CHAPTER XXXIII. 



"What I know" about grayling and grayling streams 

 ( in addition to diligent reading on the subject.) consists 

 only of what I saw during these two days, and of what I 

 learned by persistently interviewing our boatmen, other 

 fishermen wherever I found them during our trip, and 

 from the " local authorities " on fishing. Hut such int'or 

 mation as I picked up. I believe to be accurate and reliable, 

 and worth repeating for the benefit of the lovers of good 

 sport. Sifting it, I ivive the results, as follows: 



I. (Ii; AYUM. STISKAMS IN NOKTIIKKX MICHIGAN. 



Tin- A" .s'///>/r, running eastward to Lake Huron. This, 

 perhaps, is the most widely known of the Michigan gray 

 ling streams, and as a consequence, has been over fished. 

 From a point six miles below Grayling to Hig Flood Wood 

 in Iosc<. County, there is. with exceptions, grayling fish- 

 ing: onliinn-ij, down to South Hranch ; fair <nnl lntl<i\ be- 

 tween South Hranch and North Hranch (except in still- 

 water for three miles below South Hraneh); r.i-n-fft-nf, in I5ig 

 Creek which comes in from the south, about five miles be 

 low North Hranch, and being, by the windings of the river, 

 about fifty miles from Grayling. Then; is very little still 

 watei' in the Au Sable, that of three miles between South 



