88 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



no runs at all, as in all other kinds of fishing ; but if the 

 water is in order, that is quite clear, it is no use for 

 grayling when it is at all colored, although you may kill 

 coarse fish with it in water slightly stained. On a Sep- 

 tember or October morning, after a frosty night, you 

 seldom fail to kill some fish, and the largest grayling 

 take this lure. 



The best fishermen in this line are to be found in 

 Herefordshire and Shropshire, but even there it is not 

 employed to any very great extent, and there are few 

 men who fish it really well. 



The modus operandi is : Use a sixteen feet cane rod, 

 with upright rings, and as light as possible, for it is very 

 fatiguing work with a heavy rod. I always use a rod of 

 light cane, twenty feet long ; and anyone taking to this 

 kind of fishing will soon discover the advantage of great 

 length ; but sixteen feet is long enough to begin with. 



A very fine plaited silk line, and three yards of good 

 stained gut about the thickness of a medium trout cast. 



The grasshopper itself is made as follows : Cover 

 the shank of a Limerick bend hook with lead after having 

 whipped a gut loop on to it, and then wrap on over it 

 with grass green worsted or a stuff called philozel of the 

 same colour, the latter is best, and ribbed distinctly with 



