CHAPTER XVII. 



A NEW GRAYLING FISHERY. 



AN experiment was first made in 1901 by the lessee 

 of the extensive fishery above Winchester to stock 

 it with grayling by introducing a large consign- 

 ment of yearlings into the main stream, a portion of 

 the Itcheii without shallows, except beyond the 

 Great Western Railway arch, where these young 

 fish, suddenly transferred to the strange environ- 

 ment, would at first be hardly likely to stay or 

 ascend further. Bather they would drop back to 

 seek deep and more restful haunts and suitable 

 submerged food, and, if not found to their liking, 

 they would gradually disappear from their tempo- 

 rary abode in an almost mysterious manner. It 

 was so in this case, for within a few months they 

 all deserted out of the fishery. Nothing daunted, 

 however, by this failure indeed, profiting by 

 experience the enterprising lessee towards the end 

 of the same year placed a large number of adult 

 grayling, weighing from l^lb. to 2 Jib., in the 

 middle, or, as it is sometimes called, the mill stream, 

 which for the most part of two miles up to 



