Some Truths about Trouting 125 



genial haunts. The Height of Land is only a short 

 distance inland, hence all the good streams of that 

 side of Superior are short, as they mostly are outlets 

 of small near-by lakes. Even the famous Nepigon 

 River, which might be termed the continuation of 

 the St. Lawrence beyond the Great Lakes, is only 

 about thirty-one miles long from its hasty exit from 

 its parent, Lake Nepigon, at Flat Rock, to its final 

 plunge into Nepigon Bay, an indentation of the 

 north shore of Lake Superior. The chief merit 

 of these north-shore streams is that they practically 

 are natural fishways connecting many small forest 

 lakes with the fresh-water sea. 



