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inches thick." General Dalton writes : 

 "In a loch I have had fine sport with 

 salmon in snowstorms and frost, when my 

 line was freezing so hard that it would 

 scarcely run through the rings, but this 

 was 'harling' and not casting. After a 

 frosty night," he adds, " salmon seldom rise 

 early." Mr. Barrington also recollects 

 catching salmon when the top-ring of the 

 rod had to be warmed to prevent its being 

 choked with ice. Mr. Conner writes that, 

 after an October frost, salmon may be 

 killed in the Bandon River, in low water, 

 with the shrimp and also, he thinks, with 

 the fly. In spring, on the other hand, 

 he does not think fish take well after frost. 



'As has been said above, whatever may The passing 

 be the opinion of anglers as to sport 

 during actual frost, there seems no doubt 

 that the chances are good when it is 

 going, as, for instance, in the afternoon 

 of a mild day following a hard frost 

 overnight. Thus, Lord Granby is of 

 opinion that it is useless to go after 

 trout " until any frost there may have 



