CHAPTER XI. 

 GRAYLING. 



A cousin of the trout A "poor relation" Accusations 

 made against it An opinion on the grayling question- 

 Size of grayling Flies Wet-flyfishing Watching the 

 line On the chalk stream Watching the fish Not 

 easily put down A strong fighter Why grayling are 

 lost Hustling a fish Bait fishing. 



THE trout has a sort of cousin to which the novice 

 has not yet been introduced, unless he has made its 

 acquaintance fortuitously in the course of his trout 

 fishing. This is the grayling, a fish of many merits,, 

 which is found in company with its relative in a 

 good many rivers of England and Wales,, 

 and in a few of the south of Scotland. It is a 

 handsome fish, in appearance suggesting a cross 

 between a trout and a dace, and its membership of 

 the salmon family is attested by the little 

 supplementary back fin, known as the adipose 

 fin, which serves for a sign of race, but, sa 

 far as I know, for no other purpose. As 

 a sporting fish, I consider the grayling little 



