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wilds of Michigan. Spawning in the month of April, and 

 being in good condition from July to November, when the 

 streams in our country shall have been, made populous with 

 this active tenant of the brook, the fly-rod will be in use 

 from the beginning to the closing of the Northern fishing- 

 season. 



In the early history of this fish its limit in America was not 

 designated any lower than the arctic regions, " where," says 

 Richardson, " a splendid specimen was found, requiring as 

 much dexterity to land as a trout six times its size." Its habitat 

 in a lower region than the Mackenzie River is still denied by 

 some, but, thanks to the ardent and enterprising fish-cultur- 

 ist, Frederick Mather, Esq., the ubiquitous Seth Green, and 

 the persevering editor of Forest and Stream, the matter is 

 set at rest in the minds of all reasonable men. 



Although an old inhabitant, and often taken in Michigan 

 ;vnd Montana, this fish has not been identified until the past 

 two years as the true grayling. 



Some years since it was found in the Au Sable River, in 

 Michigan, and the attention of Frederick Mather, Esq., the 

 well-known pisciculturist, was called to it, and he has since 

 been breeding them at his hatching-house, at Honeoye Falls, 

 New York. 



Seth Green, who is an accomplished fly-fisher as well as 

 an experienced fish-culturist, visited the Au Sable region in 

 the spring of 1874, took eighty of these fishe8 and transport- 

 ed them to the Caledonian Trout-Ponds, New York. He as- 

 certained that they existed also in the Muskegon, Manisterc, 

 Boardman, Sheboygan, Au Gris, Rifle, and Marquette Rivera. 

 They have been since discoveied in the Jordan and Bowen, 

 and are said to exist in all the rivers of the Grand Traverse 

 region. As they have been found in Montana, they will no 



