168 THE TEME. 



* MY DEAR SIR, 



' You asked me some little time since to send you 

 some information respecting grayling fishing. 



' Living as I do on the banks of the Team, or 

 Teme, and with a most liberal permission to angle 

 both at Leintwardine and Oakley Park, I am per- 

 haps one of the most determined persecutors of 

 the finny tribe ; and although I have on occasion 

 tried most kind of baits, the fly is the only one I 

 take any delight in. 



' So much has been said by Sir Humphry Davy, 

 in his Salmonia of the country, anatomy, and 

 habits of the grayling, and so great an authority is 

 he in such points, that I hardly dare venture to con- 

 tradict him and yet in some cases I think he is in 

 error. 



4 Any person who has ever fished in a grayling 

 river, will remember that there are three very dis- 

 tinct sizes of fish : the pink, so called, I imagine, 

 from its not much exceeding the minnow in size ; 

 the skett, or shote, which average about five to the 

 pound ; and the half pound fish, which then takes 

 the name of ' grayling. 1 



Now, as I have myself constantly caught all these 

 several kinds on the same day, and that in the 

 month of October ; and it is allowed by all that 

 grayling spawn in April, or at latest in May ; if all 

 these fish are the produce of the same year, how 

 can you account for the great difference in size ? 



