162 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



Gawthorne, writing of the Avon at Salis- 

 bury, regards snow-broth as fatal to pike, 

 and Mr. Wheeley has no better opinion 

 of it in respect of roach. "I have," he 

 writes with reference to this matter, " had 

 good bags of roach, with snow actually 

 falling, but when the snow has melted 

 and run into the river, never." 



"When," writes Mr. Coleridge, "the 

 water of the Torridon is blue and clear 

 from snow melting off the hills, fishing is 

 usually hopeless." 



" I myself," says Lord Breadalbane, 

 "never had a really good day's fishing 

 when snow has come into the river and 

 the river has been rising by it alone. . . . 

 This I have noticed frequently in Loch 

 Tay." 



Touching It is not always easy to determine from 



a brief account of a particular experience 

 whether there was actually snow in the 

 water or not. Thus, regarding mahseer, 

 General Morton says that these fish are 

 supposed by the natives to sicken in 

 snow-water, and he adds that when it is 



