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the sea, it blows milder than on the west, 

 or in salt water on the west side, where it 

 gives calm seas, or for bass off Brixham, 

 where it imparts a desirable curl to the 

 waves of Torbay, would pooh-pooh Master 

 Chetham's alleged malignity and make him 

 a present of the wind from any other 

 quarter. 



It was unreservedly condemned by 

 many of the older angling writers, but it 

 must be borne in mind that their stand- 

 point was in most cases limited by a very 

 narrow horizon, since many of them knew 

 only the south-country streams. 



There are, no doubt, localities in which Prejudice 

 an east wind puts fish off the feed. 

 Nevertheless, much of the prejudice 

 which exists against it is a matter of 

 tradition rather than of actual experience. 

 This attitude on the part of fishermen 

 may in part be accounted for by the 

 depressing influence which this wind has 

 on many people, notably on those subject 

 to neuralgia, whom I have known to 

 suffer acutely during its prevalence in 



