exceptions 

 from their own experiences. 



A blazing day Sir Herbert Maxwell, for instance, can 

 recall a day on the Tweed (29th Oct. 

 1891), with blazing sun, low water, and 

 hard frost. So brilliant was the light 

 that he could see fish lying in the Craig- 

 over Pool at Mertoun, and of his own 

 uninfluenced judgment he would in all 

 probability have left them where they 

 lay, thinking any endeavour to move 

 them hopeless. But his boatman per- 

 suaded him to put a small fly over them 

 on a very long line, with the result that 

 he hooked three fish and landed two, 

 respectively 18 Ibs. and 16 Ibs. He also 

 remembers the unexpected happening 

 with trout, and an odd big fish coming 

 to the creel in a blazing noon of summer 

 sunshine on a loch a state of things in 

 which he would ordinarily counsel put- 

 ting off fishing operations until nightfall. 



Mr. Coleridge contributes an interest- 



