Identifier: favoritefishfish00hens (find matches)
Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ese circumstances for manyyears has resulted, unfortunately, in the In Michigan passing of the Michigan grayling. Over-fishing and the incursion of the trout havebeen mentioned as probable causes, butneither factor could possibly have producedthe present state of things. The streamshave since been stocked with brook andrainbow trout, and efforts are being madeto introduce the Montana grayling. In Montana In Montana the grayling is restricted to tributaries of the Missouri River above theGreat Falls, except where recently planted.Until within the past few years it inhabitedonly the three forks of the Missouri—theGallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers andtributaries—and Smith River and tributa-ries below the three forks. It is still abun-dant in these waters and lives in amity, asit has done for all time, with the red-throattrout and Rocky Mountain whitefish. That the grayling should inhabit only thewidely separated regions of Alaska, Michi-gan and Montana is remarkable. The Arc- 50
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The Grayling tic grayling is regarded as the parent stock, Distributionwhile the others are possibly relics of theglacial period. This seems probable in con-nection with the fact that in the mountainswhere the sources of the Jefferson Riverarise, there is a deep lake, some four mileslong (Elk Lake), that in addition to gray-ling Is Inhabited by the Great Lake, orMackinaw, trout. This trout is found no-where else west of the Great Lakes exceptin Canada. Beginning with 1874 numerous attempts Propagation ofwere made to propagate the Michigan gray- ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ling artificially, but after repeated failuresall effort In this direction was abandoned.When a station of the U. S. Fish Commis-sion was established at Bozeman, Mon-tana, In 1897, the Commission, under mysupervision, began a series of experiments Ingrayling culture, resulting In complete suc-cess, so that for several years millions ofgrayling have been hatched and planted,and millions of eggs have been shipped toother stations of the

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