CHAPTER XII. 



Grayling Relative Size of Grayling Description of Streams 

 suitable for Grayling Peculiarity of Grayling when rising 

 at a Fly Casting for Grayling The Grayling as a Sporting 

 Fish Tactics of Grayling when hooked Spawning of 

 Grayling Best Month for Grayling-fishing Advantages of 

 a Grayling Stream Rising Qualities of Grayling An 

 Exceptional Day The Olive Dun as a Grayling Fly- 

 Shape of Grayling Delicacy and Shape of Mouth of 

 Grayling The Virtues of Grayling Edible Qualities of 

 Grayling Origin of Grayling Weather and Time of Day 

 most suitable for Grayling-fishing Grayling as Spawn-eaters 

 The Law of Retaliation Yorkshire Grayling Flies 

 Derbyshire Bumbles Selection of Grayling Flies. 



IT is much to be regretted that grayling are to be 

 found in so few of our streams. Although I am 

 well aware that all rivers which contain trout, and 

 in which the latter thrive remarkably well, are not 

 equally suitable for grayling, nevertheless there 

 must be many of our rivers which would suit 

 them admirably if properly stocked. Not so very 

 many years ago there were no grayling in the 

 Test ; now it is one of the best, if not the best, 

 of our grayling streams, and the fish there and in 

 the Hampshire Avon attain to a greater average 



