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CHAPTEK X. 



GRAYLING-FISHING. 



Bait the hook well ; this fish will bite." 



Much Ado about Nothing. 



HMHOUGH several well-known authors have attri- 

 -L bated to the grayling many, if not all, of the 

 qualities for which the trout ranks so deservedly 

 high with all sportsmen, what I have to say of it 

 here will be brief, and more in the way of protest 

 than of praise. 



Mr Francis, in his ' Book on Angling ' says, " I 

 have a very high opinion of this fish;" and the 

 author of the most recent work on 'Fly-Fishing' 

 subscribes to this view, and impatiently adds, 1 

 " Every grayling-fisher who knows anything about 

 it has the same." If to have caught thousands of 

 grayling be sufficient to elevate one to the rank of 



1 Recollections of Fly-Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Gray- 

 ing. By Dr Edward Hamilton. P. 177. 



