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same fish on the fly. He is also an 

 advocate of quite still weather for any 

 fly-fishing in mountain streams, as well 

 as for roach, bream, carp, tench, perch 

 for grayling; and grayling. As regards the last, Mr. 

 Rolt shares this preference. "Unsettled 

 weather," he writes with reference to 

 grayling fishing, "is inimical to their 

 taking well. . . . With half a gale blow- 

 ing, the gray ling -fisher's bag will be 

 empty. Three days recently spent on 

 the Itchen will exemplify this. On the 

 first day, the glass was steady. There 

 was not a breath of wind, and the result 

 of fishing from 9 till 5 was nine brace 

 of grand fish. Days two and three were 

 very windy, so much so that casting was 

 impossible in the best stretches of the 

 river open to the angler. The catch for 

 the two days came to only 4J brace of 

 medium-sized fish. Again, on the Wylye 

 one day, there was a perfect hurricane 

 of wind and rain, and at the close of a 

 long fight with the elements the bag 

 showed two brace of fish just over the 



