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considerable currency among anglers to the 

 effect that grayling and trout are antagonistic, 

 and that to this cause is to be attributed the 

 decrease of grayling in the waters of Michigan. 

 My observations have led me to the conclusion 

 that this opinion is not supported by any evidence 

 whatever. When I fished the streams of that 

 state, years ago, both trout and grayling were 

 plentiful in the same waters, and were living in 

 harmony as they had done from time immemorial. 

 Their habits and choice of locality being different, 

 the trout hiding under cover and the grayling 

 lying in exposed pools, their struggle for exist- 

 ence or supremacy does not bring them much in 

 opposition, or cause them to prey on each other 

 or on their eggs or fry in an unusual degree, or 

 to such an extent as to effect the marked decrease 

 of either species. Honors are even. It is the 

 same in Montana. In that state the red-throat 

 trout and grayling seek out such portions of the 

 streams as are best suited to them ; but very often 

 they are found together on neutral ground, where 

 they live peaceably and not at variance with each 

 other. As no disturbing element has yet been intro- 

 duced, their numbers still bear the same relative 

 proportion that has existed since the days of yore. 



