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pounds. Some years ago I hooked and played a 

 Sea Trout which must have exceeded ten pounds ; 

 but having only a light single-handed fly-rod I 

 could not exercise that wholesome pressure on 

 his movements which is so desirable, and after 

 three-quarters of an hour of alternate somersaulting 

 and " sulking" he eventually broke me. 



GRAYLING FISHING. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



WHILST yielding to the Trout in courage and 

 dash, the Grayling is yet a beautiful and mettle- 

 some fish a foeman not unworthy of our steel 

 and if the former is the handsomer, the latter 

 would by many be considered the prettier species 

 of the two. The Trout has, so to speak, a Her- 

 culean cast of beauty ; the Grayling rather that of 

 an Apollo light, delicate, and gracefully sym- 

 metrical. 



Except in the Clyde, where the fish was intro- 

 duced about ten years ago, there are no Grayling, 

 so far as I am aware, either in Ireland or Scot- 

 land and even in England the fish is still local, 

 and comparatively speaking, even rare. The 

 following are amongst the streams which produce 



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