288 GRAYLING. NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 



Branch and North Branch, and another stretch of six miles 

 from a point two miles below North Branch to Ball's 

 Bridge, near Big Creek, being substantially all, in the fifty 

 miles. 1 learned very little of the river beyond IJig Creek 

 that being the most distant point ordinarily visited. 



Min,ixt<-?. The upper waters of the Manistee, where the 

 grayling of that -Iream are nou chiefly found, are ca-ily 

 reached by a good road from Grayling, of eight mile>. 

 The fishing extends with decrea-inu' excellence, down to 

 the rail-road, near Walton. The Manistee empties jnio 

 Lake Michigan. 



rinlHWjun. This river runs northward. lt> upper 

 waters are reached from Gay lord -(a rail road town, twenty 

 einht miles north of Grayling) by a drive of from ten to 

 twenty-five miles. It has not been much fished, and its 

 grayling are reported to be larger and more abundant than 

 in any other stream in Michigan. 



rSf/K>/i l\ir, r, another northern stream, is highly -poken 

 of. but 1 obtained no definite information about"it. 



For a trip, limited in time and easy lo make, ihe An Sable 

 and Manistee rivers oll'er Ihe best inducements lo the fisher- 

 man; but. doubtless, there is finer sport as well as harder 

 work on Ihe Cheboygan. All these streams were originally 

 extremely dillicult of passage, on account of the "sweep 

 ers " and snags. Since the grayling has come to favorable 

 notice some of the rivers have been "cut out" and rendered 

 easy of descent, notably the An Sable and the Manistee. The 

 .Ionian has ceased to be a grayling stream, the popular 



