134 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 



