The Nepigon and Saguenay. 133 



streams, they do not rise readily in the 

 early morning, and the best sport may be 

 had with them in the middle of the sun- 

 shiniest day. The big 6-pounders jump 

 at the fly almost as eagerly as the young- 

 sters do, and the very largest trout are so 

 sleek and fat that they are delicious for 

 the camp table quite different from the 

 mill-pond trout of warmer waters, which 

 lose flavor and activity as soon as they 

 have passed the ounces period in their 

 lives. Side by side with the trout are 

 swarms of monstrous pike (Esox lucius), 

 and sometimes one of these will take a 

 silver-doctor fly. So will the salmon trout 

 which lurk in the tail water of deep rap- 

 ids, and so will the pike-perch if one is 

 casting the fly at night. The Nepigon 

 looks like good bass water from the fish- 

 erman's point of view, but the bass them- 

 selves say that it is too cold, and I know 

 of only two that have been caught there. 

 If we leave the best trout water to itself 

 for a while and toss the fly over still black 

 reaches where the water is ever so many 

 fathoms deep, a surprise may come to the 



