30 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



CHAPTER III. 



GRAYLING, OR UMBER. 



it HE Grayling is in proportion neither so 

 broad nor so thick as a Trout, and in size sel- 

 dom exceeds from fifteen to eighteen inches : 

 I have taken them from half a pound to two 

 pounds, in several parts of Yorkshire. They 

 delight in rivers that glide through mountain- 

 ous places, and are to be met with in the 

 clearest and swiftest of those streams : this 

 fish may be eaten all the year, but its princi- 

 pal season is November and December, at 

 which time its gills, and the list that runs 

 down its back, are all black. The time of 

 its spawning is in May : it is accounted by 

 some the most delicious of all river fish ; the 

 flesh is w r hite and firm, in flakes like a Sal- 

 mon, and is esteemed very wholesome : it is 



