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caught between them eight or ten dozen 

 trout. " During the morning," he writes, 

 "very few fish would rise, but in the 

 afternoon we had a very severe thunder- 

 storm with snow. During the snowstorm, 

 while the flakes were falling thick on the 

 water, the fish rose madly. It was a 

 most curious incident and made a great 

 impression on me at the time the dense 

 snowstorm wrapping everything in white, 

 the stillness, the oppressive silence, and 

 the two of us catching trout just as fast 

 as we could cast, while our coats were 

 white with clinging snow." 



in Norway Dr. Baker noticed during his fishing 

 n ' excursions in Norway and Lapland that 

 the usual effect of a fall of snow was to 

 put the small trout off the feed, but to 

 bring the larger fish on. " Small fish," 

 he writes, "go down at once. Big fish 

 rise fairly. I got three brown trout, 

 each over 2 Ibs., in half an hour in a 

 snowstorm. I had been getting half- 

 pounders up to the time the storm came 

 on, but they did not rise at all later." 



