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the grayling lies deeper and is not so shy a 

 fish as the trout ; and, provided your link is 

 fine, is not apt to be scared by the cast of flies 

 on the water. The fineness of the link, and 

 of the guts to which your flies are attached, 

 is a most essential point, and the clearer the 

 stream the finer should be the tackle. I have 

 known good fishermen foiled by using a gut 

 of ordinary thickness, though their fly was 

 of the right size and colour. Very slender 

 transparent gut of the colour of the water is 

 one of the most important causes of success 

 in grayling fishing. Let me see your book : 

 I will select a fine stretcher. Now, for the 

 lowest fly, use a yellow-bodied fly, with red 

 hackle for legs, and landrail's wing ; for the 

 second, a blue dun, with dun body ; and for 

 the highest, the claret coloured body, with 

 blue wings ; and let your first dropper fly be 

 about three feet from the stretcher and from 

 the other dropper, and let the hanging link 

 which attaches them be 3J inches long. 



PHYS. There are several fish rising : I 

 shall throw at that opposite he appears 

 large. 



