104 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



identified as the historic grayling. Some eight years 

 after the discovery of Prof. Cope that we had the gray- 

 ling in American waters, Mr. D. H. Fitzhugh, Jr., sent 

 some of them to Mr. Charles Hallock, then editor of 

 Forest and Stream, and they were shown in New York 

 "to the doubters, who even then were not convinced. 



Mr. Fitzhugh took great interest in the new fish, 

 which, as a lumberman and an angler, he had long known 

 as a "Michigan trout," but had never recognized as 

 the gentle grayling, and he has since done more than 

 any other man to popularize it and introduce it to 

 anglers. 



He invited Mr. Hallock, Prof. Milner, and myself to 

 come up and fish for it, and we each extolled its attrac- 

 tions in the press. As a consequence, the fish has been 

 nearly exterminated by vandals who fish for count, and 

 the waters where we fished at first are nearly barren. 



Of all game fishes the grayling is my favorite. It is 

 gamy but not savage ; one does not feel the savage in- 

 stinct to kill that the black bass or the pike raises in 

 him, but rather a feeling of love for a vigorous fighter 

 for its life who is 'handicapped with a tender mouth. 

 To me the fish is always thought of as the " gentle 

 grayling," and the "golden-eyed grayling," although 

 the latter epithet is not always a correct one, owing to 

 the changes in the iris. 



In fishing for grayling it is well to use a medium- 

 sized fly of a subdued color ; a yellow body and a brown 

 wing is the fly that should be used if only one is 



