Favorite Fish and Fishing 



eggs and newly hatched fry. The annual 

 recurrence of these circumstances for many 

 years has resulted, unfortunately, in the 



In Michigan passing of the Michigan grayling. Over- 

 fishing and the incursion of the trout have 

 been mentioned as probable causes, but 

 neither factor could possibly have produced 

 the present state of things. The streams 

 have since been stocked with brook and 

 rainbow trout, and efforts are being made 

 to introduce the Montana grayling. 



In Montana In Montana the grayling is restricted to 



tributaries of the Missouri River above the 

 Great Falls, except where recently planted. 

 Until within the past few years it inhabited 

 only the three forks of the Missouri — the 

 Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers and 

 tributaries — and Smith River and tributa- 

 ries below the three forks. It is still abun- 

 dant in these waters and lives in amity, as 

 it has done for all time, with the red-throat 

 trout and Rocky Mountain whitefish. 



That the grayling should inhabit only the 

 widely separated regions of Alaska, Michi- 

 gan and Montana is remarkable. The Arc- 



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