494 The Michigan Grayling. 



and then almost inaccessible. The following- passage, however, from 

 "American Fish Culture " (p. 196), by the present writer, and 

 published by Porter & Coates, in 1867, soon after Professor Cope 

 described the fish, attracted the notice of Mr. J. V. Le Moyne, of 

 Chicago. 



" While on a trout-fishing excursion lately in the northern part 

 of Pennsylvania, I met a very intelligent, though not a scientific 

 person, who informed me that in exploring some timber lands on the 

 Au Sable, in Michigan, he came across a new kind of trout which 

 he had never seen before. From his description it was doubtless 

 this new species of Thymallus. He said it readily took a bait of 

 a piece of one of its fellows, a piece of meat being used to capt- 

 ure the first fish ; and that it was very beautiful and of delicious 

 flavor." 



The following summer, after consulting persons interested in 

 timber lands, Mr. Le Moyne packed his " kit " and found his way 

 by steamer to Little Traverse Bay, and thence by canoe through 

 a series of lakes to the River Jordan, where he had great sport, 

 not only with grayling, but with trout of good size, taking both 

 from the same pool, and not unfrequently one of each on the same 

 cast. I may here mention that the Jordan is one of the few 

 streams of Michigan in which both are found. Trout are unknown 

 in the Manistee and Au Sable. My friend, Mr. D. H. Fitzhugh, 

 Jr., of Bay City, the year following, took them in the Rifle and 

 went by a new railroad then being built to the Hersey and Muske- 

 gon, walking twenty miles of the distance. He had been waiting 

 with much interest the extension of the Jackson, Lansing, and 

 Saginaw Railroad northward, .and in 1873, when it crossed the 

 Au Sable, he launched his boat high up on that lovely river. 

 Since then the fame of the rare sporting qualities of this fish has 

 spread among anglers, and they now come from many of our large 

 towns and cities (especially those of the West) to camp on the 

 banks of the Michigan rivers and enjoy the sport. 



The European species ( T. vexillifer) is mentioned by all English 

 authors on angling from the time of Dame Juliana Berners to the 

 present. The opinion is advanced by some of them that it was 

 introduced into England when under the religious sway of the see of 

 Rome, as it is generally found in rivers near the ruins of old monas- 



