CHAPTER V 



THE WEATHER 



H E angler may fish in any con- 

 dition of weather he pleases ; 

 not, however, that all weathers 

 are equally propitious, but that 

 no weather need keep him 

 from the water. There are 

 times when past experience 

 leads us to anticipate an empty 

 creel, but since from past ex- 

 perience we have also learned 

 that we cannot, in any circum- 

 stances, foretell with certainty 

 the mood in which we shall find 

 the fish, we need never despair — nor ever feel confident 

 of success. The question of weather as it affects fly- 

 fishing is as old as that art itself. It troubled our 

 fathers as it troubles us, and as it will continue to 

 trouble those by whom we are succeeded. We have 



