Popular Fresh=Water Game Fish 



Another species similar in appearance is the 

 rock bass, or red eye, also the warmouth, the 

 calico or strawberry bass, and the crappie, all 

 found in the same waters as the black bass; but 

 they are of little or no importance to the angler in 

 comparison. The warmouth (called a perch in 

 some localities) for its size is a gamy fish, so is the 

 rock bass ; both the latter rising to the fly, at times, 

 but so do many of the common fishes, not game, 

 to be treated in a separate chapter under that 

 name. 



GRAYLING 



The American grayling, like the mascalonge, 

 is confined to the Middle Western States, more 

 particularly to Montana and Michigan; notwith- 

 standing the many efforts to plant them in 

 Eastern waters, including those hatched 

 and shipped from Bozeman by Dr. J. A. Henshall 

 in 1898, they have resulted in no apparent good. I 

 know of no place in Eastern waters worthy of 

 being called "fishing" for grayling. The family 

 consists of three species: Michigan, Mon- 

 tana, and Arctic grayling, the latter having 

 the great dorsal fin much larger and more highly 

 colored, the two former being very similar in both 

 appearance and game qualities. It is a graceful, 

 trimly built, and delicate-looking fish, colored more 

 like "mother of pearl" than any fish I know. 

 Its habit is to lie at the bottom of deep, 

 slow-moving, clear cold water, and it rises to the 

 fly many times, swiftly darting back without taking 

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