140 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
effects on the basket mischievous. Perhaps the most 
killing of the list are the August, Whirling, and Blue 
Duns (light and dark) ; Silver-twist, blue ; Red and Green 
Insects; Willow, Orange, and Sedge or Cinnamon fly 
One or other of these will kill all through the season ; 
but if the Grayling fisher will substitute for them and 
their congeners the three flies, Yellow, Green, and Brown, 
which I have recommended for Brown Trout (vzde, frontis- 
piece), and use them steadily throughout the season, he 
will probably find reason to congratulate himself on the 
exchange. , 
The arguments which have been adduced on this 
subject as applicable to Trout flies, as well as the obser- 
vations on Trout fishing generally in streams, and how it 
is to be done, Rod, Tackle, &c., apply equally to Grayling 
fishing and flies. The finest possible stained gut should 
be always used for both flies and collar. 
Comparatively few heavy Grayling are taken with the 
fly, the haunts of the large fish being chiefly the long 
slow-running deeps which are most unfriendly to this 
mode of fishing. In the rapids and ‘stickles,” small 
Grayling may be taken, but these scours are not really 
good either for the fly, grasshopper, or gentle. The best 
spots for all three are steady running streams, and ¢azds 
of pools, for the fly about three, and for the grasshopper 
about four feet deep. The grasshopper can, however, 
be frequently used with advantage in water which is 
much too slow for the fly, 
