24 ANGLING 



Beck and it is believed to be strictly preserved. The one 

 advantage of having grayling in a trout stream is that they 

 afford sport during the winter months. Trout fishing goes out 

 on the ist October, and grayling are then getting nicely in 

 condition, their close season being the same as coarse fish, viz., 

 I5th March to I5th June. They spawn in April and May. 

 Mr. Hopper has given a long account of the grayling as it is a 

 fish that few Grimsby anglers have tried their hands at, but the 

 writer will now leave him and record a curious day's fishing 

 this season on the Ancholme. A fellow angler and Mr. 

 Hopper fished a short distance above Horkstow bridge. We 

 had a miserable day's sport, only capturing fifteen of the 

 finny tribe altogether, but out of the first ten fish there were 

 eight varieties, viz., white bream, perch, dace, roach, Tommy 

 Ruffe, gudgeon, eel, and whitling. The writer doubts if any 

 one of the fish weighed three ounces, whereas in the very place 

 where we were fishing Mr. Hopper's fellow angler had caught, 

 the week previously, i61bs. of roach, four of them scaling sllbs. 

 and on pievious occasions had caught carp bream up to 5lbs. 

 each. However, every angler knows that fish will not bite on 

 some days, and perhaps it is as well, for undoubtedly the 

 uncertainty adds to the excitement and charm of the sport. 



