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is off the reef that one gets the three, four, even 

 five pounders only the Nipigon, Steel, and 

 Agawa River know bigger fish." 



Perhaps it would be as well now as later to 

 give Mr. Alexander's word regarding flies. He 

 says: "Personally, I have the brilliant salmon 

 flies, such as Silver Doctor, Royal Coachman, 

 and even Red Ibis, the best lure for reef -casting. 

 One beloved and battered Parmachenee Belle 

 that now, in it: honorable scars of battle, looks 

 like a last season's picture-hat, has brought a 

 dozen trout from Elysium in the green depths. 

 The sport of reef-fishing lies, perhaps, upon the 

 length of line upon which one gets the fish, the 

 facility for casting, and the amazing gaminess 

 and ferocity of the fish. It appears to be the 

 consensus of passably expert opinion among 

 Superior fishermen that the best reef -fishing is 

 to be found off the rocks at the entrance of the 

 little Pic River. But, literally, everywhere 

 there is reef fis!iing." 



Not often do I give my readers so lengthy a 

 quotation, but Mr. Alexander so thoroughly 

 covers the matter of Superior trout fishing, which 

 really is the last word in lake fishing for speckled 

 trout, that I make no apologies. I might well 

 have devoted a whole chapter to the subject, for 



