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  Grayling
As Sungirl mentioned on her site, Grayling came about when we looked at young Strongbow in Wolfrider and wondered what he might have been like if he had stayed a little more like that - lean rather than wiry, with a little more meat on his cheekbones and a generally more vulnerable disposition.
Grayling was born two years later, and the entire tribe was uneasy.
Grayling and Hansha became lifemates, and the young fisher who never wanted to be a chief found himself leader of the Jackwolf Riders.
www.intotheaetherworld.com /elfquest/swiftverse/grayling.html   (1490 words)

  
 Grayling
Grayling sailed for Pearl Harbor 17 December, arrived 24 December, and had the honor of being chosen for the Pacific Fleet change of command ceremony 31 December" 1941.
Grayling returned to action in June as all available ships were pressed into service to oppose the Japanese advance on Midway.
Grayling left Australian waters 18 March on her sixth war patrol and cruised in the Tarakan area and the Verde Island Passage.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g7/grayling-iv.htm   (718 words)

  
 Arctic Grayling: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Grayling occur throughout the arctic as far west as the Kara and Ob rivers in Russia and east to the western shores of Hudson Bay in Canada.
Grayling are especially popular because of their willingness to rise to a dry fly.
Grayling are often easy to catch, but, as with other species, the most skilled anglers with the best knowledge of grayling feeding patterns and how to fish the water will be most successful.
www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/fish/grayling.php   (776 words)

  
 www.fishing.co.uk
Large grayling are known to feed upon small fish, and in Scandinavian countries spinning with tiny lures is a recognised method for catching these sporting fish.
Like all salmonids, grayling spawn on clean gravel, excavating a small redd in the gravel in which their eggs are laid.
Growth: Grayling spend their first month of life within the gravel, first using up the food reserves in their yolk sack, and then actively hunting small invertebrates that live between the particles of gravel.
www.fishing.co.uk /species_display.php3?id=19   (389 words)

  
 Anvik and Grayling Fieldwork Trip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grayling is a small bush village located along the Yukon River in western Alaska between the Innoko national Wildlife Refuge (to the east) and the Nulato Hills (west).
This is a vew of the Yukon River Flats between Anvik and grayling.
Grayling Creek is an anadromous fish stream and is probably used by these bears during late summer and into the fall for salmon feeding areas.
www.schively.com /jeff/anvik_grayling.html   (813 words)

  
 What's At Stake: MONTANA ARCTIC GRAYLING NEED YOUR HELP
Reduced to one short section of the Big Hole River, the Montana fluvial arctic grayling is the last river dwelling population of the species in the continental U.S. It is behaviorally and genetically distinct from grayling in Canada and Alaska and lakes in the U.S., from which is has been isolated since the Ice Age.
With these low flows, grayling populations have declined precipitously and spawning this year is likely to produce few replacements because of the low flows and warm water temperatures.
Grayling were given a low priority based on a plan to reintroduce the fish into more streams and a drought management plan that promised to keep critical flows in the river.
www.actionnetwork.org /campaign/grayling/explanation   (422 words)

  
 Bering Sea.com: Communities: Grayling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grayling is located in Interior Alaska on the west bank of the Yukon River east of the Nulato Hills.
The population of Grayling is comprised of Holikachuk and Ingalik Indians.
Grayling's economy is heavily dependent on subsistence activities, and employment is found primarily in seasonal work during the summer.
www.beringsea.com /communities/index.php?community=138   (561 words)

  
 The Arctic Grayling - A Grail Of Sorts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But most noteworthy was the grayling’s large sail-like dorsal fin, shaded with iridescent blue or pink spots and a stripe along the top margin of the fin of a similar color.
Grayling flare their dorsal fins when they are aggressively challenging or defending feeding positions or territories from grayling or other competing species.
Grayling use their dorsal fins during spawning for competitive displays between males, and in the act of spawning.
www.outdoorcentral.com /mc/pr/03/05/09e7.asp   (519 words)

  
 grayling fly fishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The presence of grayling in a river used to be considered a nuisance however nowadays lots of anglers derive a great deal of pleasure fly fishing for grayling during the trout close season and catching grayling whilst trout angling during the summer months.
Grayling fishing is best and most enjoyable during fine, clear days when the water is not high and dirty.
Fly fishing tackle for grayling need not be overly heavy because the fish themselves are seldom over two kilos, therefore a #5 outfit is usually perfectly sufficient, except for those who prefer to throw a team of heavy weight Czech nymphs and use something stronger in case of breakages.
www.letsflyfish.com /graylingpage.htm   (697 words)

