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baited with fresh-water slirimps, and buoyed with small frag- 

 ments of cork, might, very likely, take pollan when they are 

 swimming near the surface. 



The Gwyniad is a member of the salmon tribe, so like the 

 powan, pollan, and vendace, as to have been supposed, by some 

 naturalists, to be identical with them. It is found in several of 

 the Cumberland lakes, and in Wales. There is, I believe, no 

 known method of catching this fish with hook and line. 



The Graining is an exceedingly rare variety of dace, being 

 only found in the Mersey, the Alt (Lancashire), the Learn, at 

 Leamington, and some streams in the townships of Burton Wood 

 and Sankey. It is said to be somewhat like a dace, but with a 

 more rounded nose ; the upper part of the head and body is drab 

 tinged with red ; the cheeks and gill-covers are a silver yellowish- 

 white, and the fins are a pale yellowish-white. The graining rises 

 to a fly, but the redworm is a more killing bait. Yarrell's speci- 

 mens of graining in the British Museum are, so Dr. Day tells 

 me, undoubted examples of dace. 



In addition to the above, there is a sea-fish — the Shad — 

 which visits a few of our rivers for a short time in the spring 

 months, for spawning purposes. There are two varieties of 

 this fish found off the British coasts, the twaite and allice 

 shad. I consider shad excellent eating. They have a distinct 

 salmon flavour. 



I have given but scanty information in this chapter, for 

 the simple and all-sufficient reason that the fish mentioned 

 are of small account to anglers. All the British coarse fish 

 have now been treated of, the pike excepted, to which most 

 sport-giving fish the second division of this work is devoted. 



