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then reel him up gently and quietly, ready to let him have 

 another rush at an instant's notice if he should be so inclined, 

 and when at length you have safely run him in (or out, perhaps, 

 it should be), and not until, a$d only then, wet him with 

 tea "cold tea" of the Keighley brew drink success to- 

 winter grayling fishing and the time of year when Jack Frost 

 scatters his diamonds on every tree and blade of grass to 

 glisten for us in the feeble sunlight and vanish like a dream 

 to remind us of the instability of all earthly things. 



GRAYLING SEASON. 



From about the middle of September the grayling is 

 worth catching. From the middle of October until the 

 middle of January he is as good to catch as trout. 



POSITION OF TROUT IN THE STREAMS. 



The early spring-trout fisher usually finds himself at fault 

 in his first efforts to find the fish at the beginning of each 

 season. Their exact situation in the streams and dubs 

 varies according to the prevailing temperature, atmospheric 

 and aquatic. When trout return to the main river from the 

 tributary becks after the spawning season, they are ill- 

 conditioned and too weak to stem the force of a powerful 

 current. They, therefore, find their first resting-places in 

 the quiet dubs, and usually at the lower end of them, where 

 the current is gentle. As the warmth of the sun increases 

 with the advancing season, aquatic life begins to move from 

 under the stones and about the rocks, gravel, and weeds, 

 and the ravenous fish feed greedily on it, a few fine days at 

 this period of the year having a remarkable effect in bringing 

 trout into condition. Of course, the surface-food of trout, as 

 all anglers know, is a mere fraction of the sustenance they 

 require, and it is tolerably certain that a trout is at all times 



