DAYS ON THE NEPIGON. 



to no one more honest love of the sport, and 

 have never witnessed any branch of outdoor 

 recreation affording greater pleasure than to 

 watch the finished artist place his flies so deli- 

 cately and accurately that the trout regarded 

 it as a compliment and considered it obliga- 

 tory to rise, strike and repent. 



It may be, as some of the old-fashioned 

 anglers designate it, a fad; and while there 

 is possibly additional adroitness connected 

 with it, results often justify its use. After 

 making all due allowance for the extravagant 

 praise of its merits, we may be confident that 

 it is destined to become, from the standpoint 

 of scientific angling and, for its achievements, 

 as popular here as with our English cousins. 

 And still better, the dry-fly angler could 

 hardly be a trout hog, even if he were so 

 inclined. 



Putting one's flies on the water like thistle- 

 down or snowflakes is unessential here on the 

 Nepigon. Nor is accuracy required on these 

 ripples and rapids. You have simply to place 



your cast approximately to where wanted, for 

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