136 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
CHAPTER xt. 
GRAYLING FISHING. 
Grayling rivers and haunts.—The ‘Grayling country’; spawning ; 
growth-rate, and nomenclature. <Artificial fly-fishing and flies. 
Uselessness of the great number of Grayling flies; typical Trout 
lies recommended to be substituted. 
Grasshopper fishing—best tackle; time, place, and mode of using. 
Grayling fishing with the genile. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
WHILST yielding to the Trout in courage and dash, the 
Grayling is yet a beautiful and mettlesome fish —a 
foeman not unworthy of our steel—and if the former 
is the handsomer, the latter would by many be con- 
sidered the prettier species of the two. The Trout has, 
so to speak, a Herculean cast of beauty ; the Grayling 
rather that of an Apollo—light, delicate, and gracefully 
symmetrical. 
Except in the Clyde, where the fish was introduced 
about ten years ago, there are no Grayling, so far as I 
am aware, either in Ireland or Scotland—and even in 
England the fish is still local, and comparatively speak- 
ing, even rare. The following’are amongst the streams 
which produce the Grayling in more or less abundance. 
