AUTUMNAL GRAYLING FISHING. 
CoMING as it does at the close of the trout season, this. 
branch of flyfishing has many devotees among that class of 
anglers who are impervious to the discomforts of the weather, 
and who wish to continue their favourite sport to the end 
of the year, for even during December, should the water 
be low and clear, there are frequently days of fine open 
weather, when at noon time the fish will rise readily. As 
the author of this little work devoted more ‘attention to 
flyfishing for trout than for grayling; and as during the 
past twenty years a number of killing patterns for grayling 
flies have been invented, I have thought it best to add a 
fresh chapter devoted entirely to that subject. The gray- 
ling is a great deal more capricious fish than the trout, the 
latter (if in the humour) rises boldly at your fly, sometimes 
with a considerable splash, but if he misses it, very seldom 
will he come again, unless under exceptional circumstances, 
Now a grayling will at times rise over and over again at 
‘your fly, and perhaps after missing it three or four times 
will be hooked and captured. I recollect once throwing 
over one eight times in succession, it missed the fly in each 
case, but I basketed him at last. You generally find that 
a proficient in this branch of angling possesses three impor- 
tant qualifications, viz., quick sight, a strong wrist, and 
sensitive touch, the first-named requisition being especially 
necessary, as the grayling is enabled, by its large dorsal 
fin, to rise so rapidly, and makes so little break on the sur- 
face of the water, that sometimes all that the angler sees is 
the gleam of its white belly, whereupon he should at once 
strike firmly but gently, otherwise possibly the fly will be 
