230 FLF FISHING FOR GRAYLING. 



fish to take the first cast. If he does not then 

 wait and try to learn his periodicity that is 

 to say do not throw just after he has risen, 

 but just before he is due to rise again. He 

 lies lower down in the water than a trout and 

 consequently is less fitted for that double snap 

 which a hungry trout will occasionally give. 



It is best to make up one's mind to use 

 nothing but a dry fly, a tapered cast with a 

 3 x drawn point, and a nought oir two nought 

 hook. It has been said that grayling are more 

 tolerant of drag than trout. So they are- 

 small or moderate sized grayling but no, not 

 the good ones. During the last seven seasons 

 I have only twice had a grayling of over i Ib. 

 7 oz. affix himself or herself to a dragging fly, 

 and in each case it was to one which was racing 

 across the stream in a semicircle. 



That they do not stipulate for the same 

 neatness or accuracy of casting is true enough. 

 If feeding in a shallow however, a bungling 

 cast or a sight of the angler will bring about 

 the same furrowed rush into the open which 

 we all know so well. 



When in mid stream as they mostly are, and 

 when rising in two or three feet of water, a 

 grayling approached from below is very kind to 

 the angler. She will sometimes allow him to 

 float all the hundred best patterns over her 

 head without taking the least alarm or offence. 

 A well informed trout would not like this. He 

 would move; and even then not keep his tongue 

 quiet as he went. But grayling continue to 



