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storm, but I have myself always found 

 that it puts the fish down, and that even 

 in thundery weather, without an actual 

 storm, it is very difficult to get rises. 

 After the storm has completely passed 

 away, fish will sometimes begin to take 

 quite freely." 



In most of the chapters in this book 

 the reader will find, and, after reading the 

 Introduction, will have been prepared to 

 find, considerable divergence of opinion, 

 but in no case perhaps is this conflict of 

 evidence more striking than in respect 

 of thunderstorms, to which some of my 

 correspondents seem indifferent, others 

 actively hostile, while a few have in 

 special cases had to thank them for 

 better sport than they ever enjoyed in 

 the same water under more enjoyable 

 conditions of weather. 



