212 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



in the Spey 



in the 

 Blackwater 



was pealing very loudly overhead, but 

 without rain, I hooked and landed two 

 fine salmon. So far as I could judge, I 

 might have continued fishing with equal 

 success, but that the rain suddenly came 

 down in torrents, and from that time not 

 a fish would stir. I had," he adds, "a 

 similar experience on the Spey, except 

 that on that occasion the rain came down 

 in torrents while I was landing my first 

 fish." This distinction between wet and 

 dry storms is of still more importance in 

 the case of trout, which, being more con- 

 cerned than salmon with the food-supplies, 

 are supposed to be affected by coming 

 storms owing to their anticipation of rain 

 and fresh stores of worms. 



The foregoing cases of salmon caught 

 during the raging of the storm were in 

 accord with what has already been said 

 of the fish rising under such conditions. 

 Much more common is success immedi- 

 ately after the storm is over. " I have," 

 writes Colonel Deane, "found thunder 

 affect fishing everywhere, and when it is 



