Among the Grayling, Trout and Rainbow of Michigan 2 
any other season of the year, for insect 
life, in larval or winged form, is in less 
abundance, and our Thymallus doubt- 
less revels in the luscious spawn of the 
precdine “trout. “And so it. is, tit.for 
tat the world over, on the earth and in 
the water. 
We leave the subject to more argu- 
mentative minds than we possess, be- 
ing content to wait until the logging, 
which we hear is happily nearing its 
end, ceases to,be practiced on the beau- 
tiful and productive streams of North- 
ern Michigan. 
Anent therainbow: Eastern anglers 
have seldom had the opportunity of 
creeling the rainbow trout east of the 
Alleghanies. These fish do not thrive 
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Y., where the State Fish Hatchery is 
located, a few of these fish are taken, 
and in a limited number of deeper and 
broader waters an occasional specimen 
is caught, but of all the millions of fry 
that have been planted in public streams 
and club waters in the East, only a 
mature fish, here and there, has been 
reported as captured on the rod. For 
instance, we placed for three seasons 
successively about 20,000 fry, and five 
hundred yearlings of the rainbow in 
the head-waters of the Hackensack river, 
in New Jersey, upon which the Quas- 
peake Club is located. These plantings 
were made in 1891, 1892 and 1893 and the 
waters thoroughly protected, and yet 
not a single fish has been taken by the 
club members, nor reported from the 
lower, deeper and longer waters of the 
Hackensack river, which flows eventu- 
ally into New York bay. If Doctor 
Jordan is correct in his announcement 
that the steel-head trout (or salmon so- 
called) is the matured sea-running form 
of the rainbow, we can easily 
account for the disappearance 
of these fish through their in- 
stinct to go to salt water, as 
the streams west of the Alle- 
ghanies afford them easy access 
to the ocean. But then again, 
ite tie “Et renchs broad s(N./C.); 
and its tributaries, the rainbows 
are numerous and constant, and 
these waters flow into the Atlan- 
tic at only a slightly increased 
mileage over the waters of Cen- 
tral New York. This matter of 
rainbow habitat is as vexed a 
muddle to clarify as the gray- 
ling question—logs vs. fish or 
trout vs. grayling. 
If the rainbow stays not in 
waters east of the Alleghanies, 
he does so in those west of these 
