242 FISHERMEN'S WEATHER 



Discomfort lack of exhilaration in fishing for roach 

 weather m a thick fog, brings us appropriately, at 

 the conclusion of the book, back to the 

 programme that bad weather would be 

 discussed without any regard for its con- 

 nection with the sportsman's discomfort. 

 The horrors of the British climate have 

 been contemplated in the foregoing pages 

 from the standpoint of fishes rather than 

 from that of men. Indifference to unspeak- 

 able weather is among the keen fisherman's 

 pronounced eccentricities. Those, in fact, 

 who are not prepared to bear a good deal 

 of discomfort from this source will hardly 

 find outdoor sport of any kind to their 

 liking within the limits of the British 

 Isles. 



Moral of the To those, however, who snap their 

 fingers at torrid sun or pouring rain, who 

 laugh at the sting of hailstones or the bite 

 of frost, who reck not of the danger from 

 lightning or from fog, this book offers 

 one advice, and that is, that they should 

 never despair of good sport under con- 

 ditions that tradition and the text-books 



