I/!? GRAYLING FISHING. 



willow, both dark and light, the pale blue, the 

 most difficult fly in the world to imitate, and a 

 large brown fly, called in our country the seg-fly, 

 and one of the most killing flies I know. (It was 

 ^ith the two latter, and a small red palmer, that I 

 killed the 177 fish in Oct last.) 



4 Of these flies, and one or two others which I 

 know to be killing ones, I have sent you patterns. 

 I cannot boast their being my own tyeing, but they 

 were made by a man at Ludlow, well known as 

 Jones the fisherman,'* who has tied many dozens 

 tor me, and as he only charges two shilling a dozen, 

 I think it is waste of time to do that badly, your- 

 self which you can get done so cheap, and so much 

 better. 



' And now having given you a hint about flies, I 

 will tell you a secret or two about making use of 

 them, which is of much greater importance. You 

 will always see any person who is a stranger to gray- 

 ling fishing, and I may add many who have fished 

 for them all their lives, when the water is very 

 low and clear, immediately betake themselves to 

 the streams and curls, from the idea that the fish 

 will see your line in the dead water. Let them do 

 so; they will perhaps catch a few trout, and 

 some shett grayling. But go yourself to a deep, 

 dead part of the river, never mind if there is no 

 ctW, or if the sun is hot ; use the finest gut you 

 can procure (even if you give a guinea a knot 



