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sea-trout in very heavy rain during a 

 couple of hours' fishing on Lake Devor- 

 gana, near Waterville, Co. Kerry ; and 

 Mr. Bryden remembers, as far back as 

 1874, a day of torrential rain on Loch 

 Tummel, when he and a friend made a 

 fine bag of trout. 



Experience of Perhaps, however, the most remarkable 

 experience of lake-fishing in rain is that 

 communicated by Mr. Marmaduke Sheild 

 as an experience of his own on Lake 

 Beoraik, Inverness-shire. He relates it 

 as follows : 



" When the water is strongly dimpled 

 by heavy rain, the fish may tempor- 

 arily go mad, and phenomenal baskets 

 may then be made. I have experienced 

 this in Loch Leven and elsewhere. An 

 extraordinary instance is as follows. Many 

 years ago, one hot August day, I was 

 staying at Meoble Forest, Inverness-shire, 

 and as the day was hot and sultry, and 

 seemed hopeless for fishing, I determined 

 to accompany the shepherds in their large 

 boat to see them collect the sheep. We 



