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for he is rarely so much out of season as to 

 be a bad fish; and when there are flies on 

 the water, will generally take them : but as 

 the trout may be considered as a spring and 

 summer fish, so the grayling may be con- 

 sidered as winter and autumnal fish. 



Phys. — Of course the grayling is taken 

 in spring with the same imitation of flies as 

 the trout ? 



Hal. — The same. As far as flies are 

 concerned, these two species feed alike; 

 though I may say, generally, that the gray- 

 ling prefers smaller flies, and the varieties of 

 the ephemerae or phryganese, of the smallest 

 size, form their favourite food. Yet gray- 

 lings do not refuse large flies; and in the 

 Avon and Test, May flies, and even moths, 

 are greedily taken in the summer by large 

 grayling. Flies, likewise, that do not in- 

 habit the water, but are blown from the 

 land, are likewise good baits for grayling. 

 There is no method more killing, for large 

 grayling, than applying a grasshopper to the 

 point of a leaded hook, the lead and shank 

 of which are covered with green and yellow 



