82 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



In the first of these cases, it will be 

 noticed that the sun was behind the 

 fisherman and that the water was both 

 deep and dirty. On the second occasion, 

 he had the sun in front, and the water 

 was shallow and clear. These details are 

 of importance in the light of what has 

 gone before. 



another on Sir Thomas Esmonde recollects on one 



" occasion killing six or seven dozen brown 

 trout on the Bann River, near Gorey, 

 one day in March, in bright sunshine and 

 a north wind. There are, in fact, numer- 

 ous instances of success in sunshine. The 

 late Canon Beechey wrote to me not long 

 before his death that, while he considered 

 a bright day, with blue sky and roving 

 wool-pack clouds, the very worst for fly- 

 fishing, he had known other anglers, 

 fishing in some favoured spot, do well 

 under such conditions. Sir James Fergus- 

 son has more than once, to his own sur- 

 prise, with fine tackle and small flies, 

 caught salmon on sunny days, with little 

 breeze, and Mr. Sheild has also taken 



