GRAYLING FISHING. 85 



Comparatively few heavy Grayling are taken 

 with the fly, the haunts of the large fish being 

 chiefly the long slow-running deeps which are most 

 unfriendly to this mode of fishing. In the rapids 

 and " stickles," small Grayling may be taken, but 

 these scours are not really good either for the fly, 

 grasshopper, or gentle. The best spots for all 

 three are steady running streams, and tails of pools, 

 for the fly about three, and for the grasshopper 

 about four feet deep. The grasshopper can, how- 

 ever, be frequently used with advantage in water 

 which is much too slow for the fly. 



GRASSHOPPER-FISHING. 



The lure known by the name of the artificial 

 grasshopper, is really a rough imitation of a cater- 

 pillar, and not of a grasshopper. The best are 

 imitations made as follows. Whip a strand of fine 

 stained gut on to a No. i o or No. 1 1 hook ;* 

 making the silk lapping extend as far as the bend 

 of the hook. Take a lightish lead, bored, of about 

 an inch in length ; cut it down at one end to the 



* If a No. 1 1 hook is used, which is on the whole the best 

 size of bend, a small piece of the end of the shank should be 

 nipped off, as the grasshopper would otherwise be too long 

 and large for ordinary purposes. 



