THE SCIENTIFIC ANGLER. 



" Early in spring gray- "The grayling passes its 

 ling ascend the rivers, time entirely in fresh water, 

 where they remain till and I cannot understand 

 autumn, and then return how Donavon whose fig- 

 to their former element." ure, bad as it is, shows it- 

 Donavon. self to be this fish says it is 



migratory. " Haughton. 



"He is a fish that lurks "Grayling are best in 

 very close all the winter, season in autumn and win- 

 but is very pleasant and ter; indeed, they should 

 jolly after mid- April, in the not be taken till August, 

 hot months." Walton. and all caught before that 



period should be returned." 

 Francis. 



"They delight in rivers 

 that glide through moun- 

 tainous places, and are met 

 with in the clearest and 

 swiftest of those streams." 

 Mackintosh. 



"The grayling is the 

 deadest-hearted fish in the 

 world." Cotton. 



" They cannot stem rapid 

 streams, and are gradually 

 carried lower and lower, 

 and at last disappear." 

 Shipley and Mtzgibbon. 



"The grayling is an ex- 

 cellent fish for sport." 

 Ronalds. 



The juxtaposition of these extracts shows how many 

 inaccuracies and fallacies are diffused by those who pro- 

 fess to be the teachers of truth. 



The quotations to the right are accurate in detail, as 

 grayling fishers of experience will concede. The annual 

 movements of these fish occur in much the same way as 

 those of the trout, with the exception of the one being 

 in condition in the cold season and the other in the most 

 genial part of the year. In the spawning season (April 

 and May) they repair to the broad shallows, where the 



