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CHAPTER XII. 



GRAYLING FISHING. 



Grayling rivers and haunts, — The 'Grayling country'; spawning; 



growth-rate, and nomenclature. Artificial fly-fishing and flies. 



Uselessness of the great number of Grayling flies ; typical Trout 



flies recommended to be substituted. 

 Grasshopper fishing — best tackle; time, place, and mode of using. 



Grayling fishing <vjith the gentle. 



General Remarks. 



Whilst yielding to the Trout in courage and dash, the 

 Grayling is yet a beautiful and mettlesome fish — a 

 foeman not unworthy of our steel — and if the former 

 is the handsomer, the latter would by many be con- 

 sidered the prettier species of the two. The Trout has, 

 so to speak, a Herculean cast of beauty ; the Grayling 

 rather that of an Apollo — light, delicate, and gracefully 

 symmetrical. 



Except in the Clyde, where the fish was introduced 

 about ten years ago, there are no Grayling, so far as I 

 am aware, either in Ireland or Scotland — and even in 

 England the fish is still local, and comparatively speak- 

 ing, even rare. The following are amongst the streams 

 which produce the Grayling in more or less abundance. 



