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exception of carp and bream, are sleepy 

 on the hottest days between 11 A.M. and 

 6 P.M. 



" I believe," writes Sir John Edwards- 

 Moss, "that salmon are very much influ- 

 enced by temperature. See how they lie 

 in the stream in hot weather and right 

 down at the still tails of the pools in very 

 cold water. Also note how they will take 

 a huge fly in very cold water and require 

 a tiny one to move them in very hot 

 weather." 



Major Eyton thinks that trout "are importance 

 more affected as to their appetites by 



temperature than by actual weather, and being higher 



than tempera- 



it does not seem that any hard and fast ture of air. 

 rule can be made in either case. For 

 instance, a good many years ago I was 

 fishing the River Bride (Co. Water- 

 ford). The first day (3rd April) it was 

 snowing hard nearly all day, but I caught, 

 with the artificial fly, twenty-seven brown 

 trout, weighing 1 1 Ibs. 3 oz. : flies, March 

 Brown, Hare's Ear, and February Red. 

 Next day, very fine and warm ; no rise, 



