GRAYLING FISHING. 8 I 



.in which shallows and " stickles" alternate with 

 gentler currents and deep sluggish " lanes" or 

 channels of stream. 



The spawning months for Grayling are April 

 .and the early part of May, when they come up to 

 the gravelly scours in shoals in this respect 

 resembling dace. The spawning process occupies 

 from three to four days, after which the fish return 

 to their own haunts, and are then unfit for food 

 until about August ; during the intervening 

 months the spawned fish rarely take the fly or 

 bait, and if caught in May or June should be 

 returned to the river. The Grayling season begins 

 in August and properly ends with December, as 

 after Christmas the fish begin to get heavy in 

 spawn, a condition in which a good sportsman 

 will not kill them, although it cannot perhaps be 

 truly said that they are actually unfit for the table 

 until after the spawning has taken place. When 

 I last fished the Teme, the limit of size under 

 which the Leintwardine Club wisely prohibited the 

 taking of Grayling was I o inches. I hear, how- 

 ever, that the club rules have been recently 

 revised. 



One year old fish are locally termed " pinks ;" 

 at two years, when they weigh about J lb., they 

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