Nepigon River Fishing 



bed and board being managed in a very 

 improvised fashion while en route. Next 

 day, after a couple of hours' ascent against 

 a strengthening current, a long line of 

 white-caps racing across the broadened 

 river defines the upper edge of Alexander 

 Bay, where we first take the shore for a 

 portage. 



There are but two portages of any 

 length along the course of the river, one 

 the Long Portage, a path leaving the 

 stream below its majestic curve, as it 

 rounds with a tumbling torrent into this 

 bay, and bending away westward, reced- 

 ing from the almost inaccessible depths 

 that feed and frame Cameron's Pool, till 

 it drops to the outlet of Lake Jessie. Its 

 easy walk of about three miles is divided 

 by a brook, the only tributary to the river, 

 shortening the return portage by so much 

 of waterway. 



Above this, and again about the dis- 

 tance of one-third the length of the river, 

 Pine Portage sweeps back westward over 

 a rather more rough and wooded track of 

 a mile, quitting the bank by a steep, grassy 

 slope at the great rapids roaring out of 

 Hamilton's Pool outlet, and regaining it 

 not far below the outlet of Lake Emma. 

 Between these occur short carries, one 



