236 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



Sir Thomas Esmonde has " often killed 

 trout in the evening, with a slight mist 

 on the water " ; and Mr. Noble re- 

 members on one occasion filling his 

 basket in the Haddingtonshire Tyne, 

 fishing from 11 P.M. until daybreak, with 

 a thick Scotch mist about. 



These are meagre evidences of good 

 sport with trout in a fog, out of over 

 eighty letters that make some reference 

 to that condition of weather, and it is 

 perhaps reasonable to conclude that it 

 militates against sport with this fish more 

 even than with most others. 



with salmon. Not that there is much evidence of 

 salmon taking in foggy weather, but in 

 two cases the success was so marked that 

 lack of it may be rather due to unwilling- 

 ness of fishermen to fare forth under such 

 miserable conditions, which are, moreover, 

 traditionally associated with bad luck, 

 than to actual slackness of the salmon. 

 Thus, Sir Colman Rashleigh actually 

 remembers having made some of his best 

 catches in the Fowey River on still, foggy 



