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a rock, when I saw a fish turn under 

 my fly. I cast again, rose, hooked and 

 eventually landed him. I then went on 

 down the pool, and at the tail of it I 

 killed another fish after a good fight. In 

 the stream below, I hooked and lost a 

 third fish. All this time the thunder was 

 crashing overhead. The storm ceased 

 just after, and I did not get another 

 fish till quite late in the evening. I had 

 always previously thought that it was 

 utterly useless fishing in a thunderstorm." 



Other experiences of salmon caught in in the North 

 thunderstorms are communicated by Sir 

 Ford North and Mr. Bagot, the latter 

 remembering one of the best afternoons 

 of salmon fishing in the North Tyne that 

 he ever enjoyed, during a heavy thunder- 

 storm near the end of September. Sir 

 Ford North's memories of success under 

 such conditions include days on the Irish 

 Erne and Spey. " One day," he writes 

 with reference to the former river, "a 

 violent thunderstorm came up, with ex- 

 treme darkness ; and while the thunder 



