HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
Au Sable, the Muskegon, Hersey, Pine, 
~ Boardman—indeed, very many of the 
streams and rivers of Central and North- 
ern Michigan—possibly a majority of 
them—are believed to abound in the 
grayling. They have been caught, it is 
said, weighing four and a half pounds,” 
Grayling, unlike the trout, do not 
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wish, resort to angle worms or a bit of 
pigeon or red squirrel, and you will be 
pretty sure to take them. 
The Wexford county Pioneer, pub- 
lished at Manton, August 20th, 1879, 
has this: ‘‘ The grayling, the peer of any 
brook trout that ever sported in the’ 
clear blue waters of Northern Michigan, 
or the waters of any other land, 
and by experienced sportsmen con- 
sidered the royal fish, is being 
taken in large numbers from the 
creeks and rivers in this vicinity. 
Mr. D. V. Emmons, our druggist, 
a few days ago, brought in from 
Slagle Creek, a few miles south 
and west of this village, about 
| twenty-five pounds of the dainties 
| one of which weighed one and a 
half pounds — the result of a few 
hours’ fishing.” 
The past four years have wit- 
nessed extensive deposits of land- 
locked salmon in the numerous 
lakes of this region, and the wis- 
dom of such action on the part of 
the State Fish Commissioners has 
become more and more apparent, 
as now and again one of that spe- 
ecies has been speared in the wa- 
ters to which consigned. Buta 
BRIDGE OVER THE MANISTEE RIVER. 
hide beneath roots and logs, but lie 
motionless on the clear white sand 
and will rise from a depth of ten feet to 
what seems to them a delicate morsel, 
but which in reality may be nothing 
more than a “ brown hackle,” the most 
killing fly for the June fishing. (The 
“black gnat” is also good.) Like the 
trout, they will sometimes refuse to rise 
to the most tempting fly; then, if you 
short time since one of these glo- 
rious fellows was speared in Log 
Lake (situated two miles from 
Kalkaska Station), which turned the 
scale at eight pounds, measuring twenty- 
eight inches in length. Several instances 
of like nature have been reported, and 
there can exist no question but that be- 
fore many seasons have marked their 
course, the lakes of Michigan will be 
teeming with this magnificent member cf . 
the finny tribe. 
Extensive deposits of the fry of this 
