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an eddy in the like helpless state as the one spoken of, there 

 were no appliances at hand to secure him, and he therefore 

 got off. This, however, was not so remarkable a case as 

 the one mentioned, for I had played the fish for a consi- 

 derable time before he escaped, and that in very broken 

 water ; and in addition to the leads, hooks, &c., he carried 

 away a large portion of the line itself, which must of neces- 

 sity have tended greatly to encumber his movements. 



At times I had great sport with the huge trout. In- 

 dependently of other fish, I on two or three occasions 

 captured seven, and on several occasions six of these fish 

 within the day ; weighing one with another sixteen to 

 eighteen pounds. 



One particular season I took twenty in the course of four 

 consecutive days (and what is singular, no others in that 

 time, to my knowledge, touched the bait) that weighed 

 together four hundred and fifty-two pounds, which is upwards 

 of twenty-two pounds each on the average. Their large size 

 was accounted for from their being not only in high condi- 

 tion, but all males, which, as said, are considerably larger 

 than the females. 



The fish last mentioned were taken in the upper rapids, 

 where the heavy trout chiefly congregated during the autumn ; 

 and this being the case, I was, therefore, accustomed at that 

 season to make Kallshaga situated on the left bank of the 

 Gotha, above a mile from Ronnum my chief fishing station 

 in the fall of the year. 



A friend resided here ; but the house, or rather cottage, is 

 so embosomed amongst trees, as to be but little perceptible 

 either from the river, to which it is immediately contiguous, 

 or from the high road leading from Ronnum to Wenersborg, 



