OF THUNDER & LIGHTNING 209 



I. SALMON AND SEA-TROUT 



With few exceptions, those who have 

 given evidence on the relations between 

 thunder and fishing are agreed that the 

 menace of the storm rather than the 

 storm itself is the deterrent. 



" Thunder," writes Sir John Edwards- Salmon rise 

 Moss, " seems to keep fish down till the 



storm fairly breaks ; then they will often 

 rise. ... I have caught a salmon and 

 played him while I could see it lightning 

 and hear it thundering over a hill some 

 three miles away." 



Mr. Gilbert Coleridge contributes an 

 experience in some ways similar. 



" It is," he writes, " a common opinion in the 

 that fish will not take a fly when thunder Torridon; 

 is in the air, but I once experienced a 

 notable exception to this rule. I had 

 just begun to fish a pool in the Torridon 

 when two or three brilliant flashes of 

 lightning began to play about the top of 

 the hills in full view of the pool, accom- 

 panied by loud peals of thunder and 



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