THE UMBER OR GRAYLING. 



with a fly made of the red feathers of a parakita, a strange 

 outlandish bird ; and he will rise at a fly not unlike a gnat 

 or a small moth, or indeed at most flies that are not too 

 big. He is a fish that lurks close all winter, but is very 

 pleasant and jolly after mid- April, and in May, and in the 

 hot months : he is of a very fine shape, his flesh is white ; 

 his teeth, those little ones that he has, are in his throat, yet 

 he has so tender a mouth, that he is oftener lost after an 

 angler has hooked him than any other fish. Though there 

 be many of these fishes in the delicate river Dove and 

 Trent, and some other small rivers, as that which runs by 

 Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish as the trout, nor 

 to me so good to eat or to angle for. And so I shall take 

 my leave of him, and now come to some observations of 

 the salmon, and how to catch him. 



