Grayling

French Nymphing for Grayling

Grayling and French nymphing were made for each other — the fish holds in clear, steady glides at precisely the depth a well-presented nymph reaches.

Long leader. Clear glides. Delicate takes.

Winter Grayling Nymphing

Heavy nymphs, slow drifts, deep runs, and the reward of fishing when nobody else will. The method that makes winter worth getting out of bed for.

Heavy nymphs. Deep and slow. Cold hands, warm heart.

Dry-Fly Fishing for Grayling

A rising grayling rarely announces itself the way a trout does — smaller, quicker, often just a dimple where a fish has come up from three feet down and gone straight back.

Czech Nymphing for Grayling

Grayling live where trout often can't be bothered — the fast, broken water at the head of a run, the deep seam beside a boulder, the kind of unglamorous water a dry-fly angler walks straight past.

The Duo for Grayling

The Duo asks little of the angler and a lot of a single buoyant dry fly: float, indicate a nymph's location, and — every so often — catch a grayling on its own account.

North-Country Spiders for Grayling

Three hundred years of Yorkshire and Derbyshire anglers have caught grayling on a wisp of partridge or snipe hackle wound sparsely round a hook, and the fish have not yet grown wise to it.

Upstream Nymphing for Grayling

Not every grayling angler wants to learn a continental leader system before catching a fish. Upstream nymphing is the accessible version — and it still catches plenty of grayling.

Pocket-Water Grayling

Pocket water looks like nothing — a boulder, a patch of white water, a seam no wider than a dinner plate — and grayling anglers who walk past it in search of a proper glide are leaving fish behind.