174 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



Sir Henry 

 Pottinger's 

 opinion. 



places as far apart as Melbourne and 

 Gibraltar. So good a sportsman as Sir 

 Henry Pottinger, while bound to admit 

 extenuating circumstances, gives it no 

 quarter. " Is there/' he asks, " a fly-fisher 

 for either salmon or trout who does not 

 hate the east wind ? In trout fishing it 

 may, I think, be regarded as almost fatal 

 to sport, that is to say, the genuine bitter 

 E. or N.E. wind so characteristic of an 

 English spring, accompanied by black 

 and gloomy skies. There is a mitigated 

 form of east wind in summer, nearly soft, 

 and far less deadly an enemy. Salmon 

 are less affected by it, I think, than trout. 

 In Norway, at all events, I have had 

 good sport with a cold E. wind blowing 

 all the time I was fishing. In pike 

 fishing, the bitter N.E. wind is said, 

 probably with truth, to help any angler 

 bold enough to face it, as witness 

 Kingsley's fine lines : 



f . . . hunger into madness 

 Every plunging pike.' " 



Reference was made above to the 



