230 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



Experience of 



Welsh 



fishermen. 



Mr. Earl 



Hodgson's 



view. 



film has formed on the surface of the 

 water. Fishing wet, on the other hand, 

 in which the drowned fly must resemble 

 an aquatic larva, he has more than once 

 succeeded in making a good bag of trout 

 in a dense fog. 



Intelligible as this distinction unques- 

 tionably is, it is not to be denied that 

 there are cases in which even a sunk bait 

 is rejected of trout while fog is about. 

 Welsh fishermen told Mr. Gallichan, 

 who has done much fishing in the 

 Principality, that they found it difficult, 

 if not impossible, to make a basket of 

 trout with worm, once the mist descended 

 more than halfway down the slopes of 

 the hills. This would seem to indicate 

 that mist on the mountain-tops is power- 

 less to affect the rise, but such is not the 

 case elsewhere. 



Of the adverse influence of fog on the 

 fisherman's catch, Mr. Earl Hodgson 

 takes his customary "symptomatic" view. 

 Personally, he admits having invariably 

 failed to make the good baskets in foggy 



