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those correspondents who favour snow for 

 salmon fishing. Colonel St. Leger Moore 

 contributes the following strange experi- 

 ence of salmon in a snowstorm : 



" In March 1893 I went down to the A snowstorm 

 Slaney, which was high and coloured, and 

 as I was putting up my rod it began to 

 snow. The wind was in the north and 

 rather high, and the day was very cold. 

 I put on the casting-line and left it to soak 

 in the water while I took refuge under a 

 big rock. After half an hour or so, as it 

 was snowing worse than ever, I got tired 

 of sitting down, and thought that I would 

 try a few casts to warm me. I took up 

 the rod, let out a few yards of line, and 

 cast out towards a rock opposite. I had 

 only a very short line, but I saw a fish 

 come with a boil at the fly, found I was 

 in him, and killed him. Lower down 

 the pool I got another, and altogether I 

 took four clean-fish (besides three kelts, 

 which I returned) in one of the worst 

 snowstorms I ever was out in in this 

 country, and went home at 3 P.M." 



