180 FISHING IN EDEN 



all he knows, the Solway theory may have been 

 correct. 



In these days of the regular introduction of new 

 species of fish into our sometimes depleted rivers 

 it is well known that the fish themselves have the 

 final word in the matter of a permanent home. If 

 the new water suits their whim they stay, if not 

 they mysteriously take themselves off like the 

 Romans. 



But the Upper Eden, with its fine, gravelly 

 bottom, did suit the grayling, and they have grown 

 and multiplied in that fourteen mile stretch of suit- 

 able water between Musgrave and the foot of the 

 Eamont. Some odd ones are found below that 

 limit, but the really good fishing is in the stretch 

 mentioned. Although they are to be found at the 

 mouths of tributary streams they seldom, if ever, 

 run up them, and appear so far to shun the colder 

 water, and rocky bottoms, of the Eamont and 

 Lowther. 



Grayling, as I have said, have a well-known 

 habit of feeding in shoals, and the possibility of 

 good sport depends largely upon locating them. 

 From Musgrave to Ormside, however, one can 

 hardly go wrong. But when you get farther down 

 the river, below Temple Sowerby, where the water 

 is bigger, the game of hide and seek is more 



