Nepigon River Fishing 



several years' experiments, till now un- 

 named, and that might be called the Nepi- 

 gon, is built after this fashion: On a thick 

 body of light blue, well tinselled, or pea- 

 cock's herl, it wears wings of English 

 blue-jay, mixed with orange from cock-of- 

 the-rock, and a hackle dyed by picric acid 

 to clear permanent yellow. The blending 

 produces green - - yet a pure green fly is 

 less successful. This fly has taken braces 

 of six and three and a half pounds, and four 

 and a half and three the latter being 

 cleverly scooped by the guide both at one 

 sweep with two landing-nets that chanced 

 to be aboard. The maker of his own flies 

 needs to bring but few, with the material 

 which he finds ample leisure to work up. 



As to the relative merits of fly-fishing 

 and bait-fishing, it may be fairly concluded 

 spurning always the spoon, for it is as 

 barbarous to kill a trout so, as to eat him 

 with one that some people prefer poetry 

 and some prose. To read anything, or to 

 fish at all, is better than doing without 

 either. 



The fish of the Nepigon are not less 

 various than abundant. To one using a 

 minnow, the pike becomes a nuisance. 

 Now and then in deep, still waters a stur- 

 geon pokes up a foot or two of straight 



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