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disparity of the two days a disparity 

 which would not so much have surprised 

 me if the result had been reversed. 



" On another day, earlier in the year, 

 on the Beane, with the Mayfly up, though 

 rather over, I found on arrival a heavy N.E. 

 wind, with rain, and, though I prowled 

 about for some considerable time, I saw 

 not a single fly nor a rising fish, and gave 

 it up as hopeless." 

 East wind It has been noted that on Loch Leven 



favourable on d ^ Tweed an east wmd is favourable 



east coast 



rivers. to sport. The late Canon Beechey told 



me that when he fished the latter river 

 somewhat regularly every spring during 

 the seventies, east wind was considered 

 the very best. Wherever it is an up- 

 stream wind (i.e. on rivers flowing east- 

 ward) the same rule obtains with very 

 few exceptions, of which, however, the 

 Aberdeenshire Dee must be regarded as 

 one (R. T. C.). Such rivers are the 

 Haddingtonshire Tyne, on which it is 

 excellent (R. N.), and the Bandon, of 

 which Mr. Conner writes : " Apart from 



