disappeared a jew rods away, around a bend 



this could readily be done, as a rule. 

 Throughout the trip this boat carried one 

 man and some duffle. It could have carried 

 much more. 



At very few places could we have made 

 much headway up-stream. The current is 

 too swift. The natives pole their boats up 

 the river, hugging the shore, but we should 

 have needed a few summers' practice to 

 duplicate the feat. 



There are literally scores of good camp- 

 ing places along the Au Sable, particularly 

 throughout the upper two-thirds of the 

 river. Its course winds about through sandy 

 hills, bending sharply every few rods, cir- 

 cling the base of steep slopes. On top of 

 these bluffs, among the jack-pines or scrub- 

 oaks or on lower levels, half a dozen feet 

 above the water, are good camp sites in 

 abundance. Of clear, cold springs there 

 must be hundreds, almost thousands, from 

 source to mouth of the river. Along the base 

 of many of the bluffs water trickles out in a 

 continuous belt, for fifty, a hundred or two 



hundred feet, so freely that a hole scooped 

 in the sand and gravel quickly brims full. 



To our limited experience, at least, the 

 Au Sable seemed a great stream for fish. 

 There were no grayling. We caught none, 

 and old-timers told us that seven or eight 

 years had passed since the last one was 

 hooked in the river; but there was an abun- 

 dance of brook and rainbow trout. 



Undoubtedly the best way to fish the 

 stream from a boat is to slip slowly down, 

 anchoring from time to time above likely 

 pools or eddies, and casting down-stream, 

 perhaps allowing the fly to float with the cur- 

 rent a little. As is probably the rule in other 

 streams, the trout are to be found near 

 springs, or the outlet of a cold brook, in the 

 warmer hours of the day. The rainbows 

 seem to frequent the rapids. We caught no 

 large fish. Two 12-inch rainbows were the 

 largest. But we had plenty of 8- and 10- 

 inch fish and enjoyed many a meal of them. 

 Of flies we made most use of the brown 

 hackle, coachman, royal coachman, queen 



