The Grayling Family 185 



rows of red spots ; in the upper, posterior angle 

 of the dorsal fin are several larger oblong rosy 

 spots; the ventral fins have three rose-colored 

 stripes along the rays ; the pectoral and anal fins 

 are plain ; the caudal fin is forked. 



As a game-fish the grayling is fully the equal 

 of the trout, though its way of taking the artificial 

 fly is quite different, and the old hand at trout 

 fishing must pay court to " the lady of the 

 streams " with the greatest assiduity before he is 

 successful in winning her attention to his lures. 

 And even then he must become fully conversant 

 with her coy and coquettish way of accepting his 

 offer, though it be cast never so deftly. There 

 is a rush and snap and vim in the rise of a trout 

 to the fly that is lacking with the grayling. The 

 trout often leaps above the water to seize the fly, 

 while it is taken more quietly and deliberately, 

 though just as eagerly, by the grayling from 

 below. In other words, it is " sucked in,"' as 

 English anglers term it, though that hardly ex- 

 presses it, as the act is not so tame as might be 

 inferred. On the contrary, the grayling rises 

 from the bottom of a pool and darts upward like 

 an arrow to seize the fly, though as a rule it does 

 not break water, and is not so demonstrative as 



