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" On the 30th March 1891," writes Curious 

 Sir Douglas Brooke, "the water was 

 dead low. A very cold N.E. wind was Brooke 

 blowing, and there were constant showers 

 of hail and snow. I had to go to a small 

 river (in Co. Fermanagh) some few miles 

 away, to settle a dispute between two 

 tenants, which had arisen over the river 

 having slightly altered its course during 

 the winter floods. I took a rod with me, 

 more to give myself something to do as I 

 walked up the river than in any expecta- 

 tion of catching fish. However, I had 

 the best afternoon I ever had on that 

 river, killing twenty-six fish. They rose 

 freely and boldly to a March Brown, but 

 there was no sign of any natural fly on 

 the water." 



Sir George Brown remembers, while other 



fishing in Gloucestershire, on the little "" 



in 



stream which runs through Stroud, snowstorms. 

 meeting a man who had had an excellent 

 day's sport the previous Friday during 

 a severe snowstorm. Colonel Cornwallis 

 West has caught trout in the Dee (near 



