208 FISHING GOSSIP. 



proportion of large fish and such Grayling as seldom rise at 

 a fly, viz. 2 Ibs. to 3 Ibs. weight each. I have sent out a 

 much greater number of these baits this year and last season, 

 than usual. 



" I trust Gentlemen will NOT ENCOURAGE these Deadly 

 baits in their GRAYLING Streams, or there will be a sad fall- 

 ing off in the fly-fishing, which is the most legitimate bait. 



" Last year a Club of Anglers met for three days' Artificial 

 Grasshopper fishing in a Grayling stream, in part of our RIVER, 

 the TEME RIVER. They took upwards of 5 cwt. of Grayling 

 by fishing with this deadly contrivance. The season for using 

 this bait is all the year, but best in the Autumn and Winter 

 for Grayling. For other FISH, when the FISH are best in 



season. 



* # * * 



" Prices, 6s. the half-dozen, with 6 feet of gut complete 

 for use. 



" Apply to FREDERICK ALLIES, Pisciculturist, etc." 



This is very funny, is'nt it ? 



Well, but this is not all. Mr. Allies is by no 

 means content with the fame to be acquired for his 

 grasshoppers by the limited circulation of a hand-bill 

 amongst mere private acquaintances ; his light must 

 be more widely diffused as it were from a candle- 

 stick, so he republishes the substance of this Epistle 

 to the Gentiles in the form of a letter to the Field 

 newspaper mice, mountains, and all. 



It might have been imagined that this double 

 publicity would have satisfied the vanity even of " an 

 Inventor and Maker," and that the soul of an Allies 

 would have found rest. It would not, perhaps, have 



