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weather, of which he has both heard and 

 read ; but, even so, he feels bound to 

 regard fog less as the actual cause of 

 trout not feeding than as the symptom of 

 the cause. 



One view, by no means unpopular Mr. SheUd 

 with trout-fishermen, is that the baneful and th f r % 



on eltects or 



effects of fog are almost wholly a matter col d mist. 

 of a fall in the temperature. "Fog or 

 mist," writes Mr. Sheild, "is fatal to 

 trout fishing, especially when the atmo- 

 sphere is cold. Every practical trout- 

 fisherman knows how trout never rise 

 well in lakes when the hills are shrouded 

 in mist. And in that most enjoyable 

 sport, night-fishing for trout in June or 

 July, the advent of a mist on the river 

 will stop the most furious sport as if by 

 magic." 



Major Wynn Eyton also attributes 

 the slackness of the trout to the sudden 

 fall in temperature, in support of which 

 view he remarks that "even the light 

 evening mists, that rise over the water 

 on summer evenings, put the fish down 



