8(5 Thirtif-First An mud Meeting 



llic i-iiii)l)<)\v ti-oiit wi'iv not destroying the speckled trout in the 

 ^Michigan waters. 



The President : Was tlie grayling driven out hy another 

 planting? 



Mr. C*oulter : The theory of the average mortal along thosa 

 streams, who has lived all his life there and watched the disap- 

 pearance of the native graylings, is tliat the speckled trout have 

 destroyed the grayling, and in turn the rainbow trout is destroy- 

 ing the speckled trout, and you cannot convince him of anything 

 else. T think at one time the Boardman river had some grayling 

 in it; it was at first a native grayling stream, and the grayling 

 was afterward replaced Avith speckled trout, and today you will 

 catcli aljout half and half, l)ut the speckled trout are disappear- 

 ing every year. 



The President: I have 1)een told by your Michigan fisher- 

 men that the grayling Avas a fisli you could fish out more easily 

 than you could trout ; that you could go to a pool and catch every 

 one of tliem ; that is, they did not appear to be affected and get 

 shy as others do, by the disappearance of their mates, but you 

 could take the last grayling out of the pool and he would bite as 

 eagerly as though he had not lost any of his companions. 



My. Clark : I think that is true. 



Mr. (1. W. M. BrowTi, of Michigan : 1 went into the wilder- 

 ness of ]\Iichigan early in 1869 and 1870 on the Pere Marquette, 

 Baldwin (Veek and Percy rivers particularly. On the first day 

 of May, IS!)'-^, myself and a friend caught Ki.") grayling in one 

 pool in llii' ATanistee river in eighteen mile hixy. That is the 

 last i\\\\ that I ever had fine fishing for grayling. The ])olicy of 

 the ^licliigan Fish Coniinission foi- the last two years has het'ii 

 in planting I'ainhow trout to put them in the larger streams 

 where the water gets too warm for brook trout — in the Pere Mar- 

 (|uet1e and th(> AuSaljle, Imt we do not furnish any rainbow trout 

 foi' the sniallci- lii'ook trout streams. For ten years I have Ix-en 

 engaged in raising brook trout on a |M-i\ate, protected stream, as 

 line a stream as T ever saw, and the rainl)ow trout do not run in 

 that stream at all : hut right at the mouth of the stream last Jime 

 1 cauglit foui- I'ainhow trout that weighed eight and one-half 

 pounds, although not a rainbow ti'out has het'n caught in that 

 stream in tin- last ten years weighing a (piarter of a poimd. It is 



