246 Gray ling- Fishing. 



heartily welcome to preserve, and to multiply, their 

 grayling in their own streams ; but while it is their 

 boast that in many of them there are 



" Here and there a lusty trout, 

 And here and there a grayling ; " 



I for my part would infinitely prefer that the 

 trout may be " here" and the grayling " there." 



Anglers for trout need not provide any additional 

 tackle or lures for the capture of grayling. Feeding 

 as we all know too well on much the same food 

 as trout, grayling may be taken with the same flies 

 and baits, although it is true very few are caught 

 with the minnow. They congregate, too, in pre- 

 cisely those parts of the water where trout are to 

 be, or ought to be, met with ; and so the fly-fisher 

 and the bait-fisher, in a stream that unfortunately 

 contains both fish, may be just as likely to hook a 

 grayling as a trout. Indeed the grayling that I 

 have caught and they are many were taken 

 of their own choice, not of mine. 



More of bottom than of surface feeders, grayling 

 take particular delight in the worm ; and after a 

 flood in autumn, with the river either black or clear 

 for they do not take well in a muddy or clayey 

 water the quantity captured may outnumber, if 

 not outweigh, the angler's take of trout. We have 

 seen that trout are, as a rule, to be got with worm 

 in flooded waters during the whole season, and that 



