292 GRAYLING. — NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 



"scare the tish." Brown-haekle is called the l)est, — the 

 iii-iz/Jj'-kiiig, good. Tlie local tishermen say, "Avoid hriuht 

 ml in your liies;" but Mr. Wiley had tine success with 

 the red lly. A good trout-cast of small Hies is well adapted 

 to grayling fishing. Change llie cast only foi- dark and 

 light days (bright files lor dark days); make no change for 

 seasons. 



Handling the rod in this fishing differs in 'no resju'ct 

 from casting for Irout, except that it is sometimes well to 

 let the files sink two or three inches in the water, and there 

 is less necessity for the aiert "strike;"' while it nuist b( 

 remembered that the grayling has a tender nidulli. 



lie is a sim])le, unsophisticated fish, not wily, but sh\ 

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

 iippear before the nuiltidude of rods waved ovei- his devoted 

 head. The sport he aflords in his capture, the taste he 

 gi'alities in the frying-pan, and the ailurenienls of Ihc 

 charming streams he inhabits, all conspire with his sim 

 l>licity to destroy him. Could he but learn wisdom from 

 his ci-imson-spotted cousin, and would tlie sportsman liaxc 

 pity on this beautiful and gentle ci-eature of the smoothl\^ 

 gliding rivers, he would long live to wave tlu; banner of 

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

 But that cannot be. 