  
 Grayling Michigan Township
Grayling Township is located in beautiful northern Michigan's Crawford County.
The Grayling area is the ideal place to live, work and play.
Grayling Township supports a complete building department, comprehensive recycling/composting center, household trash compactor, Fish Hatchery Nature Park, tax-assessing department, fire department, and cemetery.
www.twp.grayling.mi.us   (166 words)

  
 Fluvial Arctic grayling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In contrast to still-common lacustrine/adfluvial populations, fluvial arctic grayling appear adapted to inhabiting riverine environments year-round (Kaya 1991 and Kaya and Jeanes 1995).
The fluvial Arctic grayling population of the Big Hole River is monitored annually in the Wisdom area.
Arctic grayling derived from the brood may be used to augment the Big Hole River population, if necessary, and to reestablish other populations within their native range.
www.fisheries.org /AFSmontana/SSCpages/grayling_status.htm   (1875 words)

  
 The Grayling Society
The Grayling, however, survived in parts of North America and in the Danube basin and from those refuges, over the following centuries, it re-colonised Canada, most of Europe and parts of Asia.
Preferring swift running water with deep currents and gravel, or rock and gravel beds, the presence of grayling in a river is a sure indication of the purity of the water.
Grayling are also found in lakes, particularly in northern parts, but in the United Kingdom it is usually where the still water is part of a river system.
members.aol.com /rsharp4097/tgs.htm   (594 words)

  
 Fly Fishing Internet: The Grayling
The Grayling, or Thymallus thymallus as it is scientifically termed- so called because of wild thyme smell, is one of the most beautiful, most respected and loved yet also the most victimised freshwater fish in the northern hemisphere.
Fossils of grayling and their relatives the trout, salmon, char and whitefish are rare because their habitats are not very conducive to fossil formation - they do not inhabit muddy and swampy areas which are the ideal situations for the formation of fossils.
The grayling, whilst being members of the salmon family, spawn in the Spring - leading, of course, to the misconception that are one of the coarse fishes.
www.ffinternet.com /html/grayling.htm   (1630 words)

  
 Inside the Gray Matter of an Arctic Grayling, Alaska Science Forum
Large grayling always lurked closest to the bottom of the deepest pools, while smaller fish hung at medium depths.
Vascotto and Morrow were able to recognize individual grayling, and they found that grayling usually had a favorite spot they occupied all summer.
A larger grayling would move alongside the smaller grayling as if it were preparing to parallel park.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF13/1339.html   (606 words)

  
 Grayling
Young Grayling are a light silvery green with bluish spots on their sides, mature fish, a greyish green back, greenish sides and a white belly.
The favourite haunts of Grayling are hollows eaten away by water washing around boulders or under overhanging trees and bushes.
The grayling once caught will fight relentlessly until tired, once landed hold the fish in the current until it sufficiently revives.
www.maggotdrowning.com /fish/grayling.htm   (262 words)

  
 Cabela's Iditarod - The Trail - Anvik to Grayling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 18-mile run from Anvik to Grayling is a straightforward march on the north side of the river, and should be uneventful, even for the most accident-prone.
Grayling is a really pretty village of 200 residents, with big log homes situated in birch and spruce.
From a practical view, the mushers appreciate Grayling because it is a good place to escape the predictable flow of cold air on the river.
www.cabelasiditarod.com /trails_anvik_grayling.html   (568 words)

  
 grayling on Encyclopedia.com
Graylings are found chiefly in clear, cold, fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
The American species include the arctic grayling, said to reach 4 lb (1.8 kg), the now scarce Michigan grayling, and the Montana grayling, found in the tributaries of the Missouri.
Graylings are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Clupeiformes, family Salmonidae.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/g1/grayling.asp   (573 words)

  
 Arctic Refuge: Grayling Map
Arctic grayling have adapted to the rigors of the climatic and physical environment of the arctic.
For almost nine months of the year, grayling are confined to relatively small reaches of stream and river channels for overwintering.
After break-up, which begins in late May or early June, Arctic grayling expand their distribution to include streams and rivers that were previously frozen.
arctic.fws.gov /graylingmap.htm   (317 words)

  
 A Fish Called Grayling May Make Reappearance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
GRAYLING -- A fish named for this northern Michigan city vanished from state waters more than 70 years ago, but it will be back if a private group has its way.
The Grayling Fish Hatchery steering committee is trying to raise $1 million to reopen a hatchery that operated for 50 years after it was established in 1914 -- shortly before grayling disappeared from the Lower Peninsula.
Although native to Michigan, the grayling vanished from Lower Michigan around 1915 and from the Upper Peninsula in the 1930s.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/grayling2004.html   (165 words)

  
 grayling fishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fly fishing for grayling is a challenging sport and the grayling “lady of the stream” is a beautiful and interesting fish.
Grayling are bottom dwelling fish, they feed mainly on nymphs, shrimps, worms and larvae and other river borne foods but they do rise keenly to the surface for hatching flies and often take them with a delicacy that belies the fish’s size.
Grayling may be indigenous in some parts of the UK but they has been introduced to many other areas by humans for either food or sport.
www.letsflyfish.com /grayling.htm   (413 words)

