176 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



point of view, when it will be found that 

 the effect of weather upon sport will vary 

 not merely with the kind of fish, but with 

 the nature of its chief food, with the state 

 of the water, the direction of the current, 

 and other conditions too numerous to 

 specify." 



Writing generally as to the best 

 wind for dry-fly fishing, Mr. Champneys 

 continues : 



"To secure the natural appearance of 

 the fly against a strong downstream wind 

 is almost an impossibility, and the dry- 

 fly fisherman will probably prefer to take 

 his chance of an upstream breeze from 

 the quarters generally considered un- 

 favourable, viz. north or east, rather than 

 of a downstream wind from a quarter 

 usually held to be more conducive to 

 sport. But for dry-fly or wet, this 

 ordinary division between favourable and 

 unfavourable quarters requires some 

 degree of revision. It is not, in fact, 

 so much a question of the quarter from 

 which the wind happens to be blowing at 



