THE GRAYLING, AND BAIT-FISHING FOR. 431 
of which are otherwise suitable. Such a pond, of an acre or 
so in extent, exists to my knowledge within a few miles of 
Ludlow. It is fed by a fine spring, and the grayling which were 
put into it, I have been assured, both thrive and fatten won- 
derfully. Unfortunately a reference to my notes does not enable 
me to say whether they also breed. As a rule it has been 
found by experiment that even in ponds where they will live 
—such as those, for instance, newly cut in hard soil or which 
have been recently and thoroughly cleaned—they do not breed. 
Of the counties producing these fish, probably Herefordshire 
and Shropshire contain the best, as they certainly contain the 
most celebrated streams ; the former includes the Teme, Lugg, 
Wye, and Arrow, and the latter the Clun and the Teme, dis- 
tinguished as the head-quarters of the well-known Leintwar- 
dine Club. 
In Hampshire and Wiltshire, the grayling is found in the 
Test, Wharf, and in both the Avons ; in Staffordshire, in the 
Hodder, Trent, Dove, Blythe, and Wye ; in Derbyshire, in the 
Dove ; and in Merionethshire, in the Dee, between Curleen and 
Bala; in Lancashire, in the Ribble ; Yorkshire, in the Der- 
went, Yore, Wharfe, Rye, Swale, Costa, and Dove ; Berkshire, 
in the Kennet ; Scotland, Clyde and (perhaps) Annan. 
‘Grayling,’ observes Mr. H. R. Francis, ‘are oddly distri- 
‘buted in the British Isles. I know of few in Scotland or 
‘Treland, while in England the streams haunted by them seem 
‘capriciously distributed in groups according to no traceable rule. 
‘ Yorkshire has many, chiefly to the north and east ; Derbyshire 
‘many ; Lancashire, as far as I know, only the Ribble. South- 
‘ward, after an extensive Azafus, we have the grayling streams 
‘of Shropshire, and Herefordshire, and again not a few in the 
‘south of South Wales. There are good grayling in several of 
‘the principal Hampshire streams, and I think I have heard of 
“a few in Wiltshire, but in the centre and south-east of England 
‘they are not to be found.’ 
Of the above grayling waters by far the finest streams are 
the Dove, the Lugg, the Test and the Teme. The last-named 
