176 Modern Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water. 



1874 Mr. Daniel H. Fitzhugh, Jr., urged me to go and 

 get their eggs. The fish inhabited streams in the lower 

 peninsula of Michigan which ran east or west, but no 

 others. The books said the fish spawned in March, and 

 so Mr. Fitzhugh and I went on the Sable River on the 

 28th of that month and caught a number, but they were 

 not ripe. I brought some live fish back to Honeoye 

 Falls, because I could not wait for the spawning season, 

 and left on April 2. Then Seth Green tried it and got 

 to the river on April 30, and found that the fish were 

 through spawning. He dug about 100 eggs out of the 

 gravel and took them to Caledonia, N. Y., where his 

 partner, Mr. A. S. Collins, hatched a few, but did not 

 rear them. 



Then there was a rush of anglers to the stream, for I 

 had three columns on grayling fishing in "Forest and 

 Stream" of April 23, 1874, and Norris, Hallock, Milner, 

 Dawson, Bowles and others went for the grayling. The 

 next year Mr. Fitzhugh and I were on the river from 

 April 5 to 15, and struck it right. (See "Forest and 

 Stream," May 13, 1875, from which I take the follow- 

 ing) : "Of the 118 fish taken four were fully ripe and 

 their eggs flowed freely ; six more yielded a portion. A 

 fair proportion of milt was obtained and the eggs were 

 packed in cups and boxes. A few were given to N. W. 

 Clark & Son by Mr. Fitzhugh, and 8,000 were taken to 

 Honeoye Falls. Had it been possible to have stayed a 

 week longer we could have easily got ten times the 

 number ; but as my leave of absence (from Prof. Baird) 

 had expired we left Camp Bowles on the nth and went 

 up the river to spend one day fishing for yearlings." 



The eggs hatched in about twelve days after incuba- 

 tion. They were small and light in color, measuring 8 to 

 the inch. The fish were small, with a very small sac, 



