Outdoors: Night moves — Vampire fishing gets in the blood

GRAYLING, Mich. — On the iconic Au Sable River in the forested northern tier of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, it is not just dark that envelopes the waterway on this moonless night – it is as if the Creator pulled down the shades and in one omnipotent stroke, covered the landscape in a black ink so rich that it swallows up even the most minute glimmer of light.