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The spawning season of the Montana grayling is 
in April and May. The average size of this fish 
is ten to twelve inches in length and a half 
pound to one pound in weight.” 
Dr. James A. Henshall: “The Montana gray¬ 
ling is fully the equal of the brook trout or red- 
throat trout in game qualities, putting up as good 
a fight, and often leaping above the surface when 
hooked. It takes the artificial fly, caddis larvae, 
grasshoppers, angleworms and similar bait. The 
best artificial flies to use are those of peacock 
herl, or yellow-bodied flies, as: Professor, 
Queen of the Water, Oconomowoc, and Lord 
Baltimore; or, Grizzly King, Henshall, Coachman 
and the like. Small flies should be used, on 
hooks Nos. io to 12. Grayling may be taken 
from May to November, the best time being in 
the summer.” 
Charles Hallock: “The generic name thymal- 
lus is derived from Thumallos, the Greek term 
for thyme, from the impression the Greeks had 
that the fish possessed the odor of this herb. 
The artificial breeding of the grayling was suc¬ 
cessfully carried on twenty years ago (1863) by 
Mr. Kauffer Royal, fisherman in the Garden of 
the Royal Veterinary School. Frederick Mather 
and Seth Green, our eminent pisciculturists, have 
both bred the grayling successfully by the arti¬ 
ficial process.” 
The artificial propagation of the Montana 
grayling was begun at Bozeman, Montana, in 
1898, and, under the able direction of Dr. Hen¬ 
shall, the superintendent of the fish hatchery of 
the United States Bureau of Fisheries there, has 
proven very successful. 
Professor Milner: “There is no species 
sought for by the anglers that surpasses the 
grayling in beauty. They are more elegantly 
formed than the trout, and their great dorsal fin 
is a superb mark of beauty. When the well-lids 
were lifted, and the sun-rays admitted, lighting 
up the delicate olive-brown tints of the back and 
sides, the bluish white of the abdomen, and the 
mingling of tints of rose, pale blue, and purplish 
pink on the fins, it displayed a combination of 
living colors that is equalled by no fish outside 
of the tropics” 
Fred Mather: “The grayling has all the fins 
of a trout, * * * while its crowning glory is 
its immense dorsal * * * nearly three inches 
in length by two high * * * with eighteen to 
twenty rays dotted with large red or bluish tints 
surrounded with a splendid emerald green, not 
seemably represented by the painter’s art; it is 
that changeable shade seen in the tail of the pea¬ 
cock. But, you want to see him come in on a 
line, with his fins all standing, and your eye will 
then give you a better notion than all the cold¬ 
blooded descriptions could ever do.” 
Eugene McCarthy: “The grayling should be 
mentioned in connection with the Salmonidae. 
Unfortunately, its habitat is confined to a very 
limited area of country, and it is, therefore, 
known to but comparatively few anglers. Pri¬ 
marily it is a native of the rivers and streams of 
Alaska, but, it is found also in some of the 
streams on the west side of the Yellowstone 
Park, and in the rivers of northern Michigan. 
In Michigan, however, it is being rapidly exter¬ 
minated by anglers, and to a far greater extent 
by sawmills. It is beyond question one of the 
most beautiful fish found in the United States, 
not even excepting the male Sunapee trout. Its 
color is a brilliant, purplish gray, the sides of the 
head having bright bluish and bronze reflections. 
The fins have alternate rows of rose, dark, and 
green colored lines or spots. It is impossible to 
describe properly the beauty of this fish; it must 
be seen to understand Nature’s painting.” 
No doubt Dr. Henshall, who has had great 
experience in breeding the Montana grayling, or, 
Mr. Hallock, who has written so extensively and 
so well on the three grayling species; or, Mr. 
Mershon of Saginaw, Michigan, who has creeled 
the Michigan grayling for many seasons; or, 
Drs. Jordan and Evermann, the recognized mod¬ 
ern authoritive ichthyologists, could, if they 
would, enlighten us as to the species Mr. Moore 
says he finds in Colorado, and tell us how it 
originated in Colorado and how long it has been 
there. Perhaps Dr. Henshall’s artificially-bred 
Montana grayling has been introduced in Colo¬ 
rado; perhaps this species or the Michigan spe¬ 
cies is indigenous to Colorado—has been in this 
State’s waters for years and escaped the notice 
of our naturalists; or, perhaps it has been lately 
propagated there by Nature—its spawn adhering 
to the webbed feet of wildfowl and carried from 
other States to the Colorado streams. 
Mr. Moore’s contention and the comments I 
here make, will, I hope, encourage others to dis¬ 
course on the subject—if their discourse be pleas¬ 
ant and gentle as well as studious—, and since 
the ichthyologist has been well cared for in the 
foregoing paragraphs I will conclude my contri¬ 
bution with a brief guide word for the angler: 
In Montana grayling fishing may be enjoyed 
in the tributaries of the Smith or Deep River in 
the Little Bell Mountains, and in the upper parts 
of the Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson Rivers. 
Excellent spots are near the upper canyon of the 
Madison, and in Odell, Red Rock and other 
creeks at the head of Red Rock Lake, the sources 
of the Jefferson. 
In Colorado try the Yampe River, the Elk 
River and the White River, where Mr. Moore 
says he caught his grayling. 
In Michigan try the well-known streams of the 
northern peninsula, where the grayling has of 
late years been allowed to save itself from ex¬ 
termination and increase in numbers owing to 
the decrease in logging and milling caused by the 
wasteful lumberman neglecting to plant as welt 
as profit from the trees he destroyed. The after¬ 
growth of timber affords sufficient protection for 
the grayling, and since the millman’s sawdust no 
longer clogs the streams and ruins the spawning 
grounds and as the Forestry Commission will 
protect the sheltering foliage of the future there 
is hope of saving “the flower of fishes”—that has 
the sweet odor of water-thyme, the tints of the 
rainbow, and the rays of the violet and the rose. 
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