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other Lord Granby takes the less hopeful 



" view that thunder usually puts all trout 

 off their feed, though he has known occa- 

 sions when a storm has raged and trout 

 have risen simultaneously. As in the 

 case of salmon, trout, though as a rule 

 slack just before a storm, will often feed 

 well while it is in progress. " Thunder in 

 the air," the late Canon Beechey wrote to 

 me a few weeks before his death, " is fatal 

 to success in fly -fishing for trout, but 

 when the storm breaks, the rise is often 

 furious." Of brown trout in Norway 

 and Lapland, Dr. Baker writes : " No rise 

 takes place while the storm is pending. 

 Directly the storm breaks, the rise begins 

 vigorously." "Before thunder," writes 

 Mr. Russell, "when the atmosphere is 

 charged with electricity, trout do not take 

 a fly well, but during a thunder-rain on 

 one occasion I had the best rise of trout 

 almost that I ever remember seeing." 

 Major Godley, on the other hand, has 

 found that trout " generally rise immedi- 

 ately before a thunderstorm," a most 



