Fowey River, S.S.W. is best of all winds 

 (C. B. R.). Where, as on the Hampshire 

 rivers, which for the most part run N.E. 

 and S.W., it blows upstream, the S.W. 

 wind is, for reasons already explained, 

 preferable to any other, facilitating ease 

 and accuracy of casting, and also thereby 

 assisting the fisherman in rising and hook- 

 ing the trout. Mr. Buxton remarks that 

 " the S.W. wind is unfortunately getting 

 scarcer and scarcer every year. As re- 

 gards pleasure," he adds, "there is no 

 comparison between fishing with an up- 

 stream and downstream wind. On the 

 whole, too, I should say that the fish 

 rise better on the mild or warm day 

 that accompanies a S.W. wind than on 

 the cold and fairly raw day which goes 

 with the N.E. wind." It will not be 

 forgotten that, as quoted earlier in the 

 present chapter, Mr. Buxton himself 

 admits an exception in favour of a wind 

 from a cold quarter under certain con- 

 ditions. 



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