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turned wildly over and over on the surface (grayling 

 seldom or never spring out of water as trout do), and 

 being thus exhausted and before he could take 

 another turn, as they sometimes do when apparently 

 dead beaten, was drawn near enough to be netted 

 out. Almost under similar conditions another 

 grayling was shortly after lured by the same fly 

 and killed the brace weighing 2Jlb. 



Higher up, twenty yards in the rear of the first 

 islet, a large grayling was observed in a clear bay 

 behind weeds, and, save for the gently waving 

 movement of his tail to maintain his equipoise, 

 showing no signs of life " Grlued to the bottom 

 and very little use to cast over him," an angler 

 would say. Nevertheless, in a desultory sort of 

 way I did send my red quill over him, and his head 

 slightly moved up. Again my fly was floated over, 

 and this time he came to inspect it, paused, and 

 retired. I also retired some thirty or forty yards 

 lower down, and under the dry sedge bordering my 

 bank managed to hook and land an 11 in. grayling. 

 Then I quietly worked up again to the before- 

 mentioned big one, and by a long throw deftly 

 placed my fly a yard in front of him. Like a 

 shadowy flash he boldly rose, touched the fly, and 

 drowned it, no doubt seizing it submerged unknown 

 to me, for in the act of recovering my fly it firmly 

 hooked him, and after a well-fought battle he was 



