This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...I fished up, with a short line, and found that the fish took freely just as the flies left the water. Between us, we had 70 trout weighing 21 lbs." Of heavy rain, it is the occasional experiences that are favourable. Thus, Mr. Sheringham caught his largest trout of 1905 in a drenching downpour. Yet even he prefers the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...I fished up, with a short line, and found that the fish took freely just as the flies left the water. Between us, we had 70 trout weighing 21 lbs." Of heavy rain, it is the occasional experiences that are favourable. Thus, Mr. Sheringham caught his largest trout of 1905 in a drenching downpour. Yet even he prefers the effects of rain to its actual continuance. The majority of correspondents are against heavy rain, as for instance: --"Heavy rain stops all rising in the Weight of Upper Tawe (Carmarthen), but a drizzle has little or no effect." (W. W. F.) to heavy "In trout fishing, heavy, cold rain is an abomination, but in a light, warm rain I have known the biggest baskets made." (G.) "When a heavy fall of rain is impend ing, the trout know it beforehand and are slack in feeding." (St. V. B.) "For loch-trout in Orkney, it is no use fishing in heavy rain. Owing, I suppose, to countless rain-drops, fish do not see the fly." (A. M. S. G.) In this connection, General O'Callaghan mentions that, fishing with minnow on one occasion in the Till (Northumberland), he caught a fish about 5 A.M., and then, from 9.30 A.m., fished with fly in the rain, which commenced to fall soon after his first success, without touching another fish until about 3 P.m. In the two hours that followed, he landed 18 lbs. of trout, not one under f lb., and then had to catch a train. Mr. Gallichan writes that he has found rainy weather favour bait-fishing for coarse fish, but not in a low temperature. "In some waters," he says, "trout will take the fly during rather heavy rain, though seldom during a drenching downpour. But in certain rivers, light rain seems to put trout down while it is falling. Generally speaking, light showers fa...
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