The Grayling Family i()'j 



Likewise in England, in such historic waters 

 as the Wye, the Derwent, the Wharfe, or the 

 Dove, hallowed by " meek Walton's heavenly 

 memory," the grayling and trout still coexist in 

 about the same relative proportion that has been 

 maintained since and before the days of Dame 

 Juliana Berners, Izaak Walton, and Charles 

 Cotton in the fifteenth century. On those 

 quiet streams no cause has ever been allowed 

 to militate against the well-being of either 

 species, or to disturb the natural conditions to 

 any considerable extent. 



In a recent number of the London Fishing 

 Gazette is one of the best articles on the English 

 grayling that I have ever seen. It is written by 

 Mr. E. F. Goodwin, who is undoubtedly fully 

 conversant with his theme and well acquainted 

 with the habits of that fish. Among other things 

 he says : — 



" When in season I maintain that the grayling 

 will give excellent sport on suitable tackle, is 

 splendid eating, and is as handsome a fish as 

 any angler need wish to gaze upon. What more 

 can one want ? How Charles Cotton could have 

 written in such terms of condemnation of the 

 sporting qualities of this fish as to call him ' one 



