The purists will hate me for this, but I catch my first grayling each year on streamer! And it is not the small ones which behave like a predator, but usually fish beyond 45cm!
As long as the water is still cold, high and murky, I usually fish for big trout with streamers. Every year, sooner or later a large grayling will take the streamer and yesterday evening, the time had come! So far, I had caught grayling only on streamers with some orange or pink color to it. I planned to target trout exclusively during the last weeks, so I have fished with an olive woolly bugger this spring. But this grayling did not care! It took the WB ferociously and by its motions I immediately knew that this was none of my beloved browns, but a really nice freshwater-sailfish! Not the worst bycatch I must admit!