Seasonable 

 cold not 

 prejudicial. 



been has been dispelled by the mid-day 

 sun." Lord Wolverton regards frost in 

 early morning, say up to about 11 A.M., 

 as excellent, but he considers that it is 

 against sport when it lasts all day. 



" I am never," writes Colonel St. Leger 

 Moore of the rivers of Leinster, " able to 

 kill fish when the frost is on the ground, 

 and things are white with it, or in a thick, 

 frosty fog ; but I have killed fish when the 

 frost was going." 



" Salmon," writes Colonel Caldwell, 

 "do not take well in the morning till 

 any hoar-frost on the grass has melted." 



It will have been noted just above 

 that one correspondent referred to spring 

 frosts as not conducive to sport. Mr. 

 Earl Hodgson, on the other hand, regards 

 these seasonable frosts in the early part 

 of the year as by no means unfavourable 

 to sport. Only unseasonable cold, he 

 says, acts adversely to the fisherman's 

 interests. " Early in spring," he writes, 

 "when frost occurs, it is usually among 

 the conditions which are favourable, and 



