tution, where it was identified as the lake trout. As it was sent from 

 the postofHce at Henrys Lal?;e the inference was that it came from that 

 lake. Henrys Lake is a very shallow body of water, quite weedy, and 

 not at all adapted to this deep water fish. I have collected it from Elk 

 Lake, weighing several pounds. Eggs from Lake Superior whitefish 

 and lake trout have been hatched at the Bozeman Station and several mil- 

 lions of the resultant fry have been deposited in Falthead Lake, where it 

 is noped they will find a congenial home. 



THE GRAYLING. (Thymallus montanus). 



The grayling, the "lady of the streams", is as trim and graceful, and 

 withal as beautiful as a damsel dressed for her first ball. Her lovely 

 iridescent colors and tall gaily-decorated dorsal fin, which might be 

 compared to a gracefully waving plume, must be seen fresh from the 

 water to be properly appreciated. The grayling is not only a clean 

 and handsome fish, but is as game as the trout, and in my opinion much 

 better for the table. It was taken in the Jefferson river a century ago 

 by Lewis and Clark, and though they gave a fair description of it in the 

 history of their wonderful expedition, it remained unidentified until it 

 became my good fortune a few years ago to recognize it as the grayling 

 trom the description of Captain Lewis. 



The grayling is supposed ' by some to be a cross between the red- 

 throat trout and the whitefish, in other words a hybrid; but I hare never 

 seen a hybrid fish in wild waters. Hybrids can be produced by the 

 fishculturist between closely allied species, but the progeny is infertile. 

 The grayling is a distinct species, allied to the salmon family, more dis- 

 tinct in fact than as between the rainbow and steelhead trouts. It is a 

 different species from the Michigan or Arctic graylings, though closely 

 resembling both. It became my good fortune, also, to be the first to 

 propagate the grayling artificially, under the auspices of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries, it having time and again resulted in failure with 

 the Michigan grayling. 



The grayling is found only in Alaska, Michigan and Montana. In 

 Montana it exists only in the tributaries of the Missouri River above the 

 Falls. Its ideal home is in the upper reaches of the Madison and Jeffer- 

 son. The upper canyon of the Madison and the basin west of the Yel- 

 lowstone Park are especially adapted to the grayling. There the water 

 is swift, but unbroken, the bottom being composed of dark obsidian 

 sand. In this region grayling of two pounds are not uncommon. 



THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WHITEFISH. (Coregonus Williamson! 



cismontanus). 



For some inexplicable reason this line game-fish is not properly ap- 

 preciated by many anglers m Montana. This is probably mere preju- 

 dice, but it seems unaccountable when it is considered that there are 

 only two other game-fishes in the eastern portion of the state — the red- 

 throat trout and the grayling. I consider the whitefish equal to the 

 native trout in gameness, as eager in rising to the artificial fly, as ready 

 to respond to bait, and as good, if not better, as a lood-fish. Its flesh 

 is firm and flaky, of a sweet flavor, and never has that muddy or earthy 

 taste as in trout from weedy waters. 



