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THE SPORTSMAN'’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
the following is quoted from the Report 
of the Michigan State Fish Commis- 
sioner : ‘‘ In the list of fish (?) indigenous 
to Michigan, not the least in affection- 
ate interest is the speckled trout. In- 
vestigations verify the fact that speckled 
trout not only exist here, and that, too, 
in many portions of the State, but that 
they are here in all the inimitable in- 
vestiture of their prime and glory. Speci- 
mens have been shown the Commission, 
obtained from the 
streams of Northern 
Central and Northern 
Michigan, equaling in 
every respect their New 
England, New York, 
Pennsylvania and 
Rocky Mountain con- 
geners.” 
While trout are taken 
with numerous grub 
and angle worms, still 
quite often all these will 
fail and a brilliant col- 
ored imitation of a fly 
lure them ; and herein 
to a great extent con- 
sists the science of the 
fisherman, in judging 
what style of fly is ap- 
propriate to a peculiar state of the at- 
mosphere or locality. The brightness or 
dullness of the day ; the clearness or 
otherwise of the water, and the appetite 
of the fish, have all to be taken into 
consideration ; indeed, the fisherman 
cannot have too great a variety of flies 
A party of seven gentlemen from Bloom- 
ington, Illinois, guests of the Lake View 
House (Mullet Lake), captured three 
hundred and eighty-three of the speckled 
beauties in three days, during July, 1879. 
Judge Bobo, and two other gentlemen 
from Decatur, Indiana, caught one hun- 
dred trout on August 3d, near their 
camp on the Jordan, about two and a 
half miles from the mouth A party of 
nine Traverse City gentlemen visited 
Glen Lake, and captured one thousand 
and fifty-two of this delicious fish in a 
few hours ; and, discouraged by the vo- 
racity of the numbers that seemed to 
demand an opportunity to be victimized, 
beat a hasty retreat. The Kalkaskaian 
of August 15th, 1879, says: ‘‘ On Tues- 
PINE RIVER, CHARLEVOIX. 
day last Mr. Wesley Street caught a 
speckled trout in the Boardman River, 
above town, that weighed three pounds, 
and three others weighing from fifteen 
to seventeen ounces each.” Any num- 
ber of incidents could be given of large 
catches, but the above will suffice. 
the grayling: “The American grayling 
is peculiarly a Michigan fish, our waters, 
so far as definitely ascertained, being the 
sole and fortunate possessor of this 
greatly admired, and, as many believe, 
the ‘coming’ fish. Their habitat is the 
The Fish Commissioner thus speaks of 
