ANGLING FOR GRAYLING. 95 



Having been so particular and minute with respect 

 to angling for trout, it will not be requisite to repeat 

 many of the details for other river fish which are 

 taken by similar methods. 



ANGLING FOR GRAYLING. 



According to the Rev. Mr. Low, the grayling is fre- 

 quent in the Orkney Islands, as it is in Lapland and 

 Switzerland ; but it is rare in Scotland, and confined in 

 England to the Avon near Salisbury, the Ure near 

 Fountain's Abbey, the Wye near Tintern Abbey, the 

 Dee between Corwen and Bala, and the Dove; also 

 the Trent, the Wharfe, the Humber, the Rye, and 

 the Derwent. 



Grayling may be angled for much in the same way 

 as trout, with the exception of minnow fishing, which, 

 notwithstanding the authority of Walton, is not found 

 to be good. It is a more gregarious fish than the trout, 

 though not so much so as the perch and carp. It 

 spawns in April or the beginning of, May ; depositing 

 the roe amongst gravel at the tails of swift currents. 

 While trout is a spring and summer fish, grayling 

 is best in season in autumn and winter. It feeds more 

 on the ground than trout, and is not so easily scared 

 though more difficult to deceive than trout, and likes 

 smaller flies. 



" Grayling," says Sir H. Davy, " provided your link 

 is fine, is not apt to be scared by the cast of flies on 

 the water. The fineness of the link, and of the gut to 

 which your flies are attached, is a most essential point, 

 and the clearer the stream the finer should be the tackle. 



