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there is a still better one at from twenty to thirty miles 
up. Ata distance of about sixty to seventy miles from the 
mouth, there is a foss where I heard that salmon were 
very plentiful, and that the river was always clear 
there; but that unluckily it cannot be fished from 
a boat, and the rocks are so high that if you hook 
a fish from land you cannot gaff him. Very few 
Englishmen seem to have tried this river. One has 
noted in the book at Lund’s (1857) that he had had 
good sport. But nobody seems to have tried up by 
the above-named foss. The great drawback to the 
Reisen is evidently the mud. I know but too well 
from experience what a plague that is, especially in 
the short salmon season of the north. If I ever come 
back there I will try and get above the source of the 
mud, up to the foss, and see whether it be not possible 
to fish the pool. I should think there would be but 
little chance of sport before the end of June.” 
The steamer stops at Skjerve Island, about twenty 
miles from the mouth of the river. This island is of 
tolerable size, containing the parish church and the 
parsonage house. There is good ryper shooting in 
the neighbourhood. 
Skipotn Envy, in Lynge Fjord, is a nice river, and 
is well worth a trial; there is a station here. Also 
Bats Fsorp Envy, not far distant. They are both 
small univers, but hold salmon. 