  
 Sportfisherman.Net - Fish Species - Grayling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grayling are common in the northern half of Canada, from Hudson Bay west.
The fishing for Grayling is usually dreat all summer long unless the fish move back to a larger river or lake after the spawning has been completed.
Grayling feed primarily on insects and salmon eggs; they occasionally eat mollusks, crustaceans and small fish.
sportfisherman.net /sportfish/fish/grayling/grayling.htm   (169 words)

  
 Michigan Grayling Only a Memory
Early historical accounts tell of grayling that "lay like cordwood in the AuSable." With our state as their only Midwestern home, Michigan grayling were descendants of fish that found a niche and thrived in our state's waters after the glaciers of the Ice Age receded.
Grayling were closely linked with the north woods and the image of beauty and romance attached to Michigan's then-untamed wilds, correctly associating them with unspoiled wilderness.
While some argue Michigan's grayling population was doomed anyway, the most evident factor in the species' disappearance was the cutting of Michigan's vast virgin forest in the 1800s.
www.michigan.gov /dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-53612--,00.html   (586 words)

  
 Grayling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grayling (butterfly), Hipparchia semele, common on heathlands in Britain
Grayling is also the name of several places:
Grayling is also the name of several ships; see USS Grayling.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grayling   (101 words)

  
 Kelso Fishing UK : Grayling fishing on River Tweed and Teviot in Scotland
Grayling fishing is available at £5 per day or £25 for the season.
Grayling are found throughout the Kelso waters, there are resident shoals at the Maisondieu on Teviot and at the Anna (island) below Scurry Rock on Tweed.
Summer grayling fishing is also available using a trout ticket from 1st May until 31st August.
mysite.freeserve.com /kelsofishing/grayling.htm   (302 words)

  
 USS GRAYLING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She was not heard from after 19 August 1943, and on 30 September 1943, GRAYLING was reported as presumed lost.
At any rate, it is certain that GRAYLING was lost between 9 and 12 September 1943 either in Lingayen Gulf or along the approaches to Manila.
GRAYLING’s first patrol, made in January and February 1942, was a reconnaissance of the northern Gilbert Islands.
www.csp.navy.mil /ww2boats/grayling.htm   (627 words)

  
 Fish & Fly - Jon Beer - 10/99 - Grayling
Their season is longer - which is another reason I wanted grayling, not trout, in the Cherwell: I would be getting get a lot of funny looks and awkward questions if I were seen fishing in the coarse fish close-season.
So, there were these grayling surplus to requirements and they had to put them somewhere and so they put them in the Cherwell and a good time was had by all but mostly, it has to be said, by me. I had a fine head of grayling on my doorstep.
But it was a grayling and they are creatures of whim, they may hang around for a while or they may not.
www.fishandfly.co.uk /jbedit1099.html   (912 words)

  
 A.C. Grayling - Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, Univ. of London
Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumary Fellow of St Anne's College.
He is a past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, and has been involved in UN human rights initiative.
Anthony Grayling is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.
www.acgrayling.com   (232 words)

  
 Grayling --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Named for the once plentiful grayling, the city developed as a resort for summer and winter sports.
Graylings are handsome, silvery-purple fishes, which reach a length of about 40 cm (16 inches).
The trouts, salmons, chars, whitefishes, and graylings of the family Salmonidae are the most widely known and intensively studied family of fishes.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037814?tocId=9037814   (569 words)

  
 Grayling High School
Grayling High School is committed to an educational partnership between school and community that enables
As the parent of a student new to our district, you'll have many questions regarding your child's education, and you will be given several items to assist you in the enrollment process.
Grayling is about an hour east of Traverse City, two hours northwest of Saginaw and two-and-a-half hours north of Lansing.
www.casdk12.net /GHS04   (1128 words)

  
 Flyfishing For Grayling - John Roberts
Since writing 'The Grayling Angler' there has been a considerable increase of interest in grayling fishing in both the UK and Europe - the Grayling Society's membership has seen fourfold growth in that time.
I now know more about grayling than I could ever have cobbled together from magazine articles, and feel far more confident about catching my first grayling than I ever did with my first trout.
If you're a grayling fisherman who has read a copy and would like to comment - let me know.
www.fishandfly.co.uk /bookrevs/grayling.html   (345 words)

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