AND FISHING. 65 



Fishing one day for grayling with an artificial 

 fly, made to a single hair, and a fine line to a 

 slender rod, I rose and hooked a large fish ; he 

 now began to run very hard, for I had risen 

 him over some willows, and I had no winch to 

 give him line, which made me fearful of losing 

 my fish, and part of my line ; he next took a 

 turn down the stream, which enabled me to extri- 

 cate myself from the willows. I leaped a large 

 ditch, keeping my fish in full play ; my diversion 

 became highly pleasing, the contest lasted full 

 twenty minutes, when he fairly gave it up, and, 

 retreating with caution, brought him flat on some 

 gravel, it proved to be a fine grayling, weighing 

 five pounds. Taylor s Angling. 



Ludlow appears the head quarters, before they 

 set off, in April, for the principality. The public 

 conveyances begin to move to the watering 

 places. The Terme, the Corve, the Clun, and 

 the Onny are the principal streams in the imme- 

 diate neighbourhood of Ludlow. The grayling- 

 here appears brisk and frolicsome, swimming in 

 the middle of the water. The Terme bears the 

 palm for the grayling ; the Corve for the most 

 delicious pink trout, and fine eels, chub, &c. &c. 

 The sportsman's localities are every where at his 

 command in the vicinity of Oakley Park, through 

 the great liberality of the proprietor, the Hon, 

 R. H. Clive. Sporting Mag. April, 1835. 



