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in foggy weather, " though," as he quaintly 

 adds, " fishing when the end of the roach- 

 pole can scarcely be seen is hardly an 

 exhilarating amusement." Mr. Matthews 

 recalls an even yet more striking success 

 with roach in a fog so dense that, while 

 fishing, he could hear other anglers talking, 

 but was unable to see them. It was 

 in the river Colne, and on this occasion he 

 left Waterloo with a number of members 

 of the Piscatorial Society in a typical 

 London fog, and the party caught over 

 1 00 Ibs. of roach. 



Writing of the effect of fog on coarse Mr. 

 fish, Mr. Sheringham distinguishes be- 

 tween harmless morning mist, on the and evening 



mist. 



melting of which, about 5.30 A.M., the 

 fish feed greedily, from evening mist, 

 which he considers fatal to all non- 

 migratory fish. The summer mist of the 

 moorland Mr. Sheringham regards as 

 practically a form of rain, and, as such, 

 in no way prejudicial to trout fishing 

 in those localities where it occurs. 



Mr. Rolt's remark above, touching the 



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