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band along the lateral line, common to both male and female. It 

 is a handsome tish with rather more gameness than the red- 

 throat trout, bnt not so vigorous on the rod as the steel-head 

 Trout of the same size. It grows to a larger size than the red- 

 llii'oat. Imt not so large as the steel-head. 



THE GRAYLIXG. ( TJii/DiaUiis iiKjnfatvm) . 



Her Ladyship, the grayling, is as trim and graceful and 

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

 l()\ely iridescent colors and tall gaily-decorated dorsal fin, whicli 

 might be compared to a graceful waving plume, inust 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 a trout 

 and much better for the talde. The grayling was taken in the 

 Jefferson river a century ago l)y Lewis and Clark, and though 

 they gave a fair description of it in the history of their expedi- 

 tion it remained unidentified until it l)ecame my good fortune a 

 few years ago to recognize it as the grayling from the descrijition 

 of Captain Lewis. 



Wliule the grayling is found in the three forks of the ]\lis- 

 souri, the Jefferson, ]\Iadison and Gallatin rivers, and in some 

 tributaries lower down the stream and above the Great Falls, its 

 ideal home is in the upper reaches of the Madison and Jefferson. 

 Tlie upper canyon of the Madison and its basin west of the Yel- 

 lowstone Park is especially adapted to the grayling. Tliere the 

 water is swift, but unl)roken, the bottom being composed of dark 

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

 uncommon. The United States Fish Commission has been very 

 successful in propagating the grayling at the Bozeman, Mon- 

 tana, station, and numerous waters have been stocked with tliis 

 desirable game and food fish. About two million fry have been 

 planted each season for several years in the streams contiguous 

 to the grayling auxiliary station at Eed Kock Lake at the head of 

 the Jefferson, ^^ith the result of swarms of one, two and three 

 year old fish. Grayling are so plentiful there that the trap can 

 be opened for only a short time wlu-n taking s])awners. othi-rwise 

 they would enter in such numbers as to threaten tlieni with 

 suffocation. 



As several million eags have been shipped to eastern stations 



