BIG TROUT OF THE NEPIGON 



sions, and its depth is from twenty to two hundred and 

 fifty feet. Fontinalis has consequently ample scope 

 here for the display of all his fighting qualities. Pro- 

 fessor Wright's estimate of the size of the Nepigon fish 

 is probably based upon reports of several years ago, 

 when none but Indians fished the river, and there are 

 many modern authorities for the killing of nine and ten 

 pound brook trout in its waters. The standard flies for 

 the Nepigon are the professor, queen of the water, 

 grizzly king, gray and green drakes, Montreal, silver 

 doctor, coachman, and hackles. Even Nepigon has its 

 off days for the fly-fisher, however, and upon these the 

 phantom minnow usually does good work, though it is 

 a question whether the use of any other lure than flies 

 should not be prohibited upon this magnificent stream, 

 which has already become considerably deteriorated. 



The Michipicoten, the Jack Pine, and other streams 

 in this neighborhood are probably but little inferior to 

 the Nepigon, and it is by no means uncommon to take 

 brook trout in all of them up to five pounds in weight. 



Not only in the country north of the St. Lawrence are 

 large brook trout to be found. Six and seven pound 

 specimens have been caught in some of the rivers and 

 lakes of the Squatteck country, in the vicinity of Lake 

 Temiscouata, which is not far from the boundary of 

 New Brunswick ; while others, nearly as bulky, occur 

 in the preserves of the Megantic Fish and Game As- 

 sociation, on either side of the Maine and Quebec 

 boundary line. 



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