144 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
From about eight A.M. until four P.M. is commonly the 
best time of day. I have been informed that grass- 
hopper-fishing was first introduced into Shropshire 
about forty-five years ago by the late Mr. Jones, fisher- 
man, of Ludlow; whose son, also residing in Ludlow, is, 
or was when I last fished with him, as deadly a Grayling- 
killer as I ever met. 
GENTLE-FISHING. 
Before the introduction of the artificial grasshopper, it 
was the custom, in Shropshire at any rate, to fish for 
Grayling with gentles only for bait and ground-bait, 
used in the same manner as we now use them for Roach, 
and with similar tackle. Fished in the 
“Nottingham style” they will still be found 
a very killing bait (vede Chapter on Roach- 
fishing). 
In the above and every description of 
gentle-fishing a tin box like that shown in 
the engraving, with a tray in front of the 
opening, and which can be suspended from 
the button-hole, will be found a really great practical 
convenience and saving of time. This box was, I 
believe, the ingenious invention of Messrs. Dawson, 
Bell Yard, Temple Bar. 
