North Wind.
Fishermen in anger froth
When the wind is in the north;
For fish bite the best
When the wind is in the west.
Pike.
When pike lie on the bed of a stream quietly, expect rain or wind.
Porpoises.
Porpoises, when they sport about ships and chase one another as if in play, and indeed their being numerous on the surface of the sea at any time, is rather a stormy sign. The same may be said of dolphins and grampus. That the cause of these motions is some electrical change in the air seems probable. Wilsford, in his Secrets of Nature, tells us “Porpoises or sea-hogs when observed to sport and chase one another about ships, expect then some stormy weather.”
Porpoises are said to swim in the direction from which the wind is coming.