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Wow - fab work! 

Thanks - twas a fun session....

I trust you're reporting their abundancy to the Grayling Society...

Grayling Society Catch Return Form 

Yeah - done that for years - even participated in providing data to a research project around 15 years ago....

Martin - my catch returns (nearly 1300 ladies over the survey period - via a log book scheme) contributed to this paper: https://www.wildtrout.org/assets/files/news/Grayling-Conservation-Guide_2018_v2.pdf 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Chris Plumb

How interesting! Have just seen this and flicked through to read later - it included some fab pics. i trust you were paid handsomely for your immense contribution.

Would you be prepared to write a piece on grayling for the next newsletter (Spring - won't start working on it 'til Feb)?

Edited December 17, 2022 by Bayleaf the Gardener

Ah Ha! Never got a penny! My contribution was submitting a log book of catches for 8 years from 2001 - 2009 - see page 28 onwards on the above report. Of those 82343 grayling logged, 1297 were my catches (nearly 16% of the total!)! These would have been from the Itchen, Kennet & Lambourn - I didn't join Dorchester &DAS to fish the Frome until 2011. Happy to pen a few paras on on one of my fave species - though think it would sit much better with NEXT winter's newsletter, they are very much a winter species in my eyes! The Grayling Scoiety continued an online version of this logbook scheme - in truncated form - after this initial research period and I have logged all my Grayling catches with them ever since!

Great work, Chris. Take your point about the Gray Gals being a Winter species. What would you consider a Spring fish? 

I 'penned' nearly 1500 words on Crucians last night - still work in progress - but should have a first draft to you before Christmas!!! Will do the same for Grayling next autumn! 

Wow - brilliant! I won't start collating the next issue until start of Feb, so do put your quill down for half an hour on Christmas day, won't you? 

Haha - finished it and sent it!