Nepigon River Fishing 



make slow way against the current. Their 

 weight from three to four hundred 

 pounds --makes them harder to handle 

 in swift water than the shells of the lower 

 river ; and the guides are therefore shy of 

 nearing the heads of the heavier rapids, 

 where the finest fish often lie. There, 

 while they hold in an eddy, the angler 

 can step into the rushing shallows along 

 the shore, wading as far as he may venture, 

 not over ankle-deep, for a long cast into 

 the whirling foam. As to bringing in a 

 great fish against that tearing torrent, he 

 must reckon oftener on losing than land- 

 ing him. 



Besides being a shipwright, a good 

 guide with his axe and a pound of nails 

 makes a fair cabinet-maker for the woods. 

 Abundant birch supplies the material out 

 of which he builds along one side of the 

 tent a bedstead, lifting its stretched sacking 

 out of damp on stout crotches, and along 

 the other a double shelf, shaped of light 

 poles resting on forked stumps, useful to 

 air the clothes and stores ; while outside, 

 where boughs overhang the bank, stand 

 the table and chair of logs. Spruce sprays 

 enough are plucked to carpet every nook 

 of the tent, elastic under a rubber sheet. 



The furnishing finished, an hour or two 



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