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this was a case which bore out the generally 

 accepted theory, that they drop down stream. 



In the year 1879 the capture of a grayling 

 of i^lb. on the Marshcourt Shallow, about one- 

 and-a-half miles below Stockbridge, and six or 

 seven miles below Leckford, was deemed quite 

 remarkable. During 1880, 1881, and 1882 odd 

 grayling were killed in the upper reaches of the 

 Houghton Club water. In October, 1883, three 

 days' fishing at the upper part of North Head 

 Shallow yielded twenty-three, weighing 34-jlb. ; 

 and this part of the water was found to be fully 

 stocked with grayling, many of large size. The 

 point at which these grayling were taken is 

 fully three-quarters of a mile above the highest 

 point at which the members of the club con- 

 sidered it worth their while to fish after the 

 close of the trout season. Evidently this was a 

 case in which they had pushed up stream to a 

 favourable place, possibly because the natural 

 increase in their numbers had impelled some 

 proportion to migrate, so as to avoid over- 

 crowding. Unfortunately for the experiment, 

 coon after this a systematical carrying of gray- 

 ling to the upper reaches was put in practice, 

 and in a few years they were plentiful all over 

 the Houghton water, 

 introduction The second river on which I have had ex- 



the^pper 2 10 perience of introducing grayling was on the 



Kennet. 



