CHAPTER XIII. 



SALMON AND TROUT FISHING. 



SALMON abound in all the Scandinavian rivers, from the 

 extreme south of Sweden to the North Cape; and should 

 a man gain access to streams of note, he may meet with 

 amusement to satiety. 



" Sometimes," writes Sir Hyde Parker, " I have had so 

 much sport with salmon, as to occasion indifference whether 

 I fished any more for a week. This I do not hold to be 

 good. To enjoy sport thoroughly, a man should earn it, 

 as you do your bears. But at the present day, it is not 

 altogether an easy matter to command a first-rate stream. 

 In Norway " and he might have included Sweden " every 

 man is now a fisherman, and many of the waters are hired, 

 so that it is difficult to get a cast to yourself; and I 

 consider the game nearly up, at least for an old one like 

 myself, and not worth going the distance. There are few 



