1 82 Fly Fishing for Grayling. 



very gently, and lo ! you are fast into a fish, and 

 probably a good one. Grayling are easily scared 

 for a time and sent to the bottom, and when you 

 have taken a fish or two, particularly out of a still 

 pool, leave it for a while, or make a sketch, or eat 

 your lunch if the time is come, and then fish it 

 again and you will have another or two. 



The lower part of the river at Burrington Bridge 

 affords capital sport, and in a different way to the 

 upper part. The river runs through masses of 

 rock with rapid runs and deep pools and high 

 trees. Wading is obligatory, and the imder cast a 

 necessity. Big grayling are there, and require 

 nice handling. Ah ! what a river it is, and in 

 what beautiful scenery. How good Sir Humphry 

 appreciated it : 



" We have had good sport ; but I have been for 

 some time reposing on the banks and admiring the 

 scene below. How fine are these woods ! How 

 beautiful these banks ! The hills in the distance 

 approach to the character of mountains ; and the 

 precipitous cliff, which forms the summit of that 

 distant elevation, looks like a diluvian monument, 

 and as if it had been razed and torn by a deluge 

 which it had stemmed." 



He recommends three flies. I never fished but 

 with two, generally, with only one, and found 

 this conducive to success ; for this, as I have 



