440 SALMON AND TROUT. 
A run will of course be perceived as the bait is being drawn 
up, when a smart stroke should be given, and the fish held 
tightly. Otherwise from its non-fighting propensities, a large 
grayling is very likely to get off; the hook also is a good deal 
encumbered with gentles, When first struck, the larger grayling 
appear to me to fight as an eel fights—pulling tail backwards, 
instead of running down or away, head first, as other fish gene- 
rally do ; and I hardly ever remember seeing a hooked grayling 
spring out of water. 
The best spots for grasshopper fishing have already been 
described. Where the water is deep enough, a short line 
worked almost perpendicularly near the bank will be found 
most successful : but by throwing out a considerable distance, 
excellent water otherwise inaccessible can often be reached. 
The cast may be made over-hand like a fly to a distance of 
some ten yards, but care must be taken to allow the line to 
spread well behind, or otherwise the bait will perform various 
eccentric flights into the bank or bushes. A longish light rod, 
say fourteen or fifteen feet, is most convenient for grasshopper 
fishing ; ancl a very fine running line. 
As a rule, fish caught with the grasshopper are twice as 
large as those caught with the fly. September, October, 
November and December are the best months, and the best 
days are usually quiet warm days succeeding frosty nights—in 
fact, grasshopper fishing never fairly\gets into play until the 
first sharpish frost. From about 8 a.m. until 4 P.M. is com- 
monly the best time of day. 
The proportions of a Teme grayling of about one and a half 
pounds which I measured were :—total length of the head, body, 
and tail-fin being considered as five and a half, the length of the 
head alone as one. Depth of body slightly greater than length of 
head ; tail forked. As in all members of the salmon family, the 
grayling has two back fins, the second adipose or fatty. Number 
of scales in lateral line about eighty-seven. 
