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Lake Superior and the Mississippi. ant
voyageurs used 1t as q main highway.
The fur traders and hoatmen fol
lowed the Brule from Lake Superior Il
the st. Croix, portrayed to the larger
river and padded down 1t to the Mis-.
sissippi.
Duluth, the French explorer. is tn.
nrst white man recorded to have fol-
lowed this route. He set out from
Sault Ste. Marie In 1880. He followed
perilous course along the shore oi
Lake Superior to the mouth of the
| Brule, assembled 1t by canoe, cuttins
down 100 beaver dams en- route, anC
portrayed 10 the St. Croix. which flows
southwest into the Mississippi. Dowr
this the Frenchman floated to the Mis-
| sissippi.
| Through the next century and a hall
hundreds OF his countrymen followed the
same route. In q diary written In 1908
and 1904 Michel Curot, French-C Cana
dian fur trader recounted his Diff
culties in ascending the Brule from the
lake to the st. Croix. Days were re-
Quired for the short trip.
Curot's first portage was at Gregory
Falls. three miles inland from the lake,
where the river bed is brown sandstone
and rocky ledgeS overhang the water.
This Is the only place such forma-
tion Is encountered. Nearer the water
shed which separates 1t from the St
Croix the stream becomes q mere rivu-
let. flowing between boggy banks
thatched with water birch.
But though navigable only for short
stretches, the Brule Is a hsherman's
paradise. Protected as It has been for
many years and restocked frequently
! It's waters TEEN with brook, rainbow and
German brown trout,
Last year, when the President was
thought to be considering coming to
Wisconsin for the Summer. the State
Conservation Commission planted In the
river some 5000 2-year-old brook trout,
which now average 10 inches In length.
The late Henry Clay Pierce also es-
tablished ON his Rrllle River estate the
largest private fish hatchery in the
country, Bred In the hatchery the fiSh
are forced" In treated ponds, where
they are fed special foods. including
liver, Periodically they are seined from
the ponds and their rationS are reduced
until, when dumped into the river, they
are hungry enough. as one fisherman
SAYS. ITO snap at a red flannel under
shirt"
You can take II from me-" says Il.
M Lambert caretaker oi the estate the
last IL years, that the President will
be able TO ind the good spots in the
Brule, A regular fisherman always
does, but a lot OF these dressed-up NY
fishermen don't"
Announcement OF the Presidents visit
has started the controversy In Wiscon-
sin which ragged In the Black Hills last
wear between devutees of the artificial
ny and the lowiy angleworm. But the
President viii be safe from eensure II
ne fishes with worms on the Hrule,
There 10 ID considered no disgrace to
catch trout with worms. There are
long stretches OF the river where low
brush makes ny fishing impossible, and
even the ny fishermen resort to worms
In the early part OF the season, when
hrule River rainbows refuse 10 rise 10
the nles,
When he tires of dragging out trout
from the hfule MIR. Coolidge can fish
the 81, CrnlN. which Ia almost as fa-
NOUS for ita plymouth black bass as the
hrnle IA for trout, and. finally, the dts
triet Ia sprinkled with lakes alive with
the granddaddy Of ell game Ash, the
hard-nehttng nuskellunee. as well as
baAs,
II will not even he necessary for the
President 10 stir from Cedar Island
Lodge to hsh the Hrule. The main
lodge Is built on an island. about one