FLY-FISHING ON THE NIPIGON. 



CINCINNATI, June 2, 1884. 

 MB. CHARLES F. ORVIS, MANCHESTER, VT. : 



MY DEAR SIR The box of flies made to my order, 

 and according to samples furnished by me, came just one 

 day too late to reach me at the Sault Ste. Marie as I went 

 north to the Nipigon Kiver last July. 



To a fly-fisherman whose usual resort is some New 

 England brook or river, such flies as these are simply 

 enormous ; but I believe that the trout in the Nipigon 

 Kiver would rise freely to a moderate-sized canary bird 

 if it could be properly cast. Although I missed this 

 fresh supply of flies, perfectly adapted to the stream, 

 our party of two were tolerably well supplied. We had 

 an abundance of small trout flies, tied in London, which 

 were not even noticed by the uneducated Nipigon trout. 

 We also had flies such as we had thrown for trout and 

 land-locked salmon on the Maine Lakes, and a few sam- 

 ples of your large " Lake flies " and two or three immense 

 gray hackles like those ordered. The large lake flies 

 and the large hackles were the correct thing where the 

 large trout were to be found. 



At the risk of telling you what you already know, I 

 will remark that the Nipigon River constitutes the real 



