Excerpt from The Practical Fly-Fisher: More Particularly for Grayling or Umber With 10 Plates, Coloured by Hand, Representing 120 Files, Natural and Artificia

Our residence on the River Yore, which is decidedly a Grayling stream, long since drew my attention more especially to that dainty fish; and I have marked with the greatest satisfaction, the rising reputation of that inhabitant of our silvery flood during the last few years.

We are told that the "Monks of old," renowned as well for good cheer, as charitable deeds, and noble works, introduced the Grayling to the streams near their principal residences; which appears probable, as it is in perfection when the Trout is out of season. I admire their taste, and respect their memory for the legacy they left.

The fact of the Grayling being in season for some months when the Trout is scarcely fit for table, and the readiness with which it rises at the fly, renders it, in my opinion, particularly worthy of the Fly-fisher's notice; and although not so gamesome as the Trout, yet in the Summer and Autumn, its weight and strength, with the tenderness of its mouth, render it, perhaps, a more difficult fish to take, than even its more resolute brother, the Trout.

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