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The Laga is not a very early river. I was given to 

 understand indeed by Mr. Westberg, who rents a fishery 

 there, that good sport is seldom obtainable until after Mid- 

 summer. 



We have then the Nissa, a rather large river, flowing 

 past the town of Halmstad. But as salmon weirs span its 

 whole breadth near to the sea, the fish are debarred access 

 to the rapids above ; and therefore little or nothing is to be 

 done with the rod. 



The Nissa is a rather early river, and the salmon run 

 tolerably large. Numbers are smoked and sent to Gothen- 

 burg and other towns, where they are in much request. 



The Atra, at Falkenberg, the next river of conse- 

 quence, is of great celebrity amongst fishermen, salmon 

 being not only numerous therein, but rising very freely to 

 the fly. 



The great drawback in this river is that the rapids are of 

 limited extent, so that unless the fish are on the run from 

 the sea, which during droughts is not a? ways the case, the 

 fishing is soon exhausted. 



A young friend and myself, for instance, visited the 

 Atra some years ago. Between a late breakfast and an 

 early dinner, we caught seventeen salmon, or grilse, weighing 

 together near one hundred pounds ; but in the afternoon of 

 the same day, instead of something like doubling that 

 number, as we had anticipated, only a single fish was killed. 

 Indeed, during our stay at Falkenberg, which was not 

 protracted, the sport fell off from day to day. 



The Atra, which is at present rented, is an early river; 

 and fishing is, at times, to be had there even in April, 

 during which month, and that of May, one meets with the 



