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 1 found them during our trip, and 

 from the " local authorities " on fishing. But such infor- 

 mation as I picked up, 1 I>elieve to be accurate and reliable, 

 and worth repeating for the benefit of the lovers of good 

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



I. — Grayling Streams in Northern MiCHiCiAN. 



The An Sable, running eastward to Lake Huron. This, 

 perhaps, is the most widely known of the ^[ichigan gray- 

 ling streams, and as a conseciuence, has been over-tisiied. 

 From a point six miles below Grayling to Big Flood Wood 

 in Iosco County, there is, with exceptions, grayling fish- 

 ing: — orduitwy, down to South Branch; fxlr (did better, be- 

 tween South Branch and North Branch (except in still- 

 water for three miles ])elow South Branch); e.rcelU nt, in Big 

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

 low North Branch, and 1)eing, by the windings of the river, 

 about fifty miles from Grayling. There is very little still- 

 water in the Au Sable, that of tliree miles between South 



