GRAYLING. 



The grayling, which is not a common species, is 

 mostly caught in the western counties of England. 

 It is also caught in the Dove, in Derbyshire, and in 

 several of the tributaries of the Trent; in the Derwent, 

 the Wharfe, the Bye, the Ure, and the Wiske, in 

 Yorkshire. It is not found in Ireland, nor in Scotland ; 

 and, though the Rev. Mr. Lowe represents it as being 

 frequently caught in the Orkneys, in salt water, we 

 are much disposed to think that he means some 

 other fish, known there by the same name. The 

 grayling will take any of the flies usually employed 

 in angling for trout, as well as cad-bait, gentles, and 

 worms. Though Walton says that he will bite at a 

 minnow, we never knew one taken with such a bait. 

 The grayling spawns in May, and is in greatest 

 perfection from September to .Christmas. 



GUINIAD OR SCHELLEY. 



This species, mostly caught in lakes, is called, in 

 Wales, the guiniad> and, in Cumberland, the schelley. 

 It is probably the powan of the Scottish, and the 

 pollan of the Irish lakes. They seldom, exceed a foot 

 in length, and, in the appearance of the mouth, they 

 resemble the herring. They swim in shoals; and, 

 in Ullswater, where great quantities are caught with 

 the net, and afterwards potted, and sold as char, 

 upwards of a thousand are sometimes taken at a 

 single haul. Sometimes a few descend into the river 







