A Guide To Grayling Fishing

Grayling is a distant relative of the salmon. So, what we would call a gain fish, and they live in clear rivers and streams in the northern hemisphere. This is the River Canit in Berkshire and there are lots of grayling here and there are in many parts of the country.

We catch grayling in two main ways. We catch them by fly fishing, and we catch them by float fishing. And here I've got a set of grayling, float fishing tackle, which some people would call trotting.

Trotting is the form of float fishing that we use when we're fishing in a river. And this is a specialist trotting reel, which is called a center pin reel, which enables us to feed the line, down the current to try to catch the grayling. So, here we go.

I'm going to give it a little go and see if I can catch a grayling. So, what I'm going to do is swing the bait out over to where I think the fish might be. And I'm now feeding line off the reel.

I got a bite then. So, I struck the bait to try to hook the fish. So, I'm now going to cast back out again.

This one is a grayling. Let's hope that it stays on the line. They do wiggle a lot in the water.

I'm using the rod to act as a cushion to try to and prevent from chasing free. Here we go. One grayling.

So, the grayling is famous for having a very large dorsal fin. This is the fin on the top here. It's got a post fin here, which tells you it's a relative of the salmon and the trout.

So, they're a beautiful fish. They are primarily a fish of northern climates and they thrive in the Arctic. They also thrive here in the south of England.

Slowly lowering the fish down into the water, that one's quite healthy. It's wiggled out of my grip. So, there you have it.

That's an introduction to grayling fishing and how we catch grayling. .