GRAYLING FISHING. 1 3/ 



In Hampshire and Wiltshire — the Test, Wharf, and both 

 the Avons ; in Herefordshire — the Dove, Lug, Arrow, 

 Wye, and Irwin ; in Shropshire — the Teme and Clun, 

 Corve and Onny ; in Staffordshire — the Hodder, Trent, 

 Dove, and Wye ; in Derbyshire — the Dove ; in Merio- 

 nethshire, the Dee ; in Lancashire — the Ribble ; in 

 Yorkshire — the Derwent, Ure, Wharfe, and Whiske ; and 

 in Cumberland, according to Heysham, the Esk and the 

 Eden. 



The Wye, Dee, Lug, and Teme are the only Welsh 

 rivers holding Grayling that I am acquainted with. 

 Leintwardine on the Teme may be considered as the 

 centre of the Grayling country ; and from Leintwardine 

 to Ludlow is the best piece of Grayling water in the 

 kingdom ; so far as my experience goes. 



The cause of the non-existence of Grayling in Irish 

 or Scotch rivers is probably to be found in the " rock, 

 stone, and scour," which are their most common characte- 

 ristics, whilst the Grayling appears to thrive best in 

 rivers, the beds of which are composed partly or wholly 

 of sandy gravel or loam ; and instead of dashing torrents 

 and rapids in uninterrupted succession, affects waters in 

 which shallows and "stickles" alternate with gentler 

 currents and deep sluggish " lanes" or channels of 

 stream. 



The spawning months for Grayling are April and the 

 early part of May, when they come up to the gravelly 

 scours in shoals — in this respect resembling dace. The 



