Favorite Fish and Fishing 



day. Dame Juliana was really the first 

 author to mention fly-fishing in a definite 

 sense, though ^Elian in his " History of 

 Animals," A.D. 230, says that the Mace- 

 donians fished in the river Astraeus with an 

 imitation of a fly called hippurus. 



Dame Juliana in her treatise gives a list 

 of " XII flyes wyth whyche ye shall angle 

 to ye trought and grayllyng"; and now, 

 after the lapse of four centuries, artificial 

 flies constructed after her formulas would 

 prove as successful as any of the new 

 fangled, up-to-date creations. In fact, most 

 of her flies are in use to-day under various 

 names ; and any of them tied on very small 

 hooks would answer admirably for the 

 graylings of America. 



The Graylings There are three closely allied species of 

 grayling in America, and two or three in 

 Europe. Wherever found they inhabit the 

 coldest and clearest streams. Their distri- 

 bution in this country is restricted to well- 

 defined and limited areas. One, known as 

 the Arctic grayling, is abundant in Alaska 

 and the adjoining Mackenzie district of 

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