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heavy rain. I was beginning to fear lest 

 my rod should attract the lightning, and 

 was going to leave off and take shelter, 

 when a salmon rose and took my fly. 

 Then, perhaps rashly, I decided to take 

 my risk of being struck, and I soon landed 

 my fish. I have never, before or since, 

 heard of fish taking in like circumstances, 

 for the flashes were most brilliant, and 

 the thunder very loud, coming from steep 

 precipices that almost overhang the pool." 

 Colonel St. Leger Moore had, while 

 fishing the Slaney, an experience, if 

 anything, still more remarkable of catch- 

 ing salmon in a storm. 



in the "In April 1886," he writes, "I was 



ney; fishing the river Slaney, of which I 

 rent a considerable stretch, in apparently 

 perfect fishing weather, the river itself 

 being in good order and colour. I had 

 only risen one fish up to 1.30 P.M., when 

 black clouds came over the sky and 

 enormous spots of rain began to fall, and 

 a baddish thunderstorm broke. I was 

 reeling in my line, intending to get under 



