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Chapter I.) in favour of alternate dull sky Advantage 

 and gleams of sun ; and that veteran 

 sportsman, Sir Henry Pottinger, with rain- 

 characteristic reluctance to dogmatise, 

 suggests the broader application of a 

 similar rule in respect of rain. 



" In dry, hot weather," he writes, " a 

 heavy shower, without thunder, will 

 often bring trout up and set them feed- 

 ing briskly, and, on the other hand, 

 a gleam of sunshine, occurring on a 

 dull, depressing day, will have an 

 exactly similar effect. Ideal 'fishermen's 

 weather,' therefore, would seem to consist 

 in a happy alternation of blue skies with 

 sunshine and clouds with rain. But I 

 repeat that the experience of anglers is so 

 infinitely varied inasmuch as success is 

 often attained under conditions apparently 

 the most adverse, while failure as often 

 results under those that seem most 

 favourable that any attempt to be 

 dogmatic on the subject would be absurd." 



