60 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



Kingsland Club, on the river Lugg, an excellent grayling 

 water, is that no grayling are to be taken from March 1st 

 to August 1st ; and a very good rule it is, but on most 

 .rivers they have no fence time, which is a great mistake. 

 What possible good can it be to anyone to take fish when 

 they are unfit for food, or at any rate not worth eating. 

 They are in best condition in October, and during that 

 month the largest fish take the fly. 



A large grayling in real good condition is a beautiful 

 fish ; when first taken out of the water they have a smell 

 very much resembling that of a cucumber, and are very 

 highly and variously colored. As to what size they may 

 occasionally reach in Sweden, where they abound, I am 

 unable to say, but a one pound grayling is a good fish 

 anywhere, and one over one-and-a-half pounds, not very 

 often taken with fly. The largest I ever caught weighed 

 three pounds and five ounces, and was killed in the 

 Herefordshire Wye, where there are very few of them ; 

 it took a very large trout fly ; it was a female fish and a 

 perfect picture ; this is much the largest grayling I have 

 ever seen ; I have never hooked another over two pounds, 

 although I have on a few occasions, killed fish up to that 

 weight. 



There is, I believe, a record of one having been taken 



