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the same character. It is found in Derbyshire, 

 in the Dove, Derwent, and Wye ; in Hampshire, 

 in the Avon, Test, Itchen, and other rivers ; in 

 the Teme, Lugg, Arrow, and other Western streams. 

 There is magnificent grayling fishing in the rivers 

 which run through Wilton, and many are caught in 

 certain Yorkshire waters. In Scotland, too, the 

 Clyde, Tweed, and Teviot now hold many of this 

 fish. 



Grayling are very rapid risers, and have always 

 seemed to the writer to be more difficult to hook 

 than trout. The number of grayling pricked and 

 missed in an ordinary day's fishing is usually very 

 large. Their mouths are extremely delicate, and in 

 consequence light handling when playing them is 

 most essential. With respect to the best flies for 

 grayling fishing, the ordinary autumn duns are always 

 useful. In Derbyshire the * bumble ' is a very killing 

 fly, tied with either an orange or a crimson body ; the 

 ash-dun and apple-green-dun are also largely used 

 in that county. A tiny red tag, or a bit of bright 

 tinsel, added to an ordinary trout fly, is sometimes a 

 great attraction to grayling. 



At Leintwardine, the science of * grasshoppering ' 

 has, I understand, been brought to great perfection ; 

 but, as I have never seen grayling fished for except 



