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really the ' somersault ' so well known to grayling 

 fishers. With a long line it is next to impossible 

 to strike a grayling on the instant, and a taut 

 line in this fishing is of even greater importance 

 than in trout-fishing." 



I have given the above liberal quotations be- 

 cause the article agrees so well with my own 

 practice in grayling fishing, and accords with the 

 habits of the American graylings as I have ob- 

 served them. 



