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over the fishing is often better than it 

 was before the storm. This I recently 

 found to be the case in the Blackwater, 

 where, directly after a thunderstorm, 

 I killed three good salmon. I have 

 found much the same to be the case 

 in India." 



More unusual is it to catch fish in that 

 state of impending storm of which gillies 

 in some districts speak as " fire in the air." 

 Even with the atmosphere in this electri- 

 cal condition, however, my correspondence 

 contains cases of sport. The following 

 are cases in point : 



"My general experience of spring in Canada? 

 salmon in Scotland," wrote the late Sir 

 Clinton Dawkins, " was that no fish would 

 take in thundery weather. But I am 

 bound to say that the last time I killed 

 a salmon (in the Ristagouche, Eastern 

 Canada) I found the fish rising freely in 

 close, thundery weather. I do not know 

 whether this is peculiar to Canada." 



"I caught a salmon this year (1905) on 

 a ' Wilkinson ' fly just before a thunder- 



