158 THE ANGLER-NATURALIST. 



THE GRAINING. 



(Lewiscus Lancastriensis *.) 



The Graining is a very rare and local fish, in habits and 

 food somewhat resembling the Trout, the mode of angling 

 for it being also similar. It affords very good sport, and 

 is said to rise so freely when in the humour, that it is 

 often easy to fill a creel in a day's fishing. Sometimes, 

 though not commonly, the specimens exceed half a pound 

 in weight ; and their flavour is considered superior to that 

 of the Dace f, to which fish they bear a considerable re- 

 semblance in many points. 



The Graining is never found in ponds: the rivers in 

 which it is known to exist are, the Mersey, near Warring- 

 ton ; the Alt, Lancashire ; the Learn, at Leamington ; two 

 or three streams in the townships of Burton Wood and 

 Sankey, and several others near Knowsley Park, forming 

 the source of the River Alt. It is also found in the Lakes 

 of Neuchatel and Thun. 



* Leuciscus, the Dace, Gr. ; Lancastriensis, of Lancaster, Lat. 

 t Bainbridge's Fly-fisher's Guide. 



