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a coin])arati\X']y small stream and cold all the time; tlicv do not 

 run out of the laro-er rivers into tlic smaller streams 



Mr. Clark: 1 did not l)rino- up this sul)ject to d(d'end the 

 rainbow trout for a moment. l)eeause it is immaterial to me which 

 tisli Me have. 1 like the brook trout personally just as well as I 

 do the rainl)ow trout. The part T wished to hrinii' out was this: 

 I wanted to know positively whetlier raiid)ow trout U'i\ upon 

 other trout. Xow, ]\Ir. Brewster has spokt'ii of the AuSaljle 

 river. The records show that the rainbow trout Avere the first 

 ever planted in this stream, and old Tnele Dan 1^'itz lluuli was 

 the man who put them there; and everybody knows what he had 

 to say about the grayling and what he knew about it. This bitter 

 tish was plentiful there before the l)rook trout came, but tliev 

 never ha^e been so numerous as the brook trout wow are, and I 

 do not believe they ever will be, right in the An Sable river. If 

 anybody can demonstrate to me that the rainbow troiit fishing is 

 better between two or three miles above Steven's Ijridge and down 

 Itelow AVickley's bridge than it was ten years ago, I would like to 

 know it. 3Ir. Dickerson doesn't find it so — as he told nu'. They 

 do not get any large rainl)ow troiit above Wakley's bridge, except 

 in s])awning season but catch them in deej) water. 1 have seen 

 the rainljow trout up that river in ^larcli when you wardens are 

 not there, and have seen a five-pound raiid)ow trout five miles 

 al)ove Steven's bridge; those large fish have been caught clear to 

 the up dam during the spawning ]3eriod. When we wei\' hauling 

 seines and catching brook trout for propagating pnr]50ses. we cap- 

 ture(l nearly as many raiid)ow trout fry as we did brook ti'out 

 fry; but the large fish drop down in the deeper water where you 

 do not get any brook trout. 



^Ir. Brewster; I thiidv in 1S!)1 the first rainljow ti-out was 

 taken on the Bourdman river l)y Winnie of Traverse City. The 

 river at that time was pretty well stocked with native grayling, 

 and the7-e were some native hrook trout in the stream. It had 

 been stocked heavilv with brook trout, and from that time until 

 1S!I.-) or 1896 the brook trout fishing was good. Now more than 

 .-)(l ])er cent of the trout taken from that river art- X\\v rainbow 

 trout and the brook trout are gone or are becoming scarce. There 

 are no grayling then" at this time. I do not agree with my friend 



