i34 Nepigon and Saguenay Rivers. 



surface in the form of a pale trout with 

 translucent nose and fins, who shows by 

 his colors that he lives away down in the 

 gloom of bottom caverns. We must not 

 expect to catch one of these trout, but 

 once in a while there comes an hour when 

 they are all at the surface. 



Whitefish take the fly readily if one is 

 knowing enough to tempt them in a poli- 

 tic way, and they certainly belong to the 

 game fishes of America. They cannot 

 chase and capture an ordinary artificial fly, 

 but if we put half a dozen flies, tied on 

 No. 14 hooks on a single leader, and drop 

 this affair lightly among the fins that are 

 circling about at the surface in the even- 

 ing, and keep it perfectly still, pretty soon 

 the whitefish will move up to it and try 

 to pick off the small flies as daintily as a 

 red deer nips a lily bud. 



Although there are half a dozen species 

 of fish that will rise to the fly in the Nepi- 

 gon, the chief game fish of the river is 

 first and last the red-spotted square-tailed 

 brook trout. In the Saguenay the chief 

 game fish is the ouananiche, or so-called 



