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same subject : " When the thick mists of 

 autumn steal over the land, the theory 

 is that fishing is no good. On several 

 occasions this has been proved erroneous 

 in the case of grayling. In the early 

 morning, too, before the watery vapour 

 has risen off the water, grayling have 

 been caught with the sunk fly." Mr. 

 Marston also has known grayling (and 

 trout) rise on misty evenings in the 

 Itchen, when at times it was impossible 

 to see more than thirty or forty yards 

 over the water. 



also roach. The roach is another fish which is even 



said to feed keenly during a fog. Several 

 writers allude to this peculiarity of roach. 

 "On the Norfolk Broads," writes Mr. 

 Gallichan, "the 'water -smoke,' which 

 rises suddenly, sometimes in the middle 

 of a warm day, does not appear to affect 

 bream and roach." Mr. Marston re- 

 members catching roach as fast as he 

 could land them when the fog was so 

 thick that he could only just see his float. 

 Mr. Rolt also notes that roach bite keenly 



