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renders the grayling much more unfit for leap- 

 ing cataracts than the trout and salmon. The 

 temperature of the water, and its character as 

 to still and stream, seem of more importance 

 than clearness; for grayling have been taken 

 in streams that are almost constantly turbid, 

 as in the Inn and the Salza in the Tyrol. 

 This fish appears to require food of a particular 

 kind, feeding much upon flies and their larvae, 

 and not usually preying upon small fish, as the 

 trout. We recollect, however, that a gentle- 

 man of the name of Powell, who resided for 

 some time in the neighbourhood of Ashborne, 

 and who always fished with a minnow, was in 

 the constant habit of catching large grayling 

 with that bait. He has been known to catch 

 of a day, by spinning the minnow, four grayling 

 each upwards of a pound and a half in weight. 

 The grayling has a very strong stomach, 

 almost approaching to that of the gillaroo 

 trout, and is exceedingly fond of those larvae 

 which inhabit cases, and which, usually covered 

 with sand or gravel, require a strong membra- 

 neous stomach to enable the extraneous matter 

 to be separated. In accordance with their 

 general habits of feeding, grasshoppers are 

 amongst their usual food in the end of summer 

 and autumn; and at all seasons, maggots, 

 upon fine tackle and a small hook, offer a 



