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or even prejudicial, to sport, this melted 

 snow, thickening the water, puts almost 

 all fish off the feed. 



Though the conditions accompanying Snownota 

 snow are more conducive to pleasure b 

 when shooting, those who are willing to 

 face the cold and other discomfort often 

 speak highly of the sport. Colonel 

 Broadfoot has caught trout in the 

 Aberdeenshire Don in a snowstorm in 

 May, and Mr. Smart, writing from Bud- 

 leigh Salterton, has made good baskets 

 in both the Exe and the Otter during 

 a fall of snow in early spring. Mr. Earl 

 Hodgson considers that snow is not in 

 itself adverse to sport, and says that it 

 often falls amid atmospherical conditions 

 favourable to the fisherman. 



One of the most striking cases of a Mr. j. j. 

 good bag made in a heavy snowstorm ^*2|^ ce 

 in the spring fishing on the Aln is com- n & e Aln - 

 municated by Mr. J. J. Hardy, as ex- 

 perienced a fisherman as any in the 

 Border country. He was fishing with 

 his father at Broom Park, and they 



