BIG TROUT OF THE NEPIGON 



salmonoids the reader is referred to the 

 present writer's monograph on "Angling 

 in Canadian Waters," in the sumptuous 

 new work of Dr. F. M. Johnson now 

 in press. 



Whether taken out of brackish water 

 in the estuary of some Eastern salmon 

 river, clad in silvery sheen, or from the 

 deep water of some large lake, where 

 the fish is found in its darkest of dark 

 green and olive and crimson apparel, or 

 from the rapid of a clear, cold stream, 

 where its coat of many colors rejoices 

 in the brightest and most brilliantly 

 tinted spots, the angler who feasts his 

 eyes upon the newly caught monster 

 char of Northern waters will readily 

 admit, that, though God might have 

 made a more beautiful object than the 

 American brook trout, yet doubtless 

 God never did, and his heart will be 



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