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trouble whatever. And as during the summer, one is much 

 on the water in this country, it is just as well to have such 

 a bait hanging at the end of your boat as not. Large trout 

 are often also taken in this way, and I have caught perch 

 above four pounds ; but the real trout or salmon fisher will 

 always spin his bait with a rod, and use a natural bleak 

 when he can get it. I may mention that in all the lakes 

 and rivers in the interior, spinning is almost the only kind of 

 fishing adopted, and a good spinner with proper tackle, will 

 be able to catch lake trout, pike, jack, and perch, in any 

 waters where they are to be found. A fly rod and tackle 

 may be taken as an accompaniment, but all the heavy work 

 will be done by spinning; and I may add that half the 

 success of the fisherman will depend upon his boat, and the 

 man who rows him ; for most of the fishing in the interior 

 has to be done from a boat. 



Every lake and river is full of perch, and the common 

 English fresh water fish, and the bottom fisher will find as 

 much sport as in England, in almost any water here. There- 

 fore I need say no more, than that his good English tackle 

 will be all that he will require, and a small punt, at about 

 a cost of 15s., which he can manage himself, will render him 

 independent, and afford him many a quiet hour's amusement 

 wherever he is stationed. 



I shall have a few more words to say respecting fishing 

 at the end of this chapter ; but as what I liave written above 

 is indispensable for the fisherman to know before starting, 

 I thought it best to put it in, at the beginning of the 

 chapter, where it will have more chance of being read. 



The reader will find further on in this chapter, a list of 

 both game birds and animals met with in Sweden, with 

 the localities which they frequent, and a little information 

 respecting the methods adopted for their capture. I shall 

 here, therefore, only state briefly that when a man is once 

 settled in the country, he will have no difficulty in obtain- 

 ing shooting and fishing in almost any district, but he 

 must make up his mind to be content with moderate 

 sport. The best and wildest shooting is certainly to be 



