The Michigan 

 Grayling 



The Montana 

 Grayling 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



The Michigan grayhng, in early days, 

 was known to lumbermen and trappers as 

 " Michigan trout," " white trout," " Craw- 

 ford County trout," etc. It was first de- 

 scribed by Dr. Edward D. Cope, in 1865, 

 who gave it the specific name of tri-color, 

 in allusion to the gay coloration of the dor- 

 sal fin. Until recent years it was abundant 

 in streams of the lower peninsula of Michi- 

 gan rising from an elevated sandy plateau 

 and flowing into Lakes Huron and Michi- 

 gan and the Strait of Mackinac. In a few 

 streams flowing into Pine Lake and Lake 

 Michigan, as Pine, Boyne, Jordan, etc., it 

 co-existed with the brook trout, but farther 

 south, especially in the Manistee and the Au 

 Sable rivers and their tributaries, the gray- 

 ling alone existed. In the upper penin- 

 sula it also existed in Otter Creek, near 

 Keweenaw. 



The Montana grayling, though men- 

 tioned by Lewis and Clarke from the Jef- 

 ferson River (to which fact I have recently 

 called attention), was not recognized until 

 seventy years later, when Professor J. W. 



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