Fishermen's Weather: By Upwards of One Hundred Living Anglers (Classic Reprint)

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Weather as an excuse for failure - feather in other sports - Cases in which the influence Of weather is negligible - Mr. Hutchinson's views - Importance of body of water in the river - Salmon, sea-trout, and Thames trout insensible to weather and temperature - Brown trout taken in all weathers - Educated trout more susceptible to weather than others - M r. W. Earl Hodgson on symptoms - Earthquakes - What is ideal fishing weather Cold -weather fish Concealing the fraud - NO consensus of expert Opinion regarding weather - Colonel Bairnsfather's normal weather theory - Mr. Harvie-brown on the deterioration of the British climate - T he spring of 1905 - Mr. Munro Edwards on the same subject - Weather lore in fishes - The late Matthias Dunn's theory-norfolk trout at fault: Mr. Hall's experience - Sunshine - Is rising short due to light - Possible effect Of solar eclipse - Fish dazzled by sunshine - Rain and hail - Frost and snow - Cases of good sport in snow-broth - Wind Thunder and lightning - Fog and mist - What, then, is bad fishing weatherp - Other conditions besides those enumerated - feather and sea-fishing - John Bickerdyke's views - The moral Of this book.

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