Notes and Sport of a Dry -Fit/ Purist. 137 



Lower down, where the broad water is divided by 

 the first islet, the narrowed channel is a favoured 

 feeding-place for grayling. They were now darting 

 up to the surface, taking floating flies iron blues 

 they looked like but to pass along the bank would 

 disturb them. I therefore several times let my 

 dry-fly drift down, and at last it was effective in 

 bringing another fish to hand. About 4 p.m. the 

 sparse rise of Ephemeridse was over, nor did they 

 come on again until an hour after sunset, when 

 dark-winged olives in considerable numbers were on 

 the wind-rippled stream under the low-branching 

 trees at the upper end of the mill-race, where 

 casting was almost impossible, but in an eddy one 

 grayling could be tried over, and he came to grief, 

 the two brace for the day scaling 41b. 2oz. 



The morning rise on November 3rd did not 

 begin until about 11.30, and only lasted for two 

 and a half hours. On the lower reach of the main 

 stream in the park several small rings and splashes 

 were seen on the glide above the second island, such 

 as denote grayling busily taking surface food, but 

 they were many times cast over before my 00 red 

 quill was taken and a fish hooked, who instantly 

 furrowed along the top of the water to the opposite 

 side, and made vain attempts to rub the hook out 

 in a shallow weed-bed ; then when held firmly from 

 the rod and played he repeatedly, as if in wrath, 



