CHAPTER XI 



GRAYLING FISHING IN THE EDEN 



THOSE fishermen who are not content to leave the 

 river after the trouting season is over may very well 

 turn their attention to grayling fishing as a not 

 unattractive sport. 



It may appear on the face of it, from a weather 

 point of view, a game only for the young and hardy, 

 but this is not really the case. A long, hard day 

 with these fish, excepting perhaps in the early 

 autumn, when the weather conditions are often all 

 that can be desired, is out of the question. The 

 start need not be made before ten or eleven o'clock 

 in the morning, and four or five hours' work is all 

 that can be done. 



Grayling feed in shoals. They are here to-day 

 and perhaps somewhere else to-morrow, but the area 

 of their habitual wandering is never very great. 

 Certain suitable lengths of water carry plenty of fish, 

 and when they are located there is no necessity for 



such hard, and long distance wading as is common 



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