Origin of Name 



As a Game and 

 Food-Fish 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



waters. It is hoped that they may find a 

 suitable home in some of the streams thus 

 stocked. At the Bozeman station they have 

 been reared to maturity, and eggs taken 

 from these domesticated fish have been 

 hatched. This is considered a triumph in 

 fish-culture. Grayling eggs, by the way, 

 are smaller than trout eggs, while the newly 

 hatched fry are only about one-fourth of 

 an inch long, and are quite weak for several 

 days. 



The English name " grayling " is doubt- 

 less derived from its appearance in the 

 water, where it glides along like a swiftly 

 moving gray shadow. In Germany it is 

 called asche, from its gray or ash color in 

 the water. One of its old names in Eng- 

 land on some streams was " umber," a name 

 of like significance. 



As a game-fish, the grayling is considered 

 by those who know it best, both in this 

 country and England, when of correspond- 

 ing size, equal to, if not superior to, the 

 brown trout of England, the brook trout 

 of Michigan, or the red-throat trout of 



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