ON THE FORDS OF TEME 105 
Io am. is a good time for beginning, later 
11 o'clock, or even midday, will be soon enough. 
One can go on fishing as long as there is any 
encouragement to do so, maybe until dusk in 
mild weather. If the season is not too advanced 
and if the water is right, grayling are almost sure 
to rise cheerfully at some time of the day. If 
they are not rising, and you wish to fish, then 
put on the wet fly (three flies if the river suits) ; 
if on the other hand they are rising, then fish 
dry. Why, the grayling then are calling to you ! 
Sometimes a particular fly must be used, if any 
business is to be done. Sometimes practically 
any grayling fly, especially when tipped with a 
dash of colour, will attract them. But you never 
know. The grayling is a challenge to study. 
You think you understand this game fish, and 
then you realize that you are contemplating a 
mystery. That is, perhaps, why the grayling is 
called the Lady of the Stream, 
That morning the Stroud angler had started 
at the far end of the association reach, in the 
Newnham Bridge direction. I had gone a little 
higher up, to within sight of Boraston Church, 
with its quaint spire. I had done nothing, When 
I had worked my way down I saw him, bewadered 
and in the water, supremely happy. Grayling 
were rising all around him. He had struck a 
gravelly ford such as the fish love. Already he 
had a nice bag, and he deserved it, for he cast his 
short line very prettily. The grayling sometimes 
missed or refused the fly, but they kept coming. 
