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east side, who have to fish downstream 

 with a salmon-rod. Finally, it may be 

 observed that, in the East Anglian fishery 

 referred to, it is possible at all times to 

 fish nearly half its available length against 

 the wind, which eddies remarkably in the 

 valley crowned with woods. The fish, 

 however, do not seem to rise in this false 

 current with much spirit, even when 

 it does not make the water too rough 

 for dry-fly work." Mr. Earl Hodgson 

 offers the following intelligible explana- 

 tion why the east wind should be less 

 prejudicial to sport on the east side : 

 " Trout in waters near the east coast are 

 not always, as those in the midlands and 

 west often are, put down by the east wind. 

 This I attribute to the fact that in day- 

 time throughout the season the wind is 

 usually from the sea, land conducting heat 

 more readily than water ; and that thus, 

 near the east coast, an east wind in day- 

 time is a normal condition, to which the 

 fish are adapted." This recalls Colonel 

 Bairnsfather's " normal weather " theory. 



