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| | Big Manistee River - Quest Outdoors, Ltd. |
 | | Like most other major rivers in Michigan, the name was taken from the Indians and is loosely translated as “Crooked River”. |
 | | The Big Manistee is one of Michigan's longest river systems, stretching about 232 miles from its origins in a cedar swamp in southeast Antrim County to it’s eventual culmination into Manistee Lake. |
 | | Some of these include, Wild Rose, Seeforellen, and Gilchrist Creek Browns, Michigan strain Chinook and Coho Salmon, Eagle Lake Rainbows, and Skamania and Michigan strain Steelhead, not to mention warm water species such as Catfish and Walleye. |
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