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tilled to be a great brook-trout I'egion, as the railway facil- 

 ities now permit its being stocked. 



The Pigeon and Sturgeon rivers, flowing nearly north 

 into the Straits of Mackinac, at Shel)oygan, are well 

 stocked with grayling. 



From the Straits around to the head of Grand Traverse 

 ^Say are the rivers and brooks which contained brook-trout 

 before any were planted by the State. Originally there 

 were grayling in all these streams, but for twenty years or 

 more these hsh have been so scarce here that they have 

 really ceased to be grayling streams. South of the Board- 

 man River, which Hows into Grand Tiaverse Bay to our 

 imaginary line, is a distinctively "grayling country." 

 The main rivers are the Manistee and the Muskegon, the 

 whole region spoken of being drained by their tributaries, 

 except two much shorter streams, the Pere Marquette and 

 White rivers. 



This comj^rises the grayling region of Michigan. There 

 is one stream on the Upper Peninsula, about twenty miles 

 from Houghton, where grayling are found — the east or 

 north branch of the Ontonogon River, crossed by the 

 D. S. S. & A. R. R. 



The rivers and their branches above mentioned are most 

 conveniently reached frotn the interior of the State by the 

 Michigan Central Railway (Mackinaw Division) for the 

 eastern and northern, and l^y the Grand Rapids, Indiana, 

 & Chicago and West Michigan for the western streams. 



Over a large part of the territory described the grayling 

 has beyond question become very scarce, mainly by reason 

 of the indiscriminate fishing of the citizens, lumbermen, 

 and hunters, as well as fishermen from other States. The 

 lumbermen and hunter have speared and netted and used 

 dynamite for meat during the close season. The others 

 have killed more than they could use. The running of 

 logs has undoubtedly done great injury to the grayling 

 by the disturbance of their spawning beds, as they use the 



