IV. 



FLY-FISHING IN THE BAVAEIAN 

 HIGHLANDS. 1 



A MONG the tributaries of the Danube none 

 ^ has a better reputation for fish than the 

 Iller, which, commencing in the three streams 

 of the Trettach, the Stillach, and the Breitach, 

 among the Alps of the Algau, passes through 

 the Bavarian plains until it reaches the chief 

 river of Eastern Europe. In the first thirteen 

 miles of its course this stream flows down the 

 picturesque mountain valley generally known 

 as the Iller Thai, at the head of which is the 

 flourishing Bavarian village of Oberstdorf, sur- 

 rounded on the south by the high summits of 

 the Madelegabele, the Trettach Spitze, and the 

 i 1878. 



