292 GRAYLING. NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 



"scan- the tisli." l>rown-haekle is called the best, the 

 grizzly-king, good. The local tMii-rmcn say. "Avoid bright 

 nil in your Hie.-:" hut .Mr. Wiley had line success \vith 

 the red Hy. A good trout -caM of -mail Mies is well adapted 

 to grayling fishing. Change the cast only for dark and 

 light day< ihriu'lit Hies for dark days); make no change for 



Handling the rod in this fishing differs in no respect 

 from casting for tr-out. except that it is sometimes well to 

 let the Hies sink two or three inches in the water, and then- 

 is less necessity for the alert "strike,'" while it must he 

 remembered that the grayling has a tender mouth. 



He is a simple, unsophisticated tish. not wily, but shy 

 and timorous. He is a " free biter," and is bound to dis- 

 appear before the multidude of rod- waved over his devoted 

 head. The -port he alVords in his capture, the taste he 

 -ratifies in the frying-pan, and the alluienients <>f the 

 charming streams he inhahiK all conspire with his Sim- 

 plicity to destroy him. Could he hut learn wisdom from 

 his crimson spotted cousin, and would the sportsman have 

 pity on this beautiful and gentle creature of the smoothly 

 gliding rivers, he would long live to wave the banner of 

 beauty and glory in the cold, clear streams of the North. 

 r.ul that cannot be. 



