Re: [VFB] Analphabethic grayling

[ashley strutt]

Hi Soren, I fish for Grayling on the chalkstreams and often find that I'll get a number of them when the fly is being affected by the drift.I don't think a drag free drift is always needed to catch grayling. Ashley ----- Original Message ----- From: Soren Finne To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: [VFB] Analphabethic grayling     Hello list,   Last night I was out to my club water to exercise casting and to try some new flypatterns for their floatability. Doing so I suddenly came to see two graylings swimming slowly towards me sipping pupaes in the surface. I had just tied on a small #18 "Hatching buzzer", which I�m by way is tying for the midge swap, so I made a cast and placed the fly about 1 meter ahead of the graylings. (I could almost feel the strike.) What happens, the grayling pair approaches the fly, separates and continue their swim toward me, parallell to the flyline. Calling all the dark forces I came to think of I pulled in the line quite rapidly with the fly skating on the surface scaring any fish within half a mile - except the two graylings who raced after the fly - one of them was faster and I was able to hook him. He was not more than 12" so he just had to make me a short visit before diving back to his friend again, but I had time to see that had the typical, beautiful back fin. I can�t remember reading a single book about flyfishing that doesn�t mention the importance of a dragfree drift so my conclusion is that I had the luck to met two analphabetic graylings. (excuse my spelling and grammar)   Greetings from Sweden Soren Finne