heaviest and strongest hatch of fly, and 

 that the fish, perhaps invigorated and 

 braced, will occasionally rise best with 

 the N.E. wind, though the casting is 

 thereby rendered more difficult." 



Major Boulton, though regarding a 

 due E. wind as hopeless, remembers a 

 spell of N.E. wind in which he had one 

 of his best days with salmon in the Outer 

 Hebrides. On that occasion he hooked 

 no fewer than fourteen fish in a little 

 over three hours. 



Conflicting The wind from due north is regarded 

 opinions. with m i ng i e a feelings. On the Exe 



and Otter it is always considered bad. 

 It is bad for salmon fishing in the Tay 

 (W. O. D.), but fair for fishing in 

 Donegal if not too harsh (W. E.-J.), 

 for brown trout in Norway and Lapland 

 (H. B. B.), and for a loch near Edinburgh, 

 which lies E. and W. (A. W. B.). For 

 fishing in Lough Conn it is exceptionally 

 good (J. J. D.). 



To N.W. wind the only important 

 reference in the whole of my correspond- 



