Friday, December 28, 2007

The Grayling

Recently a good friend of mine shared some photos he took of some nice grayling. The grayling is a memeber of the salmon family and is not concidered a true trout. However, it is a beautiful fish with a high fan-like dorsal fin, from which it gets it's nickname "the lady of the stream". Grayling will take a fly, making it a good sport fish.


Please enjoy his photos.

3 comments:

  1. Hi David:
    Finally, you updated your blog after a long rest. I'd like to add that those grayling are caught in a river deep in Mngolia, and I have found that they are very similar to European grayling.
    Kyousirou

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  2. Kyousirou-san,
    Thank you for your comment and the nice pictures. I was not sure where you caught these grayling. Are there grayling in Japan also? Maybe in Hokaido area?

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  3. No, grayling is not distributed in Japan at all.
    Referring to the gayling in the pictures, I caught them in Mongolia.
    Grayling is widelyb distributed in Europe,and I caught them in Austria and in Slovenia. In the states, I caught it in the Gibbon River in the Yellowstone National Park.
    It is really a pretty fish!

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