How can I actively target brown, rather than rainbow trout, in a mixed fishery?
More… > See more previously answered questions… I’m an American who recently spent a great day trout and grayling fishing with a R.A.F. friend on the Avon river near Lynham. I was wondering if the Graying in the English chalk streams are a different species from the American/Alaskan Grayling (T. Articus)? Dave Falter The European Grayling is Thymallus Thymallus and the American/Alaskan Grayling is the Arctic Grayling, Thymallus arcticus, as you know. If you want to find out more about this interesting fish, I suggest that you read Ronald Broughton’s book, The Complete Book of the Grayling. You can read my review of it here at Fish & Fly. In England the Grayling was regarded as vermin, particularly on the southern chalk streams, but it is now beginning to be better appreciated. This is in contrast to many European countries where it is held in higher regard than the Brown Trout. Terry Lawton I want to know which is the best approach to flyfish sea trout in big rivers? In night fishi
