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manner in which, for want of broader 

 experience, seventeenth - century angling 

 writers vituperated the east wind, and 

 Mr. Basil Champneys summarises these 

 limitations at some length : 



" Certain general rules have been laid Mr. Basil 

 down, which apply, though with more or 



on 

 less frequent exceptions, to one method fora 



broader 



ot angling and have been taken to cover study of wind 

 all other kinds, to which they are alto- in fishing ' 

 gether inapplicable. Some of these, no 

 doubt, are survivals from an earlier 

 period, when the only mode of fishing in 

 general use was bottom-fishing. On this 

 most of the maxims of Izaak Walton will 

 be found to be based. Such rules as that 

 a south or west wind is favourable, a 

 north or east wind unfavourable, to sport 

 would be applicable mainly to this old- 

 fashioned method, whereas, in the more 

 complex and various methods of fishing 

 now in vogue, many other considerations 

 would have to be taken into account, and 

 the whole subject should now be studied 

 from a more scientific and comprehensive 



