HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
there, and can be coaxed out by careful 
fishing. The best way to take these shy 
beauties is to use a sinker and bait, ei- 
ther worms or ventral fin of a trout. 
These will lure them every time, pro- 
vided the fisher keeps out of sight. Like 
all streams, the best fishing is early in 
June. Then, any one pulling up stream 
until the brush steps them and slowly 
drifting down, fishing in the holes and 
drifts that the swift current has washed 
out, soon feels a whopper. Look out 
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snags and crossed by fallen trees, which 
makes successful navigation a problem to 
be solved only by tact and much prac- 
tice. In angling, the streams are inva- 
riably fished from boats, as the banks 
are a tangle, and the passage through 
the woods to them is almost impractica- 
ble; it is possible to wade, but by no 
means comfortable to do so. Streams 
are always fished down, for reasons that 
will become obvious enough when the 
angler reaches the ground. With aman 
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for your tackle! The stream is full of 
sunken logs, the brush grows into the 
stream. The fish are very game, and 
afford good sport to any one who cares 
about something more than yanking 
them out. Any one who can fish at all, 
can depend upon getting from fifty trout 
upward, per day. 
The author of “The American Club 
Lists” says of the Boyne and Jordan 
rivers: ‘‘ The upper portions of the Boyne 
and Jordan rivers, and, indeed, of all the 
Michigan forest streams, are filled with 
competent to handle the boat, this meth- 
od of fishing is greatly to be preferred. 
It can be made even luxurious. One 
can scarcely conceive a more favorable 
stream than the Jordan for this kind of 
work. For the first two miles after en- 
tering its mouth, the channel flows 
through a rush and grass meadow, and 
the current is comparatively sluggish- 
As the ridge or height of land is ap 
proached, it becomes very rapid and 
much broken. For ten miles it is amply 
wide for good fly-casting, and sufficiently 
