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" Anyhow, I made what would have 

 been a big bag on this reach during the 

 cream of the season, and what for August 

 was remarkable, i.e. 15 fish weighing 21 

 Ibs., besides putting back six and being 

 broken by four. That this success was 

 almost entirely, if not wholly, due to 

 luck and not to skill was shown by the 

 result of the following day's fishing. The 

 east wind had by then changed to a 

 blustering and rather cold south-west 

 wind, and, though I lost several fish, I 

 killed only two (in the morning) and 

 neither of them large. Further, the fish 

 on the first day took boldly and were all 

 well hooked ; indeed, I did not lose one, 

 except those that broke me. But on the 

 second day they rose gingerly, and either 

 failed to hook at all, or were so lightly 

 hooked that most of them soon came 

 unfastened. I do not and cannot 

 attempt to account for the extraordinary 



in that district during an evening E. wind after a hot mid- 

 summer's day. Here also, perhaps, as in Mr. Buxton's 

 experience, is the result of a bracing breeze after a day of 

 enervating heat. 



