Nefiigon River Fishing 



proach the picturesque mass of Red Rock, 

 the headland of a sandstone range skirt- 

 ing Lake Superior, marking the mouth 

 of Nepigon River. An old post of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company is here. That 

 company's discretion must be praised, if 

 any among the picked men it employs 

 surpass its present agent at Red Rock in 

 shrewdness, tact, and courtesy. His atten- 

 tion, directed by correspondence that can 

 hardly be opened too early in the season, 

 will have prepared everything as to guides 

 and their provisions ; and the canoe will 

 wait, already loaded, for the voyageur to 

 step into it. 



Guides are usually to be had in plenty, 

 and of great variety. It is safer to engage 

 good ones beforehand, rather than run the 

 risk in July or early August of finding that 

 they are all up the river, and waiting a 

 couple of days for a returning party. At 

 that season there are often thirty anglers 

 at once, scattered in camps along the 

 stream, each pair of whom, if properly 

 equipped, have at least two men to pilot 

 them. The calling has its leaders and 

 its learners. They differ greatly in skill, 

 endurance, and appetite, and, above all, in 

 temper, as might be expected from their 

 mingled strain of Scotch, French, and In- 



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