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These are some among many opinions 

 adverse to fog. 



II. CASES OF SUCCESS 



On the other hand, my correspondence 

 contains several evidences of success with 

 trout, salmon, grayling and roach, though 

 in the case of the first two these are 

 evidently regarded by the fishermen 

 themselves as exceptions to the rule. 



Only two praise fog in general terms, 

 and that only when it is lifting, or broken 

 by gleams of sunshine. Captain Edg- 

 worth-Johnstone writes in praise of such 

 a condition on Donegal waters, and Mr. 

 Gallichan considers fog less depressing 

 to fish when it occurs during a frost, 

 with sunshine faintly visible through it. 



There are not in the whole correspond- 

 ence more than three or four actual records 

 of good baskets of trout in foggy weather. 

 Sir James Fergusson has " known a great 

 basket of trout caught in a fog, in a 

 loch where the trout are often very shy." 



