against it with an eager rudeness,-he-no, he does not bite, he recoils, he gazes again with surprise and suspicion on the little charmer; he fades back slowly into the deeper water, and then suddenly turning his tail towards the disappointed bait, he makes off as fast as he can,---yonder,--yonder,---and disappears! No, that's he, leaping yonder from the wave; Jupiter! what a noble fellow! What leeps he at-- a real fly--- Damn his eyes!' growled the Corporal.

"You might have caught him with a minnow,' said Walter, speaking for the first time.

"Minnow!' repeated the Corporal gruffly, 'ask your honour's pardon. Minnow!---I have fished with the yellow-dun these twenty years, and never knew it fail before. Minnow !--- baugh! But ask pardon; your honour is very welcome to fish with a minnow if you please it.'

666 'Thank you, Bunting. And pray have you had to-day?'

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what sport

"Oh,---good, good,' quoth the Corporal, snatching up his basket and closing the cover, lest the young Squire should pry into it. No man is more tenacious of his secrets than your true angler. Sent the best home two hours ago; one weighed three pounds, on the faith of a man ; indeed, I'm satisfied now; time to give up;' and the Corporal began to disjoint his rod. 'Sir,' said he, with a half sigh, a pretty river this, don't mean to say it is not; but the river Lea for my

money. You know the Lea?---not a morning's walk from Lunnun. Mary Gibson, my first sweetheart, lived by the bridge, --- caught such a trout there by the by!--- had beautiful eyes --- black, round as a cherry--- five feet eight without shoes ---might have listed in the forty-second.'

Bulwer's Eugene Aram, 1832.

The Welsh Coracle Trackle, or Fishing Boat. -They are constructed of willow twigs, in the manner of basket work, and are covered with a raw hide, or canvas, pitched in such a manner as to be water-proof; they are generally five feet and a half long, and four broad, their bottom is a little rounded, and their shape resembles the half of a walnut-shell, a seat across the centre, towards the broad end. The angler paddles with one hand, and casts his flies with the other, and when his work is finished brings his boat home on his back. They are used in fly-fishing, for grayling as well as trout.

Hansard's Trout Fishing.

Mill-Burnfoot Trout.---At Thankerton, 1811, in the river Clyde, might be seen at the top of the bridge, when the water was transparent, a trout, which had been an inhabitant of these places twenty years, and had also eluded every artifice the ingenuity of sportsmen had devised to catch

him, he obtained his name from the part of the water he usually inhabited.

They are found in the Humber, the Wye, and the Severn,-in this last place the best method of fishing for them is in a coracle, as described page 62. The grayling is very similar in his haunts to the trout, delights in rapid and clear streams, they rise more boldly and freely, than the trout, feed upon the same sort of flies, and take gentles, in pursuit of which they are very sportive, and determined; if missed, they will pursue, and attempt to take the same fly,-though, when taken they are very inanimate. Lapland is said to be most plentifully supplied with this fish.

Editor.

The grayling is longer, and not so round as the trout, it seldom exceeds sixteen inches, has no teeth, but the lips are like a file; when in season,

the back is of a dark colour, and the sides grey: for flavour they are preferred to the trout, they are in season in winter; the haunts of the grayling and trout are the same. After the angler has hooked his fish, the greatest caution is required to prevent the barb breaking its hold.

Bainbridge's Fly Fisher.

Mr. Franks says, the Umber, or grayling, is an amorous fish, that loves his life; his mouth waters after every wasp, as his fins flutter after every fly for, if it be but a fly, or the produce of an insect, out of a generous curiosity, he is ready to entertain it, smooth and swift streams enamour him, but not a torrent; yet, for this flyadmirer there is another bait, the munket, or sea-green-grub, generated amongst owlder trees, also issues from willows, sallow, &c. &c. fish him finely, for he loves curiosity, neat and slender tackle, and lady-like; you must touch him gently, for he is tender about the chaps, a brandling will entice him from the bottom, and a gilt-tail will invite him ashore-Hansard's Trout Fishing.

Walton says, the largest graylings are eighteen inches in length; Mr. Pennant asserts that one was taken at Ludlow, that was half a yard long, and weighed four pounds six ounces.

Donovan, p. lxxxviii.

Fishing one day for grayling with an artificial fly, made to a single hair, and a fine line to a slender rod, I rose and hooked a large fish; he now began to run very hard, for I had risen him over some willows, and I had no winch to give him line, which made me fearful of losing my fish, and part of my line; he next took a turn down the stream, which enabled me to extricate myself from the willows. I leaped a large ditch, keeping my fish in full play; my diversion became highly pleasing, the contest lasted full twenty minutes, when he fairly gave it up, and, retreating with caution, brought him flat on some gravel, it proved to be a fine grayling, weighing five pounds. Taylor's Angling.

Ludlow appears the head quarters, before they set off, in April, for the principality. The public conveyances begin to move to the watering places. The Terme, the Corve, the Clun, and the Onny are the principal streams in the immediate neighbourhood of Ludlow. The grayling here appears brisk and frolicsome, swimming in the middle of the water. The Terme bears the palm for the grayling; the Corve for the most delicious pink trout, and fine eels, chub, &c. &c. The sportsman's localities are every where at his command in the vicinity of Oakley Park, through the great liberality of the proprietor, the Hon. R. H. Clive. Sporting Mag. April, 1835.

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